What Induces Fear?

Jiro said:
yes but my assumption is that it seems that blinds are more prone to anxiety/ptsd/panic attack than sighted people in public place.... no? :hmm:


If I recall correctly... Lucia does not like crowdy place either.


which is why I listed a few
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Jiro, it all has to do with experience, my blindness has nothing to do with it.
 
Hear Again said:
blind people are not more prone to anxiety attacks than sighted people. that is just an assumption. the reason why it seems that way to you jiro is because nika, typeingtornado and i have all expressed discomfort being in public places.
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yes that is what i'm specifically targeting at. the anxiety attacks relating to public place.
 
by the way jiro, a polite request. please refer to nika, typeingtornado and i as blind people -- not "blinds." i am not something that covers a window. <giggle>
 
Hear Again said:
by the way jiro, a polite request. please refer to nika, typeingtornado and i as blind people -- not "blinds." i am not something that covers a window. <giggle>
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:laugh2: my apology. :ty: for correcting me. I wasn't too sure how to address it cuz I remember some of you got offended by the word "visually-impaired"
 
Jiro said:
yes but my assumption is that it seems that blinds are more prone to anxiety/ptsd/panic attack than sighted people in public place.... no? :hmm:
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Why would they be? That's like saying Deaf are more prone to PTSD. Makes no sense at all.
 
Nika said:
Why would they be? That's like saying Deaf are more prone to PTSD. Makes no sense at all.
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remember - i'm referring specifically to public place.
 
I don't see how that's different. That's like saying Deaf are more prone to having anxiety in bathrooms.
 
I have never, ever been comfortable in speaking/signing in front of large groups. Not one bit. The speaking part because I know my voice isn't like that of a hearing person and I wonder how many in the group/audience are understanding everything or if they're too polite to raise a hand and say "can you repeat that?" And for some reason I'm the same about signing, but not because of my signing level. I'm fluent in ASL. It's just the whole being in front of a group thing that petrifies me. My knees knock! And I found out in my class today that all of us have to give a verbal presentation at the end of the semester in front of the class, the IT dean, the college president, the works. Oh man! I'm gonna spend the next months worrying about this!
 
AlleyCat said:
I have never, ever been comfortable in speaking/signing in front of large groups. Not one bit. The speaking part because I know my voice isn't like that of a hearing person and I wonder how many in the group/audience are understanding everything or if they're too polite to raise a hand and say "can you repeat that?" And for some reason I'm the same about signing, but not because of my signing level. I'm fluent in ASL. It's just the whole being in front of a group thing that petrifies me. My knees knock! And I found out in my class today that all of us have to give a verbal presentation at the end of the semester in front of the class, the IT dean, the college president, the works. Oh man! I'm gonna spend the next months worrying about this!
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I'm sorry, that does stink.
 
Nika said:
I don't see how that's different. That's like saying Deaf are more prone to having anxiety in bathrooms.
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for example - for deaf people... they are more prone than hearing people to have anxiety in (hearing) social gathering. you see where I'm getting to?

mind you - i'm purely speculating. just a thought conjured up in my silly little head.
 
Jiro said:
for example - for deaf people... they are more prone than hearing people to have anxiety in (hearing) social gathering. you see where I'm getting to?

mind you - i'm purely speculating. just a thought conjured up in my silly little head.
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Thats understandable as they have a culture of their own, blindness does not necessarily give you a fear of anything unless you go blind as an older person.
 
Jiro said:
for example - for deaf people... they are more prone than hearing people to have anxiety in (hearing) social gathering. you see where I'm getting to?

mind you - i'm purely speculating. just a thought conjured up in my silly little head.
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Are you saying that Deaf would have more anxiety in a hearing social situation because of the medium of communication relying on hearing? By that analogy we would have the most anxiety in situations that were the most visually oriented, for example going a foreign film with subtitles.
 
AlleyCat said:
I have never, ever been comfortable in speaking/signing in front of large groups. Not one bit. The speaking part because I know my voice isn't like that of a hearing person and I wonder how many in the group/audience are understanding everything or if they're too polite to raise a hand and say "can you repeat that?" And for some reason I'm the same about signing, but not because of my signing level. I'm fluent in ASL. It's just the whole being in front of a group thing that petrifies me. My knees knock! And I found out in my class today that all of us have to give a verbal presentation at the end of the semester in front of the class, the IT dean, the college president, the works. Oh man! I'm gonna spend the next months worrying about this!
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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:
 
typeingtornado19 said:
Thats understandable as they have a culture of their own, blindness does not necessarily give you a fear of anything unless you go blind as an older person.
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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?
 
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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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.
 
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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Sorry, not so much. It is just the same as everyone else, we just have some experiences in common besides blindness that make us uncomfortable.
 
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