[blindlaw] Pimp My Cane

[Aziza Cano]

Not necessarily. Sighted people do things that just make you know their 
sighted, like point, wave, exclaim over the color of something, without 
realizing it. It would take a lot of discipline for a sighted person who 
doesn't know much about blindness to pull it off...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Clark" <goldflash9 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane


> Actually it would be pretty easy to fool a blind person -- they can't see 
> what the person is doing and how well or poorly the person is pulling it 
> off.  The more difficult thing is to fool a sighted person that is very 
> accustomed to how a blind person operates, i.e. a sighted spouse of a 
> blind person.  I have heard of at least a couple of instances of people 
> doing this.
> Personally I don't see the benefit, but clearly they are getting something 
> out of it, in a defective sort of way.
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark BurningHawk" <stone_troll at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane
>
>
>> Ummm, hello? There's a *LOT* more to "impersonating a blind person," 
>> than carrying a white cane.  I defy anyone who is sighted to pull that 
>> off well enough to fool a blind person.
>>
>> Mark BurningHawk
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>> Namaste!
>>
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