Category: Let's talk
Do you think blind people have weird quirks? I do. For example, I love the smell of disel when we pass a vehicle in our car. Isn't that strange? I've talked to several others who said they do also. So, what about you? Do you or anyone you know have any weird quirks?
i don't think being blind has anything to do with it. i know a few people who like the smell of petrol, myself included, but many of them are sighted. now,,, if you mean blind mannerisms, there's lots of them about, the rocking, the very abrupt way of behaving with unfamiliar people, the lack of physical confidence and just behaving oddly in general. i have non of these thank god, but am never the less a slightly quirky excentric person. lol, just as well, if i wasn't i'd not fit so well with my circle of friends. my best girlfriend is sighted and my best male friend is blind. they're both certifiable as are most of my other pals.
Oh, I believe I'm so eccentric that I'm not sure which ones stem from my blindness and which ones are just due to personal interests of mine. I collect talking clocks and lots of DVDs, especially cheap ones with low-budget sci-fi and horror movies on them as well as old cartoons. I also collect novelty radios and things that have radios in them that you don't normally find a radio in, like a flashlight or a toilet paper dispenser. I'm not kidding! I love collecting sound effects recordings and let's not even start on all the weird music I like. Nope, no country music or light rock for me, no no no! Hahahahahaha!
I tend to agree with the second post. I do think though, that because blind people are in the minority and are perceived by many as "different" that our behaviors probably fall more under the microscope of society for examination. Maybe we as peole who are blind also examine ours and eachothers quirks a little more closely because of this. How many times have we been told about the behaviors of another person who is blind?
Lou
Actually, I think it's the rest of the world that have quirky habbits. For example, they insist on driving their computers with something called a mouse--a really quirky habbit, as any JAWS or window-eyes user will tell you.
They also insist on maintaining a private vehicle despite the abundance of quick, responsive public transportation. I won't even get into the cost of gas!
They also insist on socializing on inferior sites like facebook (see another board topic for my ideas on that), and most of them have never heard of the zone.
So, I think sighted people are the weird ones, and me and my friends are all normal. Excepting: Becky, Godzilla-on-toast, Nem, Motifaded, Gemini, and you miss topic starter.
Bob
Ok, firstly, hahahahahahahahahahahaha Bob! Secondly, I like rocking to music and spinning round on office chairs that spin. It relaxes me. I'm also fond of swings.
totally and happily agreed with the last post, and haha to bob.
I think that as Nem said, (was it nem?)
Blind people who have never had sight haven't had a chance to observe normal social behaviors. I think this, alienation if you will, has something to do with it.
but for the most part, I reccon blind people are just as quirky as sighties.
totally and happily agreed with the last post, and haha to bob.
I think that as Nem said, (was it nem?)
Blind people who have never had sight haven't had a chance to observe normal social behaviors. I think this, alienation if you will, has something to do with it.
but for the most part, I reccon blind people are just as quirky as sighties.
Ah, but I s'pose what has to be done is to rebel against society's misguided idea that being diferent is bad, shameful or wrong in itself. People say they want diversity and then they criticize people for being different. Jumpin' jellyfish, people, you can either have the cake or eat the cake, not both. Now choose!
i don't agree. i'm considered quirky because of my very dry sense of humour, my choice in clothes and music, the amount i drink, the crazy things i do, my religious and political views and my skull colection....not because i'm blind. that's all i'm saying, this is a weird and wonderful world and its full of freaky folk, being blind is really not the point.
well, i do think there are weird things that blind people do for example: spinning around and around, that's just freeking annoying
rocking, looks... odd
eye poking, makes your eyes ugly, and more, but sighted people do weird things too, but i think blind people do them more, because we havent seen what sighted people do, and we just grow up with we... wanna do i guess
anyway, i dont know if that made sense, but oh well
I will draw your attention to a topic on the getting to know you board about spastic blind habits. Read it, and you may get a good laugh. Lol
When I was in grade school, I use to scare all the girls by poking my eye so hard my eyeball would pop out of the socket. Good times.
Hey, spinning is ok, time and place, ya know?
I agree with the posts about posts about the rocking. People used to do that in my high school. I didn't but it was annoying when they did.
I once talked with a sighted person who said I looked blind.
I asked her what made me look blind.
I thought her explanation was interesting.
She compared the two of us (she and I) sitting in my living room.
She said she was sitting there with her feet propped up and crossed, occasionally moving her head.
On the other hand, she said I was sitting there very straight, I looked very unrelaxed. When I thought of it, she was right.
Though I felt comfortable with this person, I didn't want to appear "blind" in her presence.
I think it all goes back to blindys never having seen, so we don't have a target to shoot at when it comes to appearances sake. Therefore, we bend over backwards to not appear blind, and we appear blind. ("Jeesh, you can't win.")
For those who have, or have had sight, this doesn't apply. I don't know what your excuse is. <lol>
Bob
Bob, you make a good point. I know I "grew up blind" and as a result, I don't have an immage of "How I look" to others in some ways. I didn't really understand this thing about eye contact until I got to graduate school. One of my profs was a real jerk, and I think he might have been trying to be funny, but what he said made a lot of sense to me. I wear glasses, so he said, "Lou, try and make glass contact with where you hear the person's voice coming from." Another time, I was told I should gsture more when I talked. The person used directions as an example. When you say over there, point your hand or arm that way. Well, I was on a city street by myself, and I went to gesture to "over there." I punched someone in the face. I've been a little gunshy about gesturing ever since.
Lou
I still rock back and forth once in a while, but I know this one girl who rocks , like, constantley, and it annoys the shit out of me, because even though I can't see, I can usually tell when she's doing it. I mean, i'd be nice about it and tell her to please stop rocking, but I don't want to come off as sounding like a bitch, so, there you are.
I used to rock back and forth like mad as well. Heaven knows what got me in to the habit, probably the three rocking chairs I've had over the years, my little plastic rocking horse I had when I was a toddler or my love of swings, whether they were in the playground or just in my Grandparents, garden, so it carried on for ages after I got off the swing. I just didn't like sitting still, so when I got bor'r'r'r'red, the rocking started unless I went off to find a swing or rocking horse to ride on. Mum says we had a swing in our own tiny garden when I was very small and still in nappies as she has photos of me on it, but I can never remember there being a swing in our back garden when we lived in that house.
Jen.
I still love swings. If i'm by a playground, (which doesn't happen that often), I'll want to go on one for a while and forget the world. *smile*
I also had the habit of turning my head from one side to the other when I was little, but that's long since stopped.
yay, I'm so glad I'm no the only oen who loves swings and spinning around on office chairs, lol. it definitely relaxes me. sometimes I'll be doing it in my room and someone will open the door and catch me and I'll get embarassed, lol. but it's definitely a way for me to relax and I consider it pretty safe seeing there are really worse ways, lol. and I don't really do it in public either, so as far as I'm concerned it's all good, lol. I've been begging myu parents for a prch swing or some kind of swing forever but we still don't have one.
I have a few weird quirks. First of all, I like to sing to myself when nobody's around, I used to sleep with my pac mate at night and even talk to it. The good thing is I only did this when nobody's around. I've done the same with my cel phone a time or two. I play school with cabbage patch dolls, and I was the teacher.
I like eating raw peas straight out of the pods, which most people think is weird. One of my eyes is smaller than the other. Is this the same for all blind people, where they have one eye smaller than the other?
*laughs at Jesse's post! Those were some good times. You all might think I'm really mean but damn! There are a lot of um quirky people on here. The only quirky/spastic thing I did when I was little was poke my eyes but poking them until your eye pops out? Outch and iew! Or was it a fake eye? Still! Wow! And people who rock and spin annoys me so much! I mean I can understand tapping your towes to music or whatever but the rocking makes me so dizzy. lol One time, I was on ventrilo and this guy kept rocking and rocking while I was talking to him. His voice kept coming closer and going farther from the mic and that's hell when you wear earphones cause it's almost like it's in your head. I was so tempted to put out my hands and grab him by the shoulder and push them down really really hard. lol I do that to my little sister who rocks. haha I told you I was mean. lol I hope I didn't offend anyone on here. It's just how I feel really. And I don't think collecting radios and stuff is weird. A lot of people collect stuff so yeah.
Michelle
I don't rock anymore, but I used to. actually... I should just say I don't do it as much as I used to. But I sometimes catch myself doing it when I'm upset, but I stop myself. as for calecting things, if that was weird, then I'm the weirdest person on the face of this plannit! I used to poke my eyes when I was little, but don't do that anymore either. I hope I make since here.
I collect horse ornaments and ave got at least 20.
i don't find that last one quirky. collecting things is pretty fun.
I love collecting ornaments of animals from carboot sales and plaes, but Mum told me off and not to keep buying rubbish last time I came back with some. Well, I don't care. It's fun and interesting.
One of my big quirks is when I'm home alone, I started a make believe club consisting of me, my computer, cell phone and pacmate. It's so fun! I create fake meeting agendas, and I love this quirk! I only do these things when I'm home alone.
Get a life.
When I was little, I used to bounce when I walked.
I walk on my toes all the time.
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