[bookshare-discuss] Re: ot blindisms et al
- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:38:28 -0400
Nice. <g>
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From: Suzanne Wilson
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ot blindisms et al
Hi all,
If you don't like very slightly off color language, stop reading right now.
The former director of my college's disabled students' office told me this
story from her own experience. Someone came up to her in a ladies- room and
asked her who helped her get dressed in the morning. Her reply: "The same
person who just wiped my ass."
Sue
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From: Rose Combs
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ot blindisms et al
In 1999 my husband took a job that required him to work graveyards.
Shortly after he did so at least three coworkers, medical transcriptionists are
generally intelligent, asked me how I was getting dressed and combing my hair
so nicely in the morning when I was alone. They seemed to think my husband
dressed me, combed my hair and then brought me to work. When I said I'd been
performing all my dressing and personal grooming since I was a child and that I
could take a cab to work they seemed to think that was amazing. I had worked
with a couple of them for more than 20 years and never realized they thought I
did nothing but type medical reports.
Rose Combs
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From: Patti Johnson [mailto:pat1206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:16 AM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ot blindisms et al
Oh goodness, I suppose I could write a book a bout this, the strangeness
of the questions and the assumptions.
Some one at work asked me who dresses me in the mornings.
Oh and of course the real frustrating assumption that you are somebody
else. A lady who worked in the same courthouse as I did retired several years
before I did.
A year after she did I got off the bus one morning and some one came up to
me and said, "What are you doing here, I thought you retired."
I said back, "I wish."
They only see the dog or in our case one time, just the harness when they
thought I was her, and our dogs didn't look anything alike and neither did we.
Very weird stuff.
Patti
Throw all your worries on Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 5-7,
Good News for Modern Man, Today's English Version
----- Original Message -----
From: E.
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] ot blindisms et al
I think some people think they can ask questions of a blind person
they would not ask of a sighted individual.
They say they are just curious.
I have people ask me unbelievable personal questions and then get
angry i would not talk about whatever or when I said i thought the
subject a personal one.
Such questions include
How much money to you make?
Do you have sex often (or with how many or with only blind people or
whatever)
Why don't you marry a sighted person?
Why don't you get married?
Why don't you want children?
How do you know when you get your period? (asked by a stranger)
Elizabeth (E.)
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