[stylist] writing about blindness

[Judith Bron]

In the early part of the twentieth century you didn't see textbooks that 
taught about Black people.  The black population, at that time, was not 
integrated into the white population.  White's were normal, and blacks were 
looked at as, who knows?  The better we understand that which we cannot 
comprehend, the more integrated society becomes.
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From: "Aziza" <acwaterreader09 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] writing about blindness


>I suppose I could write about blind people better, but I read a lot of 
>fiction books, and most of them have sighted characters. I draw from those 
>descriptions, also in class, you don't see the teacher teaching many texts 
>with blind people in them. I think I can write about fiction sighted 
>characters as well as I can blind fiction characters. I may of course be 
>wrong.
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> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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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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>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Aziza
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:00 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] writing about blindness
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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
>>
>>
>>> 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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