Otherwise I am pretty confidence about my abilities with due respect to physical limitation, but when it comes to traveling outside my home town, I feel anxious. Although I have traveled alone without any escort many a times, but it happens with anxiety. I guess I am a bit unsecured about reaching my destination. The thoughts which ponders my mind is whether I will be safe? Whether I would get the help from others when warranted? Whether people would feel OK to help me? and many more such question. I guess as a visually impaired person, I have a lot of expectation from mass of able body, that is the sighted people for offering their help to me without me asking for the same. So for example when I am standing on for crossing the road and when no one comes ahead to extend their help, I feel the world is so insensitive. Wherein eventually I request for people to help me in crossing the road, people are more than happy to help. My expectation from people is that they need to be courteous from their side to offer help without asking or requesting for the same. Also when people are at my help, I feel that I am bothering them and they might be feeling burdensome. This is when I might need help of people around me during more longer navigation, and help needed for serving me lunch or dinner. Is this mindreading from my side, or do people around us really feel burdensome to help us? or whether our sighted counter part see us indifferently as we are different from them physically due to our visual challenge. Sometimes I also feel that other sighted people such as our colleagues are jealous of me as I am in par much better then them in several aspect. and that is why they are feeling indifferent about me. Most of the anxiety happens for long distance traveling and stay which gets stretched for more than a day or so. Although everything gets managed well and workout to be positive against my anxiety, but still I feel the same every time for the travel and stay. Is this common to all while traveling alone without escort? or Is it peculiar only for me, I do not know. Could anyone share their experience when they have traveled alone without any sighted assistance? Note, I might not have this anxiety if any blind known person is also traveling with me as my companion, but I also feel anxious if I am traveling with known sighted person other than my family member, as I think that sighted known person might be feeling burdensome to accompany me for this journey.
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