Hi Orin, Yeah, its called a double standard. On one hand blind people are seen as somehow super human if we can play a piano, play games, or anything else a sighted person can do. On the other hand we are totally helpless barely able to go to the bath room ourselves. Instead of placing us in the middle of those extremes we are seen with both awe and pitty as we are both super human and helpless in the public eye. I'm a musician myself, but I'm certainly no professional at it. However, any time I play my guitar, keyboard, etc people instantly ask why don't I play my guitar like Jeff Healie. Jeff Healie is an exceptional blind guitarist, from Canida, who has invented all of his own chording, and plays the guitar in a way that is completely unusual. It is cool, to be sure, but suddenly if one blind guy does it that way suddenly all blind people have to play the guitar that way, or so some sighted guitarists think. What they fail tosee Jeff Healie intentionally rose to super star status because he wanted to do things no one else tried before like drinking a cglass of water while playing the lead guitar for the song "I See the Light" and crazy stuff like that. that kind of showing off only adds to the super human legend which isn't at all close to the truth. Then, we have those few blind people who act like they are totally helpless, and add to the blind people are helpless legend. I've seen that happen more than once during my life time, and at those times I'd like to crawl under a rock. Especially, when some fellow blind person does something to draw negative attention to himself or herself by rocking in public, picking their nose, mumbling outloud, or some other socially unacceptable behavior.
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