lhatkins
Dazed and Confused
Ok strange title, I know, but I've had quite a spooky experience tonight at the pub, sorry this might go on for a while so feel free to ignore it.
First I'll explain to those who may not know, my dear wife and I are visually impaired.
Now we're not stangers to pubs, clubs and all that and we like to have a drink or two.
We've just moved out to a new area and thought we'd try some of the locals out, anyway its our 2nd time in this particular one, and I decided I needed to find the Loo, anyway I must have taken a wrong turn or something (no this isn't going where you think it might) someone stopped me and said "Your blind arn't you", so I politly siad "I'm trying to find the loo", anway he showed me the correct way to go, but on my return he chatted to me about my sight (which I don't have a problem with) but when I explained about my wife and my condition each ending was met with "oh god, that must be terrible, I'm so sorry" and "how do you do it".
Now we've come up against this before, but this guy was really over the top, like tapping everyone on the sholder and saying "these couple are blind do you know" and bascily treating us like we where 5 or something, I wanted to tell the guy to polietly "kcuf off!", was qutie embarrassing.
This, I admit, is a very isoliated case, I realise it must be as difficult to people without a disability to understand those with one.
I'm just basicly interested to know how you " normal " people see us, I guess you'd had seen / met Dom and Harry on bake off's and I've met Tony (WM) and guys at Bristol Show last year.
Is a disability harder for some people to accept than others? I mean its normal to me, as I know no different.
Any thoughts?
First I'll explain to those who may not know, my dear wife and I are visually impaired.
Now we're not stangers to pubs, clubs and all that and we like to have a drink or two.
We've just moved out to a new area and thought we'd try some of the locals out, anyway its our 2nd time in this particular one, and I decided I needed to find the Loo, anyway I must have taken a wrong turn or something (no this isn't going where you think it might) someone stopped me and said "Your blind arn't you", so I politly siad "I'm trying to find the loo", anway he showed me the correct way to go, but on my return he chatted to me about my sight (which I don't have a problem with) but when I explained about my wife and my condition each ending was met with "oh god, that must be terrible, I'm so sorry" and "how do you do it".
Now we've come up against this before, but this guy was really over the top, like tapping everyone on the sholder and saying "these couple are blind do you know" and bascily treating us like we where 5 or something, I wanted to tell the guy to polietly "kcuf off!", was qutie embarrassing.
This, I admit, is a very isoliated case, I realise it must be as difficult to people without a disability to understand those with one.
I'm just basicly interested to know how you " normal " people see us, I guess you'd had seen / met Dom and Harry on bake off's and I've met Tony (WM) and guys at Bristol Show last year.
Is a disability harder for some people to accept than others? I mean its normal to me, as I know no different.
Any thoughts?