[nagdu] Social Acceptance of Disability (was Re: update on my work question)

Tue May 20 21:34:54 UTC 2014

Hi Buddy,

	If I lost my mind and decided to do a PhD at my age, it would indeed
be an interesting dissertation subject.
Darla & Hardworking Huck

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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan via
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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:21 PM
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Subject: [nagdu] Social Acceptance of Disability (was Re: update on my work
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Of course, how smart someone is isn't really determined by GPA. I know some
pretty dumb people who have high GPA's. I was talking with someone this
afternoon, and she theorizes that it's not so much to do with that as it is
to do with some feeling of being "special" or some such thing, somehow above
us mere mortals. Back to high school, she mentioned the jocks, who seemed to
have the same sort of problem with acceptance as the crowd I mentioned, and
that would definitely fall in line with her theory. We decided we likely
wouldn't solve it today, but that someone should do a study or something.
There's probably some organization that would fund such a thing. 
On May 15, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Nicole Torcolini via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I don't know, but I am inclined to not think so. I think that what 
> matters most is personality , and personality, at least in my 
> experiences, does not tend to influence or be influenced by how smart 
> someone is. Okay, yes, perhaps some people who are not as smart are 
> nicer because they are not self centered and obsessed with being the 
> best, but, that being said, I have met smart people who are nice and 
> not so smart people who are not nice, so it goes either way.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy 
> Brannan via nagdu
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:33 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] update on my work question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Education by action is the best kind of education. Clearly, in your 
> case, it works a treat. And, more importantly, they're as educated as 
> they need to be. The how and why doesn't matter, clearly your 
> coworkers see results, and that's what they care about. That's the best
thing ever.
> 
> To tell you the truth, I think it's possible to be *too* educated.
> Sometimes, it's those smart people that often have the hardest 
> time.has anyone else ever noticed that? Like, in school, it seemed 
> like it was easier to make friends with the people who was the more 
> average students, maybe the ones that weren't really academic? Seems 
> that those were the people who had more common sense going on 
> upstairs, the ones who, if they wanted to know something about you, 
> they'd just plain old ask, and otherwise everyone got on with life. 
> The so-called A students, the ones in the AP classes that did really 
> well, you know, the ones who would argue about why they got a 95 
> instead of a 97, coincidentally, the ones I was in lots of classes 
> with, just didn't know what to do with us. This of course has 
> absolutely nothing to do with education or, I guess, much of anything
else, but I still wonder if it's really a thing or not.
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or (814) 431-0962
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Julie J. via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to all of you!  Yes, my employer is super supportive of me as 
>> a
> blind person, but really it isn't a big deal.  I know this sounds kind 
> of backwards, but I have never had in depth conversations with anyone 
> in my office about Braille, guide dogs, accessible technology or 
> general blindness.  I just do what I need to to do and take care of my 
> job responsibilities and it's all good.  I guess perhaps that's 
> education by action?  I don't know.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how educated any of them are about blindness and what 
>> guide
> dogs do exactly.  I'm not sure that it matters to them.  I show up and get
> stuff done, so they are happy.  It works.   I don't think the details of
the
> how are so important as the results.
>> Julie
>> 
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