Yesterday's ride to work was one of those Uber rides were the driver could not believe that I was a blind person and could dress myself and take a shower and have basic hygiene skills and cook for myself and live by myself and have a family and all that other stuff. I get that some people are amazed at what we can do, but it gets a little old sometimes. So glad to be back to normal and have my normal Driver today. Sometimes people just make things exhausting.
@darren_duff unfortunately my friend. that sourte of thing is not going to go away any time soon. we can continue on to prove these people wrong by showing that we have work rounds to compinsate for our blindness, but at the end of the day, there will still be people who think that just because we're blind or what ever disability we have, we're incapable of doing anything.
@Drummerdaniels @darren_duff yeah, but it can be very very exhausting to constantly have to educate ignorant people who think blind = stupid. or blind = mentally disabled. or blind = incompetent. or blind = deaf. or any number of various and sundry things. The factt of the matter is, it sucks to constantly have to educate people on how blind does not equal stupid, mentally disabled, incompetent, etc.
@cary5871 @Drummerdaniels yes this is very true! plus, some people just don't know what google is! lol!
@darren_duff @Drummerdaniels either that, or they already have some preconceived notion that blind people are a certain way, so they just automatically lump you in with their preconceived ideas of what a blind person is supposed to be.
@cary5871 @darren_duff that i grant you. it does get tiresom after a while i agree. but as i said to Darren later, that problem is never going to go away. we can explane til we're blue in the face, but it's better to just carry on as usual and prove them wrong rather than just tell them. after all, action speaks louder than words usually.
@Drummerdaniels @darren_duff that seems ableist to me *shrug*, just bury your head in the sand and hope all the bad stuff goes away? that's not realistic, in my opinion. You have to advocate for yourself, and you have to educate others, otherwise disability awareness just won't happen.
@cary5871 @Drummerdaniels I actually agree with this. better to teach people than just saying it's never going to go away.
@darren_duff @cary5871 my apologies. maybe i should've refrazed this better. yes to explane and to try and teach people that just because you have a disability doesn't mean you are of no use to society is true, but the truth of the matter is some people just won't accept this as gosple. which is why i think that no matter what we do, the problem is not going to go away, no matter what we do. and no i'm not being defeatist hear, i'm just being realistic.
@Drummerdaniels @darren_duff I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, but if everyone basically just felt like it's pointless to educate others on disability awareness, we'd be back in the 1950s where blind people would be placed in institutions or locked in the cellars of family homes, because families of blind folks didn't want to deal with them. It's only because of speaking out and educating people on disability awareness that we are where we are today. Is it tiresome to have to constantly educate ignorant people on blindness and other disabilities? Sure it is. But it still needs to be done.
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@cary5871 @Drummerdaniels @darren_duff You mean like those people who seem to think yelling "over there!" in a slow exaggerated manner while gesturing repeatedly in a direction will help me see?
@dhamlinmusic @Drummerdaniels @darren_duff yes, precisely. ugh, it can be infuriating sometimes, rofl.
@darren_duff the 1 analagy i can give to this is when your trying to get a young child to settle down to sleep for the night, but the little tike just won't settle, no matter what you do. i don't know if it's an apropriet analagy, but it's the only one i can think off at this time. have a good day.
@darren_duff Fun times. It's rare that I run into that, thankfully, but it happens. When someone asks "How do you work?" or "Can you work?" instead of "What do you do for work?" you know you're in for a fun conversation.