well taking a cane does net people know you are blind but its secondary though i have sometimes got to lazy to take it a thing I am trying to kerb. ofcause weather you have a cane or not some don't care but not many at least. At 12:41 p.m. 9/03/2010, you wrote: >Good grief! I spend four hours this morning reading (or at least having my >research assistant read), a ream of stuff on the social theory of disability >and intigration, for my phd, ---- which is intended to defign disability, then >I get it on this list as well! > > >Aaaaaaaagh! ;D. > >My own thought is that any discussion of these issues needs to recognize >flexibility. > >Yes, there are blind people i've met from the specialist education system >who've now ended up in a total mess. Equally however, there are occasions (I >experienced one myself as a teenager), where intigration doesn't work simply >because of the nature of the environment in question. > >Yet neither environment can be said to "create" the disaibility in the first >place (as many theorists argue), the blindness is there and needs dealing with. > >What I'm trying to do in my phd is derive a theory of disability based on >questions of quality of life, not related either to specific social or >environmental factors, or tied to specific conditions which can then be named >and pointed to. > >Sinse it is based upon quality of life, any answer to "intigration vs >specialization" has to be looked at on a case by case basis. > >Yes, for a blind person of normal interlect, a sympathetic intigrated >environment might work, however for someone of less than usual interlect, ---- >or indeed someone who requires huge amounts of independence training, maybe >some degree of specialization would help. > >On the "appearing normal" front, Again, there seem to be two things. Yes, the >majority of people are bloody stupid about blindness. however wandering around >bellowing at others for help or expecting assistance to always be there >doesn't work either (an atitude I've encountered far too often among blind >people and indeed people who work with blind people). Such things are an >interaction and should be thought of as such. > >I carry a kane, not to warn people I'm blind, but simply to make certain I >don't fall down steps. On the other hand, I turn and look at people when i'm >talking to them to make their communication and interaction with me easier, so >that I can live with people on a more reasonable basis. > >Btw, my special school was as vile as my main stream one, my teacher was! >professor umbridge! so I'd say I've seen both sides of the education coin fail >miserably. > >Beware the grue! > >Dark. > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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