[NFBMO] An oldie but goodie: Meet the Sighted Month

[Randy C]

Along those same lines, here is a video that our national office made for
April 1, 2015.  I really like it and think it is very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W-P3afHyrY&list=PL3G3MDz4ZJ-nHHFNSPG0ap88-e1lS56Na

Randy

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM Daniel Garcia via NFBMO <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm20/bm2003/bm200318.htm
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> An Apology to a Fine Humorist and One of Our Own
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> by Gary Wunder
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> In the November 2019 issue we ran an article entitled “Meet the Sighted
> Month” and said it had been seen floating around Facebook. Well we should
> have been smart enough to know that nothing floats around Facebook without
> an author, and how wonderful it is to find that the author is none other
> than Angela Fowler, a wonderful mother, humorist, and Federationist. We
> apologize for running her article without attribution and take the
> opportunity to share it once again, this time giving credit where it is
> deserved.
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> Meet the Sighted Month
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> by Angela Fowler
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> October is Meet the Sighted Month. Throughout the month, sighted people
> will hold events where we can mix and mingle and learn about the special
> equipment and techniques they use to cope with the presence of eyesight.
> Also, many sighted people will post invitations on Facebook encouraging us
> to ask them questions, any questions we want, about their sightedness. To
> kick off Meet the Sighted Month, I have put together this list of things to
> keep in mind when interacting with the sighted.
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> Sighted people are often incapable of traveling, cooking, or doing much of
> anything without the aid of light. While we use our other senses to enable
> us to function perfectly well in the dark, sighted people have great
> difficulty developing these skills. When you welcome the sighted into your
> home, don't forget to turn on the lights.
>
> Sighted people often cannot understand synthesized speech, and the text on
> a Braille display is almost always unreadable to them. They must depend on
> special equipment such as computer monitors and phone and tablet screens to
> use their electronic devices. If you let a sighted person use your phone or
> computer and forget to turn the screen on, they will be very confused.
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> Sighted people have difficulty learning from textual and verbal
> explanations or tactile models. They often must be presented with pictures.
> A good rule of thumb, when writing instructions for the sighted, is to
> include a picture with each step.
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> Sighted people have great difficulty distinguishing auditory cues in their
> environment. While we can tell when to cross a street by the sound of
> traffic or where an entrance is by the sounds of people entering and
> exiting, sighted people often must rely on visual information alone.
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> Sighted people rely heavily on an inaudible code called color. They use
> color to safely navigate by car and perform countless other tasks we can
> perform using auditory and tactile cues. Also, they are often quick to
> judge us based on what colors we present to the world. It is important to
> gain at least a working knowledge of color, so they don’t think we’re weird.
>
> Sighted people often communicate displeasure using a secret signal called
> a dirty look. I’ll admit, I’m not exactly sure what this entails, except
> that it sometimes causes sighted people to behave in ways which seem
> inappropriate to the situation, i.e. telling someone off for no apparent
> reason. As blind people immune to the effects of the dirty look, we can
> only try to teach the sighted to use their words when communicating
> displeasure with us.
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> So, there you have it. Keep these points in mind, and your next encounter
> with a sighted person should be as smooth as a brand new NFB cane tip.
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> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
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