[blindkid] Identify yourself please

[Carol Castellano]

I would say Serena was around Jordan's age when she finally decided 
to find out who she was talking to!  She now automatically smiles and 
says pleasantly, "Who's that?"  People get that that mean they should 
identify themselves.
Carol

At 09:45 AM 11/21/2008, you wrote:
>Hi All, Especially to our blind colleagues and friends.
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>I have one thing with Jordan that has improved but still is an "issue". I
>think it bugs me way more than him, and likely that is why it is still an
>"issue".
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>Jordan often does not ask people to identify themselves. It is one thing,
>and understandable to me, when he is in the very crowded school hallways and
>some voice calls out, "hey Jordan!" in a passing greeting and he simply
>calls back hey-but has no idea who that hey came from and to not yell out in
>a crowd "hey who are you?",
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>  But there are many times.
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>At the state fair, in a store, even at a lunch room table!, where he THINKS
>he is talking to one person and discovers mid-conversation that is not who
>he is talking with (and never says anything or finds in the end who it was),
>or we walk away from the teen working the register or who has come up in
>Best Buy and said "hello" and I ask "Who was that?" and he says I have no
>idea.  I know that sometimes because he is one of 3,000 at school-and
>because he has the one and only thing, a lot more people know who he is than
>vice versa and sometimes he really doesn't know who they are, but not
>uncommonly it is evident the kid who is greeting him, he should know, but he
>doesn't ask. I know that sometimes he thinks it is rude, if the other kid
>thinks Jordan should know who they are.the same way if I forget someone's
>name and I should definitely know it, and I am thinking how can I ask
>without offending?...But many times he is just too "shy" about it. I have
>seen on the student list before threads where lots of kids are somewhat
>uncomfortable with this one. Any strategies that you blind folks have come
>up with to gain the confidence or decide when to do it? Is it just a
>personality thing, because I know many blind folks who are not shy about it
>and simply say, "Who are you?"
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>Should I just let this one go now as a mom-especially since he is now a
>senior in high school?
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>Carrie Gilmer, President
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>National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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>A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
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>NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
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>Home Phone: 763-784-8590
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>carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
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>www.nfb.org/nopbc
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