why may not you know how to eat it?
Umesha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohit Shah Shah" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January, 2013 6:46 PM
Subject: [AI] When you sometimes feel isolated in the company of yoursighted
friends
Hi all,
I know that we all have a lot of sighted friends and/or colleagues.
While it is always fun to hang out with friends, I sometimes face the
below mentioned problems.
When your sighted friends get too busy amongst themselves i.e. when
they're looking at some photos or are looking at someone/something and
are laughing hysterically, don't you feel kind of isolated or lonely?
Furthermore, when they are sharing food, it is difficult for the
blind person to really get involved because you may not know what the
food item is, and, even if you find out through their conversation or
by asking, you may get self-conscious and may not know how to eat it
when it is offered to you.
Always saying that you're not hungry cannot be an excuse. They
will eventually find out the real reason.
A friend of mine sometimes says, "I will help you to eat this." and
he puts the food in a spoon and gives it to me.
He does this with the best of intentions, but it always makes me feel
awkward and kind of incompetent.
And before any of the blind police say that I should learn table
manners, let me tell you that I know how to use a fork, knife and
spoon. I only face a problem in the aforementioned situation.
Similarly, you can always get involved when they're simply talking
about something, but you really can't do much when you don't even know
what they're doing.
Please let me know what you guys think about all this.
Cheers,
Mohit
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