Wonderful, I have lot of real life experiences to share and surely people will laugh at it. So far only we VI guys discuss but it can indeed become an eye-opener sensitizing event. Like,
When I had gone to Kasauli, a hill station in HP. We were staying in room where the inner room had a door, a window to its left and a cupboard to door’s right. The window was huge so it had lower frame. What was notable, which I realized after the funny incident that all three things; a door, a window and the cupboard had same wooden doors with the same design. And in the evening when I was high after a bit of booze, wanted to go to the outer room to the washroom. Note here that we sometimes depend on clues like doors etc. to find ways and in this case all 3 things door, window and the cupboard had same designed doors. I first got fooled because of window doors and realized it was a window and not a door when it’s wall stopped my lower body from exiting. Then I went to the left and thought the right door of the exit half ajar and ended up actually closing the exit passage. I got irritated and when to the extreme left where the cupboard was open. I thought that to be surely an exit to the outer room by holding both sides of the door and when marched forward, soon realized I was entering the cupboard) It looked very funny then we couldn’t stopped laughing the whole night. Moral of the story, alcohol may create funny incidents and doors, windows and cupboards must not have doors with the same design. If you didn’t even laugh then my belief is right that I am a horrible story teller. Cheers and happy Diwali to boss who is not there today On 10/27/13, Shiv <[email protected]> wrote: > Making light of dark stuff > Sharmila Ganesan Ram, > TNNOct 20, 2013, 05.34AM IST > > 'I am a Kannadiga from Bangalore," Sundeep Rao tells an audience full of > Tamilians in Coimbatore. Then he bends over and makes a show of hiding his > bottle > of water from the room. Even though Rao's left hand takes a second longer to > find the bottle, the Cauvery crisis reference works instantly, laughter > fills > the delay and no one notices the Kannadiga's real problem. Bullet dodged. > > Rao is a partially blind standup comedian who loves bragging that he can > joke about sex in front of his mother because "I can't see her". She started > becoming > blurry when he was eight. At that age, he was diagnosed with juvenile > macular degeneration - a condition that damaged his retina and rendered him > with > only partial eyesight in both eyes. Rao now has only peripheral vision so he > cannot see faces or read books. For him, crossing the road, climbing up the > stairs, walking down the road to buy a cigarette are all forms of extreme > sport. "It is the longest relationship I have been in," says Rao, now 30, > referring > to his eyesight that has been diminishing over the last 23 years. > > Before every show, his mind is a battleground. What if I trip on the stairs? > What if I can't find the mike plug on time? Where exactly is the bottle of > water placed? What if I mistake a boy in the front row for a girl? Will I > become the joke? But he wins over these internal demons and gets on stage > anyway, > because, here, his misery is material. "Standup is as much therapy for me as > it is a profession," says Rao, who recently performed his first-ever solo > show called Out of Sight, where he establishes right at the beginning that > he is partially blind. > > The show is an amalgam of his personal wounds that turned into jokes on > healing. Since Rao does not carry a cane or wear thick, dark glasses, > Indians refuse > to believe that he has an impairment. When he tells them he is visually > impaired, they ask him, "But where's your cane?" "Indians see disability as > either > black or white. They don't understand partial blindness," Rao says. Once, > during an airport check-in, he told the lady at the counter that he would > need > assistance as he is partially blind. She asked him if he would like a > wheelchair. "I let them soak in till they become funny," he says, about > these dollops > of entertainment that have found their way into his confessional show. > However, it took almost two years to get here. > > When he started out as a standup in 2011, this former IT company copywriter > preferred to hide behind general jokes - the banal abbreviations in the > technical > mails he used to proofread, lame jokes of colleagues about his glorified > desk job, how the Welsh accent makes even the Indian accent sound posh and > why > singer Bono should use Google (a reference to U2's song I can't find what > I'm looking for). He would then, suddenly, launch into jokes about > blindness > but the transition was awkward. "Nobody would laugh when I did jokes about > blindness. They could not get why a person without flaws was making fun of > the > visually impaired," says Rao. > > Today, his voice is more authentic. Rao - who has performed everywhere from > a middle-aged lady's garage ("they were probably expecting a stripper") to > corporate events - has lost many of his inhibitions. "I don't feel > self-conscious asking for assistance anymore." He does not feel the need to > memorize > the seating order of girls and boys in the front row and when people ask him > about his absent cane, he has learnt to say, "I don't have it because I > can't > find it." > > Besides, Rao, who says he is in a happy relationship now, does not shy away > from discussing the dangers of dating as a partially blind person such as > waking > up to find a guy in his bed the morning after. Even in front of his mother. > > Source: > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-20/stoi/43219823_1_jokes-blindness-sundeep-rao > > Regards, > > Shiv > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > 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. 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