Dear Friends, I agree with what Ketan Sir has said in his mail on this subject.
It does not matter what we call ourselves, whether it be blind or visually challenged or something else. What matters is whether we allow our blindness to stunt our growth or we accept the hand that fate has dealt us and try to make the best use of our abilities. Regards Sameer Latey Mumbai, India Mob. 9867414004 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ketan Kothari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Members pl take note of using blind in communication > Dear Members, > > I think I am blind and not visually challenged. As far as politeness is > concerned, we are taken up by these clichaes and let the reality go by. I > think the word "blind" explains my total lack of sight than any other word. > besides. What would you call a short man/woman? vertically challenged? I > feel we would do well by facing the reality. I would say if at all all the > disabled are attitudinally challenged. We educated people who are blind > should not run away from the fact of our blindness. Let me reiterate I am > not ashamed of being blind and would not like to sugar quote my situation. > > Friends, I started as "blind" then "visually handicapped" then "visually > disabled" and then again "visually challenged" but at the enc of the day I > am still beaten up as "blind agitators" hahaha. words became polite but no > change in attitude. So friend, this group is a group of learned members and > I look at all of you as realists and not a clichaed group So let us call a > spade a spade. Let us not be taken up by Americans. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rajani G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:41 AM > Subject: [AI] Members pl take note of using blind in communication > > > > Dear members, > > I hope many of you on the list agree with me that it is better that we > > atleast do not or stop using the word Blind and start using visually > > challenged in our conversation. I feel the phrase is more polite and > > doesnot hurt the feelings who are visually challenged. > > let us try to use it in our communication. > > Rajani > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the subject unsubscribe. > > > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > > please visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
