Blind Planet

So I think this is when I'll tackle the potentially ticklish subject of how some blind folks can treat others sometimes.

So let's now talk about being blind while in public. That is, how to interact with the sighted. I know there are people whose approach to this is much more
hard-line, but being hard-line just isn't my thing, at the risk of perhaps not changing as many minds as a more hard-line approach might. You have to figure
out what works best for you in the end, but this is how I approach the whole subject.

So, a lot of this should be not only common sense, but stuff that's pretty much automatic if your parents raised you with these ideas. First, just because

This is the second of three cross-posts from www.blindspots.net.

So, as I might or might not have promised, or is that threatened, I want to make a series of posts laying down my particular thoughts on blindness in general
terms.

So, how do I feel about it? I dunno if I can say being blind is the greatest experience one can have, but I still wouldn't give it up, just because I'm
used to it. My life may not be ideal in the eyes of some, especially if you get your ideals from the TV or magazines, but I can safely say I'm happy.

This is cross-posted from my blog as Captain-Labyrinth over at www.blindspots.net.

I suppose I'll try my hand at a post here. I already have a blog over on Livejournal, but I really would like to try blogging over here. What I'd like to
do is perhaps have a separate blog that will concentrate on my thoughts on assorted blindness-oriented things. OK, some of you are going to yawn, but that's
OK. I'm not writing this to be popular or to make it seem as if I'm writing the next Indiana Jones movie script. I'm writing these things to express myself