[nfbmi-talk] On Body Language

[Larry D. Keeler]

I am totally blind as well.  I have a sighted son, a deaf daughter and a sighted wife.  I'm not putting anyone down, I'm just making the point that you can not pretend that body language doesn't exist.  You have to realize that sighted folks have some advantages that we do not.  They can be carrying on one conversation and having a different one with there body language.  I think blind people are doing themselves a disservice if they ignore the existance of body language altogether.  I have trained myself to use and be conscious of how my body language is percieved.  It has been 35 years sence I could see and even then, I couldn't see good enough to read faces.  I could only get extreme gestures.  Being aware of body language is sort of being atune to colors.  I would know that as a guy, I would never wear lavender pants and a yellow shirt!  The last time I saw those colors I was ten.  If I had nnever saw them though, i would have sertainly have gathered the information that tells me, that's not good!  nd Believe me its not!  
Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!