If a trait or a characteristic feature of a person remains inseparable from his/her personality -such as being Black African American or Hispanic- then it certainly becomes his/her identity.
Of course, blindness isn't someone's race or community identity, but certainly it is part of the physical trait and so, it is highly unlikely that it will be ignored if the mainstream world comes to interact with the person with blindness. As far the other connotations of blindness, we all know that we don't refer to them in the context of addressing someone who has the physical problem of not seeing, because it is obvious that being blind here would refer to the physical condition, not other things. Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Use disability not handicap *********************** No virus was detected in the attachment no filename Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. *********************** Dear Listers, The views expressed here are of course my personal-hence they cannot be final truth. However, I do not agree that 'blindness' is our identity. Blindness cannot be only a blind man's sole birthright or first right because there are many other types like religious blind, politically blind, rationally blind, mental blind & so on. Our sole identity is as an individual human as we are being which others cannot replicate. Are we not narrowing our scope in human psychology with somewhat like fanaticism? Somebody rightly said we have to change the meaning of blind related to us rather than adopting it for our .... Next, to prepare a pedestal we have to erect a groundwork/structure first like in order to become literate, alphabets are the basics. On the same line, unless we begin using/hearing healthy words defining us, our groundwork of whole frame of healthy atmosphere for a VC remains undone. As far surety of 'nicety' champions using the same in the absence, the best answer is: 'if we try risk we may fail, without trying we ensure it'. Regds, 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.i n 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
