[stylist] New Book, blindness on TV

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

It's called Growing Up Fisher starting February 23 on NBC.

Bridgit

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When does this show come on, what channel, and what is it about?
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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Henrietta
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You guys make me laugh. You're right, Sighted people can't imagine the
blind being the hero. At Christmas, when the power was out in our town,
I had twenty five or thirty people here most days. We had a generator so
we had a few lights but not in more then half the house. 

I didn't think much of it while everyone was here. Though I was tired of
doing all the fetching because no one could find anything in the dark.
When everyone left and I was cleaning house, I saw how difficult it was
for our guests. They had only a flashlight in the bathroom and their
bedroom and nothing was where it should be. 

they all mention now, that they will call me in any black out. But it
took reality to get even family to realize that a blind person can be
helpful in a black out. lol Henrietta On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:10 AM,
Bridgit Pollpeter
wrote:

> When I wrote a short mystery story for a detective fiction class I
> took at university, I made my main character blind, which is the first

> time I did this. Anyway, at one point, the house the two main 
> characters are sleeping in goes up in flames, and the blind character 
> navigates them out of the house. Using his other senses, he makes it 
> out the front door. I did do some research before writing the scene, 
> but mostly based it off my own knowledge of what a blind person might 
> do in that particular situation. When critiqueing our stories, a 
> classmate said, to my face, it wasn't believeable that a blind person 
> could do that and I should change that scene. Another classmate, to my

> surprise, said who better than a blind person to navigate through a 
> situation where sight wouldn't be much help because of the smoke, and 
> that by smell and feeling heat, surely a blind person would be able to

> navigate just as well, if not better, than a sighted person. After 
> considering this point, the first person half-heartedly agreed. My 
> point being that I agree with Chris that even though these stories are

> being written by blind people, most of the sighted world can't, or 
> won't, buy a blind person doing the things we make them do, living as 
> independent, active, vital people.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
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> Kuell
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:47 AM
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> 
> 
> Donna,
> 
> I'm generally skeptical by nature, but I really hope they do a good
> job with this show. It's exactly what we've been talking about 
> here--an opportunity to crush the stupid stereotypes and let the 
> public see a guy who is interesting, and just happens to be blind. If 
> it does a good job, and if the public enjoys it, it could open the 
> door to more blind characters in the
> 
> arts. Personally, I feel certain that the reason books like yours and
> mine aren't getting read by agents and traditional publishers is 
> because we have blind protagonists. An agent, or more likely, an 
> agent's assistant reads my query and thinks--a blind protagonist? 
> Nobody is going to buy that. It's too outside mainstream experience.
> 
> Hopefully, the times, they are a changing.
> 
> chris
> 
> 
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