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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: 2 May 91 17:29:56 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Stew,

You say that is our responsibility as blind people to teach the
sighted public about ourselves.  At what cost?  Should I allow this
individual to make me late for work or school?  Should I allow this
individual to interrupt an important conversation at a restaurant
or important library research just so they can satisfy their
curiosity?

If I'm approached while waiting for a bus or while riding the bus,
no problem.  I'm not busy, just waitig like everyone else.  But I
have a life to live!  I have things to accomplish just like those
sighted people you want me to teach.  Shouldn't one of the first
things that we teach others be this fact?  Shouldn't we teach
sighted people that we, too, have goals, jobs, places to go?

I'm not advocating rudeness, just a little courtesy for the sighted
person as well as the blind one.

-> MegaMail v2.01 #0:Consider what I have not said.

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