[nfbwatlk] A Day of Frustrations!

[kris Lawrence]

LOL! Ah yes... I tell my kids the same thing...Do as I say, not as I do. 
But yes, I think this person needs a bit of a wake up call.

Kris

Carl Jarvis wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> For openers you could go to the person and tell them exactly what you just 
> told us.
> Most of us have run into folks like this.  I knew a fellow who claimed to be 
> totally blind, "All I see is grey".  But he could touch your clothes and 
> "feel the color".  One day he walked into my wife's office and put his 
> folding cane on the corner of her desk, and then went on into another office 
> for a meeting.  She was a bit miffed and tossed his cane on a table behind 
> her.  When he exited the meeting he walked over to the table, picked up his 
> cane and left.
> I should have confronted him at some point, but never worked up the nerve. 
> Isn't it funny?  He certainly had his nerve, but I couldn't confront him. 
> What I did instead was to avoid being around him.
> So, Chris, this is a case of, "Do as I say, not as I did".
>
> Carl Jarvis
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kris Lawrence" <kris.lawrence at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:32 PM
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] A Day of Frustrations!
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>> OK, so the first thing with Amtrak wasn't bad enough. Now get this
>> blindness related story.
>>
>> A person who has a good amount of residual vision, pretended to be
>> totally blind. They used this farce to ask a gentleman if they could
>> "touch his face to see what he looks like". The gentleman refused saying
>> he was married and did not feel comfortable with such intimate contact.
>> He was also perfectly aware that while this person may have a vision
>> problem, they were not totally blind. I am also aware that this person
>> has a fair amount of residual vision and am embarrassed for them that
>> they (1) tried to perpetuate a common misunderstanding and (2) this
>> person made such a poor choice in judgement.
>>
>> I am also a bit angry with this person. This type of behavior makes it
>> more difficult for those of us who are partially sighted. There are
>> expectations from both sides of the fence (blind and sighted) that those
>> who have residual vision have to deal with. The lack of integrity that
>> this person shows, the lack of understanding what their actions do to
>> the blind community as a whole, makes it very difficult to communicate
>> with them. What suggestions do you have?
>>
>>
>> Kris
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