Re: a few complaints about the blind comunity
All that is unfortunately true Bryan, I've mentioned before the annoying girls at the aims music school (I'm glad I never met them).
What I find worrying is such behaviour is sometimes condoned in quite high levels of organizations and thought.
I read a serious book on disability for example where a sociologist posed as being blind (she had a blind husband), in order to get the experience and write about it. In this book she details a scenario where she was attempting to buy batteries from a shop, but instead of going to the counter where everyone else was kewing and asking the shop assistant politely when she got to her place in the kew, she went to a counter at the back of the shop that was not in use, and demanded "can someone fetch me some batteriess" repeatedly until one of the assistants had to leave the crowded counter and come to the back of the shop, then run back to deal with the next customer.
She used this to cryticize the sighted shop assistants but to my mind she was in the wrong, for not going to the usual place where the kew was, and asking politely in recognition that she was asking the assistant to do something other than their usual duties, especially considdering that according to her the shop was very crowded and the assistants were extremely busy.
It worries me that this is the sort of thing that some so called disability advocates are quite literally demanding.
One thing I will say however is that sinse having a guide dog I have found myself asking for things more often on her behalf. For example, when I had a stick if I bought a coffee in a cafe I'd just find myself a seat holding the coffee in my other hand. I don't however want to risk injuring my dog with hot coffee, so I will ask if someone can carry it to the table for me. I have even been known when on a train to ask the guard to get me a coffee from the buffet sinse I don't want to risk wandering u p a crowded train carrying hot liquid
Of course I do all this as politely as possible, however I will say having someone else to think about does change the perspective slightly sinse i find where I am not generally happy asking for things for myself, if I'm asking on Reever's behalf that is another matter, particularly sinse she's such a gentle creature she'd never stick up for herself even if say someone threatened stepping on her.
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