[nfbwatlk] A Day of Frustrations!

[marty]

sounds like a simple goof up with responses to the different e mails. 
happens sometimes with so much to think about. m.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kris Lawrence" <kris.lawrence at comcast.net>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] A Day of Frustrations!


> Lisa,
>
> I believe you may have misunderstood my question.
>
> I know we have to deal with those overly helpful souls. Nothing new there.
>
> My question deals with what to do with this person who has quite a lot
> of residual vision, but for some reason felt it was o.k. to pretend they
> were totally blind and that it was o.k. to perpetuate the common
> misunderstanding that all blind people want to feel a persons face to
> "see" what they look like.
>
> Kris
>
> Owenblue2 at aol.com wrote:
>> Well Kris, I have residual vision also. I understand how you feel. Today 
>> a woman insisted on helping me weather I wanted it or not. It was clear 
>> she had no idea how to behave around a blind person. Unfortunately she 
>> just didn't want to hear me refuse her help.
>>
>> What to do? Sometimes all of us can over react to someone just trying to 
>> help. I think any blind personcan over react to a stressful situation if 
>> applied with peace and kindness think tolerance and patience can work 
>> inalmost any situation. Sometimes that's a tall order especially when all 
>> we want to do is bang their collective heads together.
>>
>> Lisa
>>
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