At first glance it might seem strange to have a section about a philosophy of
blindness, however I think it is an extremely important topic to cover. The
reason is simple, how you view blindness will determine your reaction to being
blind or to those of us who are blind.
There are as many ":philosophies" of blindness as there are people so
obviously I won't be trying to cover EVERY point here. What I want to do is
present you with some ideas about what blindness is, a positive outlook if you
will, and thereby let you know what blindness DOES NOT NEED TO BE.
Whether we think about it or not we all have a philosophy of blindness. It
determines how we treat blind people and how we think about ourselves if we
are or become blind.
Of course one question to answer is
who is blind?
Then there's the ":sensitive": question of
what do you call someone who is blind?
My short answer would be blind, but God help us some people are offended by
that "nasty five letter word."
So here are some discussions about different aspects of blindness, incidents
that have happened to blind people and the affects of different philosophies
of blindness.
