Re: Inspiration or Objectification
@Cx2, that is true. It's something of a historical irony that Edwin Chadwick was campaigning from the 1860's onwards for the government to install a sewer system, and getting no where until the weather lobbied on his behalf .
eUnfortunately Phil, looking up details on facebook or the like is something which probably won't happen with all the paranoid fear of stalkers etc. With eye contact I'm also not sure how well that would work given how instant eye contact is for sighted people, it's not a case of you having to pick it up, it is a case of the sighted person looking for a similar eye contact sighted response from you, and whether an ap could give you quick enough information, plus whether you could learn to fake such a response I'm not sure.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that the only way things will change is information abou t this conveyed to the sighted public, sinse frankly if sighted people were more educated about the fact that a blind person is not making eye contact because they are an untrustworthy, unsociable sort, but because they can't! things might improve significantly.
Interestingly enough, I was having a similar conversation the other day with one of my mum's friends who, apart from being an awsome fan of startrek, doctor who and other fun stuff, also runs the UK's disabled Canoeing division, (she had a couple go to the paralympics).
We were comparing experiences and the fact that people in wheel chairs get better treatment, and one thing she came up with was the fact that a lot has to do with basic body symetry, ie, a person who was just! in a wheel chair but otherwise looked normal, or a person with say an artificial limb would get on far better than say someone with severe scoliosis, or a slightly twisted body etc as regards reactions from others.
Ie , "look like me or you don't exist!" otherwise known as the human race is full of xenophobic bastards!
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