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

[Robert Spangler]

Barbara, you are absolutely right.  When I'm in a great mood, I just shake it off and say something like, "Nah, it's just a different skillset." But when I'm annoyed you can definitely tell in my tone and I'm a little more short with people.  It's tough; I guess I can attribute it to being human.

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I suspect that we are aggravated by these interactions when we are in a bad mood already, and they just roll off our backs when we are feeling good. 

Please pay attention to Editor’s Musings in the upcoming newsletter. It may give you a place to write down and use constructively one of these anecdotes.

Barbara
Barbara Pierce
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> On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:13 PM, Robert Spangler via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Smith, JW via Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:44 AM
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> Cc: Smith, JW <smithj at ohio.edu>
> 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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