Category: the Rant Board
I hate when people try to be "pc" and say things like: "So, did you listen to Tv last night?" I mean fuck! What the hell is that? Just because I can't see doesn't mean it's the end of the world if I use the word!
God what the hell is people's problem?
It's like with computers, I've noticed the same ignorance from the sighted world with questions like how can you use a computer? hello! there are screen reading packages like jaws and windo-eyes that provide speech output. I had the same shit with my dealer a month or so, they thought I had a movie icon on the desktop, and I'm like no, click it and see what you get, as jaws comes up talking! Dam it! get a clue you idiots! this politically correct bullshit has gotten old.
There is this one fucker at work who stops himself every time he says see. Like he'll say, did you see the game last night? But before he finishes, he'll say, did you listen to the game last night? He will use the word watch around me though. But every time he says see, he changes it. Jesus fuck that pisses me off!
I get the shit where people think I'm totally blind. "Oh, do you need a braille menu, Miss?" I turn to them and go "Oh no, thank you though, just squinting at your incredibly small print!" Like they've never heard of large print before, jeez! Or the ones who see me with a cane and go "Where's your dog?" or the ones who get really confused and go "why do you need that if you can read the signs, cd labels, magazine, etc." Get a clue that people are different than society makes out their disability to be.
I wish ppl saw the fuckin shades of gray!!!!!!!
yeah! all of you are right!
or... another thing I hate is when people think I am different, dangerous, or just laugh at me like if I where a stupid thing. Also, they start to punch and hit me, and I can see they really happy when they do that. I don't like to say bad words, but those are fuckers!
Nobody around here has a Braille fucking menu so you should be thankful. LOL Seriously, it is so fucked up, the things you hear from people. Fuck.
I'd like to get an idea of whether this is accurate or not. According to one person I talked to about this and the general communications gap between blind and sighted, he thinks that sighted folk feel they must not use words like see or watch around us because it reminds us of what we don't have and would add insult to injury. This goes along with the belief that we are unescapably and devastatingly depressed because we are blind. Notice we're not depressed over a given situation, but just because we can't see, we are depressed. Man, if that's the truth, I really just have to stop fooling myself into thinking I'm laid back and just get all morbid and morose. What the hell have I been thinking all these years? Oh, the errors of my ways. OK, people, let the moping begin! Hahahaha!
Do any of you guys enjoy listening to TV? LOL
Hell yeah! I enjoy listening to Tv! I like watching it, even better. I also like to go, "see" an ocational movie, and "watch" football, or baseball, or whatever. Oh, and, yeah! I also like "watching" music videos!
You have offended me. I went to listen to a movie with my GF the other day. Tonight I am going to listen to a ball game on the TV. I may even listen to the newspaper. LOL
Hi guys!!!
So, do any of you zoners have "special" keyboards? Gotta love that one! hahahaha.
Of course not. We can't type. We use voice recognition software. That's what speech synthesis is, isn't it? Voice recognition? Hahahahahaha!
Hey guys. I know you read Braille, but can you speak it? I have been asked this.
Hmmm, can we "speak" braille? That's a new one! Oh yes, and jaws is voice recognition software! Has anyone ever gotten this comment? "Can't you just use something like dragon dictate?" No, you moron!
I have gotten the voice recognition software comment many times.
Or how about "HIIIII THEEEEERE! HOOOOOW AAAAARE YOOOOOU? I HOOOOOPE YOU CAN HEEEEAR MEEEEE AS I LEEEEEAN IIIIIN REEEEEAL CLOOOOOSE BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T SEEEEE ME, YOU CAN'T HEEEEEAR ME, RIIIIIGHT?!" They should make ear plugs for blindies and have this thing you spray on your shoulders to repel guiding hands!
The other day I was on a train station wating for a train, I took my mobile phone out of my pocket to make a call, as I was just about to unlock it and to make a call, this man ran towards me and said: "Hi, do you want me to dial a number for you, it must be very difficult for you to deal with things like these phones." I mean, don't these people have any logic?
1. Phones have buttons, I didn't realise you require site in order to feel buttons on a phone.
2. If I couldn't use it, why would I have a phone in the first place?
3. If I couldn't dial a number my self, why the fuck did I take my phone out of my pocket, to eat it? Gees!
I like communicating with blind people through sign language.
The reactions of the ignorant ahve nothing to do with logic. It all comes from emotion. Pity, worry, fear, that kind of thing. You do the math.
sight people sometimes think blind people is helpless, in other words, "oh, poor bind child/man, its so hard to him to do anything! be careful, don't do that, its bad ffor you, you cannot see, blah, blah, bla..."
I mean, why are that concetp related to blind people is that way? why people thinks that if we cannot see we just are unable to do things?
some people think we are normal. Thats good. Sometimes is good being blind, they help you in some ways, but sometimes blind people also abuse from that help...
hey... about the speech recognition program, its a pain! friend got it to me and I could not try it, just 21 days before it expire and I just scream infront of the microphone, screaming! "THELEEEEEEEEEEPHOOOOOOOOOOOOONNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" but that thing is just waste your time, you will not get any tries with that
Hi, Melodica. Yeah, I hate when people yell at you! I don't get where they think people who are blind are also hearing impaired, and sometimes I would think it would be weird to yell at a hearing impaired person also.
I also don't like when people ask the questions to someone else and not me, as if I can't hear or understand them or something. And they ask the weirdest questions sometimes like "Does she go to school too." and "who takes care of her at school?" (and this is actually college they mean, but questions like that get especially annoying.) I don't mind answering about how I use the computer though.
Another one (and the most annoying one for me) is when they expect you to guess who they are. It's very annoying when people just come up and say something like "Who am I?" or "Do you remember me?", and especially when their voice doesn't really sound different from others. I had this lady doing that to me. She was one of my uncle's friends, and after awhile she kind of got offended because I would tell her I couldn't remember her. It's not like I saw her every day or really talked to her, but I guess she thought I had like super hearing or memory or something. I don't mind it if people do it in a way where you know for sure who it is, like one of my uncles pokes at my side and one of my nephews sometimes covers my eyes, so I always "guess" right. But when others ask, it just would make me feel bad to get it wrong, so people shouldn't be surprised or offended if I say I don't recognize/remember them.
Leilani
It really really makes you wonder what kind of mental math is going on in some people's heads. OK, I know many many people just don't run into blind people every day. I know many many people don't know how to act in such a situation. I know many many people aren't trying to be jerks or cruel or mean and I don't take it as such. I know many many people don't want to cause us any emotional damage. But what's up with this idea that because we can't see we're also deaf and mute and people act as if it's just understood. The only really good explanation I got is that people think we're all Helen Keller. Now, the question is, why do people think we're all the same just because they never met one of us? Who to them are individuals and who to them are not?
IN my case its funny. When sighted people meet me, they are really surprised. "How can he do it! wou! look at him!"
Sometimes I change their brains. In other word, I change their atitude and I think thats good. I change them completely. And is not because I am smart, is because I make them laugh and I am happy as I am, I guess thats the reazon. I just remember when my school friends changed their voice to a stupid pitch that i could guess easily. Sometimes they just remined silenced and others asked me "who is him/her?"
thats a bit anoying. Other thing that anoys me is when they said such things like: "no, no, don't do it, I'll do it for you." I feel bad because its like saying me "let me do it for you because you are (visually impaired, in other words it can mean handycaped, mental retarded) you can't do anything so let the expert do it for you"
I cannot see, but I have my hands, brain, hearing, smell and taste, and a special perseption (yeah, I don't know, even in nights why can I see the darkness of the walls, or I feel if its an oppened area, I can almost "hear" everything) hmhmhmhm, let me make this clear. I have all that in my disposition so don't think I cannot do anything. But... even if they see me doing something sometimes they think its dangerous. Bah! I don't know why people have that extranje thought about us.
Ok... OK... Ok... I wrote too much, so see or meet you next time. Lol.
Some sighted people have the idea that all blind people are great musicians and should make music for a living. this kind of thinking is misguided as
the blind have a wide range of abilities; some are great musicians; some are great braille proofreaders, etc. This is the same wide range of abilities
as is found in the sighted world.
why do I have to let all topics close? why? when i write something the topic discusion stops suddenly? lol
Someone has to be last I guess. Well, until the next post, that will be me. I don't mind the asking about how I use the computer because that's a fare question. My favorite one is when I pull out my mobile phone and use a voice tag to call my girlfriend and the driver of the van automatically assumes I have a special phone for the blind. Hey asshole, if you would use the hands free stuff they put on all phones you wouldn't have had to swerve so violently to miss that truck because you were dialing the freeking call.
Well, I've never had anyone ask me about how I use my phone yet that I can recall, but I've been in a lot of the other situations you've all mentioned. And don't even get me started on the whole musician thing.
My Grandma has had it stuck in her head for years that just because when I was little, and took an interest in playing the piano, that that's what I was going to do all my life, and no matter what I try to do to show her that I have other talents, and am no longer interested in that, she won't let up about it. I mean, hello, I'm not Stevie Wonder, and nobody said I had any intention of being like him.
Sure, I'd like to learn to mix and do all the stuff the dj's do, but that's a totally different subject.
Ah you should be ashamed of yourself. Don't you know that all blind people tune and play pianos expertly? We rock back and forth listening to Stevie Wonder records the rest of the time. LOL Juliet, I have had the music thing too cause I too played when I was little.
One time, I was walking down the hall, and some kid came up, and said, "your going to walk in to a wall." well, I know that, 'cause I have a cane! And then, when I was walking away, this kid says, "she tried to walk through the wall." O yeah, I'm trying to walk through walls now, am I? Yeah, just say that "she's" gonna walk in to a wll, or though it! Did that make sense? I've been asked the computer one, but never have I had that happen with a cellular phone. Though i have been grabbed by the shoulders whth no explanation, and guided away from "danger", and I have been told to "guess who I am".
Oh my, I used to hate that in elementary school, the "who am I" game. Can you guess who this is? Then people would disguise their voices. I can tell you that, for me anyway, this stopped by junior high so you probably only have to put up with it for a couple more years. haha
While you're still in elementary school, I've got a few responses to the guess-who-I-am thing. If they ask you and disguise their voice, you could say, "Somebody who can't disguise their voice very well" or you could say "Don't you know who you are? You're beyond my help then." Hahahahahaha!
While you're still in elementary school, I've got a few responses to the guess-who-I-am thing. If they ask you and disguise their voice, you could say, "Somebody who can't disguise their voice very well" or you could say "Don't you know who you are? You're beyond my help then." Hahahahahaha!