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From: Nancy.Feldman@f605.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Nancy Feldman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: stupidity
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:16:59 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

SK> I hate the way sighted people are so uneducated in the blind.
SK> i have had people ask me how i dial the phone. if i shave my
SK> self. and why do you go to movies.
SK> i was  at the movies the other night with a friend.
SK> and the tickit taker said i admir you for coming hear.
SK> i felt insulted just because i am blind means i sould not go to
SK> movie. does he expect  me to sit around the house and feel sorry
SK> for myself.

I used to be bugged by the questions sighted people ask, but I
guess after 24 years of it I have become desensitized.  Either that
or I have found enough sharp retorts to embarrass those with really
stupid questions.

I, too, go to the movies; quite regularly.  My husband and other
friends are very good about describing things for me.  They have
learned just what needs describing and what doesn't.

But usually when someone says, "How do you dial the phone" or "How
can you change a diaper" or "Do you really fiddle around inside
your computer?  How brave!"  I usually say:  "Yes, I can do that;
and I can do it in the dark, can you?"

-> MegaMail v2.01 #0:Lumpy and grumpy and proud of it!

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