Re: Discrimination at a County Fair
@Paddy, eye contact is a bit more than just having your eyeballs pointed at someone's face. It literally involves focusing your eyes on someone else's eyes, looking at what their eyes do and responding. it is not something I've ever been able to do, but I've discussed this with enough people to know how it works.
You should always face someone when speaking to them as you said, sinse otherwise you can seem very rude and uninterested, however this is completely different from eye contact, indeed by the time a person is speaking to you eye contact isn't necessary (eye contact is often the precurser to speech).
@Wanderer, Yep, the hearing loss can't help either, I know for a fact I avoid noisey environments myself precisely for this reason and I still occasionally make mistakes over being spoken to. For example a while ago I was at a friend's wedding. I was sitting at a table in the dining area opposite another friend of mine.
A pe
rson she knew and I didn't turned up to speak to her and they had a chat. When said person left she said "I like your tunic" and went.
My friend (the one sitting opposite), then asked me why I'd been so rude to not thank someone whenrecieving a complement on what I was wearing. I however didn't realize the woman was speaking to mesinse she had been speaking to my friend, and while I was indeed wearing a long and fairly ornate coat in Chinese style I'd have not described ait as a tunic, ---- if she'd said "I like your jacket" I'd probably have noticed.
Regarding determining who is in an area and ringing them across the room, well yes, I'm not surprised people see this as a stalker tactic, it's quite a modern paranoyer, indeed as I said the separation of online and offline contact is a bit worrysome, which is why I suspect the cultural acceptance of such a thing would be far more major a change than the technolog y required, which already basically exists. Heck, even if it were introduced as an access program which say could scan people's Iphones in your vicinity and bring up their facebook profiles to read, to give blind people an equal crack at information and contact it would just contribute to the myth of misstrusting those manipulative blindies, which already can be found in some places.
Probably the only real way to solve this sort of problem is try and educate the public, have more blind people on tv etc who are actually normal people rather than super sensomatic heroes like the dare devil or completely helpless and pathetic, though of course this is a very slow process and it's likely only people in the future who will get the same bennifit sinse certainly I've not noticed any major difference in attitude change in the thirty or so years I've been alive. Indeed with the recent financial crisis and the government and some of the worse news papers having fun labelling disabled people as scroungers there is a slight dip in attitude at least among people who pay attention to newspapers.
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