One more response came to my mind, and I could not stop sharing that also, dude, I am just physically blind, but unfortunately you are… just leave it at that and move on simple.Prerna Sobti On May 7, 2024, at 9:52 AM, Cauvery Krishna wrote:These are some of the experiences had by one of my
Hi allIn the beginning itself, I humbly write the disclaimer that I am a late life, visually impaired person, and some of you may not resonate with my thoughts, but I am still sharing it, why do we have to give so much of gyaan कयाैन to such ignorant souls and waste our energy ?If it was me
Hi,
People may be soft-heartedly feeling sympathetic seeing us as blind. No harm
intended. We simply accept their feeling of compassion, bless them from the
heart and move on. They could do with some punya even if that is true anyway.
Or at least they could do with some blessings from us for
My name isn’t Sigmund Freud, but I think that for this student the opposite
of success isn’t sloth – it’s running after flies that are meant to be
fanned away.
The truism says, success requires sacrifices. Many times it’s not enough
for you to sacrifice your sleep, hunger, comfort etc., though
I agree with below views of senior members.
Just to add more and summarise
Please worry about uncontrollable and trust your capabilities. The modern
medical research reveals that human brain is hardwired to produce best
outcome when it faces constant hardships. World is kind and cruel for
A lot of great suggestions have been made here. I wish to offer to help the
student to come out of her distress regarding what people say to us when they
find out we are blind! Please feel free to share my number with her and I will
try to do my best to help her get over all these silly
I recall my earlier year in my career when my boss told me channelize your
energy in such things where you may expect positive outcome. Please tell your
student that she should invest her time where positive impact on entire
disability community can be made rather than sensitizing ice-cream
I agree. Let's not take everything to our hearts. Try to senticize only
those around or whenever we get an opportunity to address a large
gathering. Otherwise, let our deeds and actions speak for themselves. If
somebody is so unaware, it's their problem.
Keep smiling, and try to take a few things
The story of Sara shared by Shadab gives us a message and direction. We need to
focus on ourselves. We cannot change people but their engagement with us can
bring about change. Let us focus on ourselves. We can be agents of change.
From: accessindia@accessindia.org.in On Behalf
Of
Please teach them to be rational rather being emotional on these parts.
I have gone with such uncountable experiences and maturity comforts you by ages.
Also I feel that we should not waste our timing to sensitise everybody on the
earth.
Sometimes harsh responses will touch their heart.
Once
Such reactions from people in society only show us we have miles to go as
regards disability awareness, rights-based disability awareness, awareness
about inclusion and consequently mindset change in a society which is still
under the grip of traditional thought process of viewing Disability as
Sad reality out of an age-old-perception is, our society is built on
traditional thought to see disability ONLY charity-based. Therefore Young,
educated,highly qualified people with disability with disability and people
who work in this sector should NOT get demoralised or upset by these
only 1 thing can be done.
if some1 says something, you can ask them like for example
why will you get punya by teaching me, you cant get punya by teaching
some sighted person?
and so on.
On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:52 AM Cauvery Krishna
wrote:
> These are some of the experiences had by one of my
These are some of the experiences had by one of my students of which I
don't have an answer. Could you please help me.
1. Di, I am a visually impaired MBA student, pursuing MBA from an IIM. I
was with a senior at the grocery store of our campus, i waited as the
senior got ice cream for both of
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