Re: symbolic representation of disabilities, what do you think?
@Chandu, your correct on that. I have mentioned before on this forum my summer music school who had dam awful experiences with two apparently very demanding blind girls and their guide dogs, and who were actually only willing to take me because! I didn't have a guide dog at the time.
Frankly that one worked out, mostly because the principle was willing to change, and indeed the reason I know so much about said original girls is that the principle had a long chat to me comparing what I did to what they did.
However that being said, unfortunately Chandu your equally correct on preconceived opinions and avoidance. This is why it's taken my brother fourteen years! to get a job in law, despite being over qualified, and why I've had so many instances of directors saying varients of "bugger off we can't have a blind person on stage" or still worse, making up an excuse of one sort or another. This is one reason I suggest in my phd an independent
disability advocacy service who basically talk! about disability with disabled person and their employer and do mediation, simply because most people don't have the contextual equipment to make an unbiased judgements of the capabilities of any disabled person, ----"Well I can't imagine climbing up stairs without seeing, so obviously nobody else can" (I myself have a useful phrase when people ask me if I want to use the lift, or just assume I do "It's the eyes that don't work,nothing wrong with my legs!" ).
@Kile, I've seen about the same as you with regarding the rocking and bad head position. The reason such habbits develop is essentially physiological. Since a blind person can't visually fix their eyes on a distant object and gain neural stimulation while sitting still the way a sighted person can, they atte mpt to get it through movement such as rocking or head rubbing etc. The problem however is since nobody corrects their habbits and since they're in an environment where such things, as much as body posture are the norm, such things just continue.
Of course I was lucky in that having a blind mother I never developed such, also I can visually see head position if I'm sitting close to someone.
Again this is why I'm dead against specialist schools.
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