[Ohio-talk] DON'T YOU JUST HATE THIS!

[Robert Spangler]

Hi JW, I totally share in your irritation, as does most everyone else on
this list I'm sure, which is why it's such a great forum for airing out
these frustrations.  Another one I get often is that I am faking blindness.
I guess I should take this one as a compliment, as it must mean that I get
around very well.  On the other hand, it's insulting because it is an
expression of how that person must think totally blind people navigate.  

At the bar the other night, some guy told me that he wanted to know how I
experience life.  Obviously, I knew what he meant but I purposely played
dumb.  I told him that I experience it like anyone else; I get up in the
morning, go to work, repeat that several times then go out on the weekends
or stay home.  I told him that if he had specific questions on how I do
things just to be direct and ask; I have no time nor the desire to deal with
people who like to beat around the bush or refer to my blindness as "being
like that."

I also seem to experience these types of interactions when I'm not in the
greatest of moods.  There are insistent, annoying people but I try very hard
to remind myself that most people are just ignorant and a lot of times
there's probably a more underlying problem with that person and their social
skills.

Robby

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Subject: [Ohio-talk] DON'T YOU JUST HATE THIS!

After my visit to my doctor yesterday, I was sitting in the reception area
waiting for my ride and a gentleman asked me if I was blind and after I
confirmed his suspicions, he told me just how sorry he was that I was blind
at least 5 times in about 7 minutes!

No matter how many times I told him that life was good and that he should
not feel that way he kept on saying it.

Needless to say, I was not unhappy when he was called for his appointment
before my ride came for me.

I don't know about you but I get so tired of these kind of exchanges and
interactions and they seem to happen when my patience is fairly low!

Oh well, there are none so blind as those that will not see or who refuse to
understand that one can have a productive and satisfying life even without
physical sight.

GOOD GOD!

Jw

Dr. jw Smith
School of Communication Studies
Scripps College of Communication
Schoonover Center, Rm. 427
Athens, OH 45701
smithj at ohio.edu<mailto:smithj at ohio.edu>
T: 740-593-4838


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