Here’s a blessing of blindness that sales managers envy
Whenever you talk about a thing like blindness, the first thing that comes to mind is the negatives. Even the blind people (and I’m not generalizing) who’re usually positive are made to feel quite defencive about their disability, not because they lack self-belief, but because people around them perpetrate the belief that they’ve remarkably fewer abilities. It might sound ridiculous, but I’ve been asked things like “do you shave on your own,” and even “do you bathe yourself?” Such questions usually come from those who haven’t met a blind person; those who think that blindness make us a lesser of a human being and diminishes our intelligence. Even otherwise, human beings universally are conditioned to think that blindness is a disability, a serious limitation that impairs a person’s ability to function in most situations. Which may be true to a greater extent, but it’s also true that most of the environments we function are designed for those who can see and rarely help enhance the abilities of someone who can’t. Read the rest of the post at: http://grapplingwithrp.wordpress.com Celebrating Global accessibility Awareness day- May 16 2019 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
