There is something to be said regarding segregation at least in the elementary levels of education. I heard once a black advocate of segregation say integration can't truly happen unless all are truly equal. We blind need to have a well grounded academic, as well as a solid social grounding before we can be totally mainstreamed. To often sighted teachers don't truly believe we can learn the same subjects equally well as can our sighted counterparts. The mainstreamed child is often at a disadvantage at the beginning of his education. Thereby filling him with negativity which need not be there, and may take a good deal of counteracting positive experiences to erase. We blind, in order to integrate successfully in to mainstream society need to have as positive a self image of ourselves as it is possible to give to us. That means being comfortable with ourselves as blind people. It must be taut us from an early age, it is we who define what it means to bee blind, not blindness which defines us and the things of which we are capable. Even now, I find myself allowing blindness to define whether I ought to attempt something. Even now, sometimes a small voice inside me tells me occasionally, I might be better off having some sighted person help me do one thing or other. Regardless what knowledge that sighted person has. It is enough for that small voice that the person have sight. Which makes him just that much better than this blind person. Now, that is wrong. But, none the less it happens. Before we can be truly mainstreamed, we must have such a sense of pride in ourselves, and that of which we are capable it boarders on arrogance without crossing that invisible line between the confident and the arrogant. The line is a very thin one. As thin as the line bordering love and hate. The successful blind person walks it without crossing it and becoming insufferable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saqib Hussain" <saqibh23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 7:28 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: join my group blind ms office
Hi. Looks like I've started a whole new debate. For me personally and the way I've been bought up! Blind is something to be ashamed of and the less the word is used in any form of life the better. I'm not taking a passing shot at anyone! Just trying to encourage mainstreemism within the blind community. On 21/07/2012, Angel <angel238@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I love it. It is posts as are yours that remind me so much of my dear latehusband. He had partial sight. Or you might say he was "visuallyImpaired". He didn't mind at all the label blind as it applied to him. Heassociated with us totally blind folk, and as most of his friends weretotally blind, I believe he preferred our company. He would probably say,"I am blind" period dot". His speech was full of colorful phrases he created himself such as "period dot". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley23@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:53 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: join my group blind ms officeI am blind full stop. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel" <angel238@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 1:10 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: join my group blind ms officeYou may have vision to impair. But many of us don't. We are blind. With no sight to impair. So, why shouldn't we be proud to use the wordwhich most aptly describes us. If we were all called visually impaired,that would imply we all had vision to impair. It would also furtherstigmatize the word "blind". Which should be nothing about which to feelshame. If that is what you are. If that word is used to describe various applications or other things, it might mean we all could usethem. Not just those who only require some sort of screen magnificationto use them satisfactorily. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saqib Hussain" <saqibh23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 5:37 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: join my group blind ms officeHi. What is it with this blind word. Personally I find it annoying along with a few others. Even Pacific apps for VI people are being called blind so and so. It's embarrassing to say the least. On 21/07/2012, Tom Lorimer <tlorimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Austin, Google groups use the plus sign before the word Subscribe instead of the normal dash. 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