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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: Re: BLINDNESS AND THE BLINDFOLD
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Date: 6 Nov 90 14:07:21 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 SP> Actually, this is to David, Paula, et al, who are part of this  
 SP> thread. As a sighted person, I have felt a little like a do on  
 SP> the street when a blind person passes, that is to say, curious  
 SP> about what your experi- ence is like. Obviously, wearing a  
 SP> blindfold for awhile won't tell me much about that; only a  
 SP> blind person can do that. And I don't know any blind people,  
 SP> other than you all. So maybe rather than arguing about the  
 SP> value of "blindfold" experiments, you could tell this sighted  
 SP> per- son something concrete about what day-to-day life is like  
 SP> for you -- you know, family, work, social life, meeting people,  
 SP> and so on. Look- ing forward to hearing from you. Steve  
 

My day to day life is shaped more by the things I do then by my
blindness.  I try to be a person first, and a bling person second.
I get up, go to work, come home, use my computer, play with my cat,
cook, listen to music, read etc.  I am not trying to be cute or
avoid answering, I am not quite sure what to say.  I am reluctant
to focus on my blindness as the central point of my life.  Yes
there are little frustrations, and I use a reader, and
driver/errand helper, but blindness is only one part of my life,
and not the largest part though.  As you read BlinkTalk over a
period of time, you will get a feel for our experiences and see
that we are all different, we disagree and/or agree, some of us are
nice guys, like me, and some of us are jerks.  All in all we are
about like everybody else.  To prove that, someone will disagree
with this message, so here we go.

David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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