What Induces Fear?

why is it okay for a deaf person to call a blind person impaired, but they don't like it when hearing people call them that? i am not impaired in any way, shape or form. in fact, i can't stand the term visually impaired and wish it would be outlawed.
 
Nika said:
Three people is an awfully small sample size. You would have to ask a lot more blind people, e.g. conduct a survey through the NFB, in order to draw accurate conclusions.
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this is just a small, informal open-discussion for all of us to come to mutual understanding. :cool2:
 
Jiro said:
thing is - 3 of you expressed anxiety/panic attack/discomfort when going to public place because of something happened in the past when you were in public place. thus - it's more pronounced in blind people than sighted people. For example - a sighted person got mugged in a public place.... and a blind person got mugged in a public place as well. The anxiety is more pronounced and longer-lasting in blind person than sighted person.

no?
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no, that's not true. blindness doesn't affect how much anxiety a person feels. that's based on the individual and how they handle a situation emotionally -- not their disability or lack thereof.
 
Hear Again said:
why is it okay for a deaf person to call a blind person impaired, but they don't like it when hearing people call them that? i am not impaired in any way, shape or form. in fact, i can't stand the term visually impaired and wish it would be outlawed.
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I agree. I hate visually "impaired" retarded...
 
Hear Again said:
why is it okay for a deaf person to call a blind person impaired, but they don't like it when hearing people call them that? i am not impaired in any way, shape or form. in fact, i can't stand the term visually impaired and wish it would be outlawed.
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I couldn't agree more. I'm not visually impaired. I'm blind.
 
Jiro said:
this is just a small, informal open-discussion for all of us to come to mutual understanding. :cool2:
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Which is very nice and I enjoy having it, but it's still an erroneous conclusion given we're talking about three blind people here, all of whom have much more than their blindness in common.
 
Nika said:
I couldn't agree more. I'm not visually impaired. I'm blind.
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exactly. today after coming home from a doctor's appointment the person calling a cab for me told dispatch that i was visually impaired. i immediately corrected her and said, "i'm blind, not visually impaired." why do people have such a problem saying the word blind? i don't get it.
 
Hear Again said:
exactly. today after coming home from a doctor's appointment the person calling a cab for me told dispatch that i was visually impaired. i immediately corrected her and said, "i'm blind, not visually impaired." why do people have such a problem saying the word blind? i don't get it.
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I know personally "visually impaired" should and would carry more stigma... whats wrong with being blind?
 
Hear Again said:
exactly. today after coming home from a doctor's appointment the person calling a cab for me told dispatch that i was visually impaired. i immediately corrected her and said, "i'm blind, not visually impaired." why do people have such a problem saying the word blind? i don't get it.
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I have given people training sessions.

"Go ahead. Say it. Blind. Blind. Blind. There we go. Yes. Blind. Bliiiind."
 
Hear Again said:
no, that's not true. blindness doesn't affect how much anxiety a person feels. that's based on the individual and how they handle a situation emotionally -- not their disability.
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but then... anxiety is experienced because of no control over situation. The deaf has no control over sound thus.... feels intimidated/anxious... such as social gatherings. I'm sure you have read in other thread that most of ADers have expressed same complaint - we get anxious when it comes to social gathering full of hearing people such as holiday family gathering and friends night out.


**mind you again - this is specifically limited to public place
 
typeingtornado19 said:
I know personally "visually impaired" should and would carry more stigma... whats wrong with being blind?
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i don't know. i don't find anything wrong with being blind. i can't stand the term visually impaired because it implies that there is something wrong with me (not to mention the fact that it makes people think i have residual vision when i'm actually totally blind). it's no different than deaf people and how they feel about the term "hearing impaired."
 
Jiro said:
but then... anxiety is experienced because of no control over situation. The deaf has no control over sound thus.... feels intimidated/anxious... such as social gatherings. I'm sure you have read in other thread that most of ADers have expressed same complaint - we get anxious when it comes to social gathering full of hearing people such as holiday family gathering and friends night out.


**mind you again - this is specifically limited to public place
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...but sighted-hearing people experience anxiety too in public places, so you can't pin it all down on having a disability.
 
Nika said:
I have given people training sessions.

"Go ahead. Say it. Blind. Blind. Blind. There we go. Yes. Blind. Bliiiind."
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blind. blind. blind. you are blind. i am not blind. i like you blind people. when the light is turned off, i am blind. a very beautiful woman makes me go blind. when looking directly at sun, i will get blind. so here's a story - i said to a blind person - watch out! but the blind person said to me - i am blind, you fool. i apologized to that blind man and said - well you stepped on the poop. the blind man got mad at me and yelled - why didn't you warn me? I said - but i did say watch out! but he said - but i'm blind! how am i supposed to know! and the argument continued for 3 hours.
 
Jiro said:
but then... anxiety is experienced because of no control over situation. The deaf has no control over sound thus.... feels intimidated/anxious... such as social gatherings. I'm sure you have read in other thread that most of ADers have expressed same complaint - we get anxious when it comes to social gathering full of hearing people such as holiday family gathering and friends night out.


**mind you again - this is specifically limited to public place
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There are also cultural differences between hearing and Deaf culture. Many people experience anxiety when meeting people that are from an entirely different circle, whether it's people from another country or your in-laws. I don't think it's a result of physiological deafness. Plus blindness doesn't present the same communication barriers that deafness can. I think the anxiety is more stemmed in the intercultural relations rather than physiological deafness.
 
Nika said:
I have given people training sessions.

"Go ahead. Say it. Blind. Blind. Blind. There we go. Yes. Blind. Bliiiind."
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i get the same thing when people refuse to call me deafblind. my vr counselor is a perfect example. she always calls me blind and hard of hearing. every time she does that, i immediately correct her and tell her i'm deafblind.
 
Jiro said:
blind. blind. blind. you are blind. i am not blind. i like you blind people. when the light is turned off, i am blind. a very beautiful woman makes me go blind. when looking directly at sun, i will get blind. so here's a story - i said to a blind person - watch out! but the blind person said to me - i am blind, you fool. i apologized to that blind man and said - well you stepped on the poop. the blind man got mad at me and yelled - why didn't you warn me? I said - but i did say watch out! but he said - but i'm blind! how am i supposed to know! and the argument continued for 3 hours.
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i've been totally blind for 38 years and have yet to step in any dog doo.
 
Hear Again said:
i get the same thing when people refuse to call me deafblind. my vr counselor is a perfect example. she always calls me blind and hard of hearing. every time she does that, i immediately correct her and tell her i'm deafblind.
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what about the person who is "legally-blind" - the one who is not completely blind but requires assistance device to see? How should I say? blind?
 
I forgot to mention that you might be thinking that our blindness gives us a loss of control since you mentioned anxiety is a result of loss of control, and you are thinking it is more common among blind people. This isn't necessarily the case. Blindness doesn't automatically make us lose our sense of control. Blindness is constantly used as a metaphor for disorientation and loss of control, but physical blindness isn't necessarily disorienting.
 
typeingtornado19 said:
I'm sorry, that does stink.
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It does! :(

Hear Again said:
i know exactly how you feel, alleycat. i had to give a 30 minute presentation in my statistics class to 35 other students as well as my professor. since we were also required to have a class discussion following our presentation, i was worried about being unable to hear questions and comments posed by students, but i was able to use realtime captioning and my braillenote to read them all. to my surprise, i received an "a" on my presentation. i'm glad i did because i worried enough about it all semester! :Ohno:
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I'm glad yours went well. And this will be a group effort so I have to meet with my "teammates" outside of class as often as it takes for us to come up with this presentation, and it's gotta be good. It counts for HALF our grade!! Oh joy. Half of me wanted to drop this class today after hearing this news. I wanted to be in a Networking Technologies class (which is what this class is) and learn about LANs and all that fun stuff. I did not want to be doing a presentation !!
 
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