It's not just people in the UK... in Canada, it can be a lot of the
same.. it all depends on what kind of system you get put in. We only
have one school for the blind in Canada... and a lot of the people
I've sceen come out of that are some of the cockiest and most stuck
up people... and social skills? Don't even get me started. All I can
say is I'm glad I went to regular high school, as the school for the
blind is across the country from me, in Ontario.
Oddly enough though, blind people who are raised in Asian families
tend to be the exact opposite. We're raised to think nothing of
ourselves and because the Asian belief is that anyone with any sort
of disability is basically helpless, a lot of blind people or people
with other disabilities tend to adopt that view. Everything is done
for us, and we get almost no say in anything... I'm glad I broke that
mold. lol. My family still can't accept that I can do so many of the
things I do... taking buses, cooking, you name it. It's pretty
ridiculous... luckily the majority of the blind people I deal with
don't exhibit any of the attitude and characteristics that you mentioned.
At 07:11 AM 28/04/2011, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
well I must confess I don't associate particularly with younger
blind people in this country other than some I've met through this
list or online precisely because they can become extremely cleaquey,
have lacking or none existant social skills, fail to do things for
themselves and regard anyone outside their group with suspicion.
For instance I know somebody who flat out was amazed at the idea of
me making coffee "without!" a liquid level indicator, sinse the
indicator won't fit on the cafetieir I don't particularly have a
choice, and when I mentioned how fond I was of my George forman they
nearly went into fits at the idea of a blind person using something
so dangerous!
I'll admit that I have something of a prejudice against this sort of
blind! people myself, which actually comes from the two years I
spent betwene 8 and 10 at a specialist school which was positively
victorian (my teacher was a dead ringer for prof umbridge in the
harry potter series).
the problem is this sort of thing can really cause problems with
other people's atitudes. I was at the Aims music school a week ago
which is a very high standard teaching course for professional and
semi professional singers.
i went last august so I now know people relatively well.
The odd thing is I did notice a bit of distance in some people's
atitudes and this time I found out why. Apparently they had two
blind girls attend previously who one of the ladies in charge
described as "dire!"
they for instance complained bitterly at nont having an en sweet
bathroom when in fact none of the rooms do, and when in fact the
organizer had given them a room slap bang next to the bathroom.
She described them as tremendously rude, complaining if stuff wasn't
done for them, yet getting very unpleasant if people offered to help
with anything.
Then though she did note that sinse I was at university and had (she
worked out), been to a "normal" school she assumed I was different.
I will confess this is the reason that outside this list and people
I meet related to games, I actually don't have much to do with other
blind people in the uk, sinse I always find myself feeling irritated
at some of the atitudes involved.
Interestingly enough, my mum went through the specialist system and
out the other side. she was told for instance in the 70's, when she
finished school and was looking at university "typing, telephony or
physio therapy"
that's why even though i attended a specialist school for two years
I wasn't a full time boarder there, and also why I've probably grown
up with a rather different atitude to some other people who have
hereditory site conditions.
Also why I've ended up working on disability as my main research interest.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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