[stylist] writing about blindness

[Judith Bron]

No.  People who are handicapped in any way are never looked at the same way 
the non-handicapped world is looked at.
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> "Mesh the blind world with the sighted?" Aren't the two worlds meshed by
> default?
>
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> It's not hard to figure.  I guess it's where your interests lie and how 
> you
> look at your writing.  My interests, as is reflected in my work, is with 
> the
> handicapped.  However, I don't mesh the blind world with the sighted one 
> in
> my writing.
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>>I guess it depends on your frame of mind at the time of writing. While
>>blind  fiction writers can depict blind characters obviously far more
>>accurately  than sighted fiction writers, we limit ourselves if we
>>stick exclusively  to  blind characters or blindness issues.
>> As for articles, I've been writing about a lot of blindness related
>>stuff  lately. Its funny, I went into my historical research and
>>writing class  vowing I was going to write about anything but a
>>blindness issue, and  ended  up writing about the way the ADA effects
>>blind people. Go figure.
>>
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>> On Behalf Of Aziza
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>> I don't write about being blind either. I mean unless it's my articles.
>> But
>> when I write storries, all my characters can see, and have other
>> problems they must overcome in their lives.
>> I don't think it's denial at all.
>> Aziza
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
>> To: "Stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:51 AM
>> Subject: [stylist] writing about blindness
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>>
>>> I'm not in denial nor do I ignore the fact that I do have a handicap
>>> that I have to overcome on a daily basis.  However, when I am writing
>>> I seem to go into a different world.  I write about people who are
>>> ill, some of my characters die and others fall into the clutches of
>>> bad people.  If I say that blindness bores me, you might come out
>>> with an arms length of causes for my symptoms.  However, a person
>>> does not necessarily want to write about those things they live with
>>> and rise above on a daily basis.  I am fat.  Writing about being fat
>>> falls under
>> the same category as blind.
>>> Live with it.  Fight against it as much as possible, but it shouldn't
>>> dominate every facet of your life.  Again, you may think I'm in some
>>> kind of denial, but I'm not.  I won't drive a car into a crowd, try
>>> sewing a garment while it is on the back of my would be victim and I
>>> won't pretend to read the paper when I can't even make out one
>>> picture in the blasted thing.  Judith
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