[stylist] question

[Barbara Hammel]

I've wondered the same thing.  It's not a war we're fighting.  And yet if 
the "enemy" needs a name, it's called sighted.  Now the whole group of 
sighted folk are not the "enemy" but most could easily be convinced to be. 
Somewhere a vary significant person once said, as his life was ebbing, 
"forgive them for they know not what they do."  Most folks are ignorant and 
that leads them to be prejudice.
All we can do is keep teaching.  Did you learn more from being taught or 
being fought?  One of my sons has a supported community living worker.  This 
is a person who comes into your home and teaches your child how to do any 
number of skills.  She sometimes takes him out in the community--she does 
this with older clients to work on money management and such.  We went to a 
swimming pool that is at a home for handicapped children.  She was very 
surprised at the way those people who worked with handicapped children all 
the time treated me.  You know, looked at her for names and expected her to 
pay.
Did I get mad?  I just informed this young lady about how the sighted world 
treats blind people sometimes.  She was shocked.  She has a Down's cousin so 
for as long as she can remember she's been exposed to someone not quite like 
everyone else.  I really think that's the important thing.  If people grow 
up around people who are different, they are more open to accepting all 
kinds of differentness.  Sometimes the reverse is true because like John 
said, we all have minds.  It is amazing how that thing works--and also how 
it doesn't.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:13 AM
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] question

> Why do we have to copy social movements that are made up of eighty percent 
> common sense?  Why can't we just keep on living to the best of our 
> abilities?  Why can't we set goals, attain them and live our lives in ways 
> that are comfortable for us without  placating some political or social 
> movement?  Why does blindness or any other disability have to be 
> classified and recognized as an "ism" in order to recognize the fact that 
> those afflicted with a particular disability are equal to any other 
> disability? Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
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> Unfortunately, "blindism" usually refers to mannerisms shown by some blind
> people whose parents didn't stop their children from doing it early on, 
> such as
> rocking, and digging fingers into blind eyes.
> So that one is out.
> Lori
> In a message dated 3/24/09 1:50:56 AM, johnlee at clarktouch.com writes:
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>> I mean, what would the civil rights movement have been like if there was 
>> no
>> word for racism? What would be the feminist movement be without the word
>> sexism? What would the Deaf Pride movement be without the word audism?
>>
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