By: Hugh McLeod

Hugh McLeod — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 04:23:43 +0000

Fear of blindness, like fear of falling or of drowning is natural. But like so many natural fears, fear of blindness among the sighted is irrational or ignorant bigotry. Yesterday I told my 64 year old brother that a blind man on a flat roof is at no more risk than a sighted man. The danger for both arises from getting on or off the roof and from pure stupidity. But my brother, after more than half a century still loves me and does not understand that my blindness is just part of me. I think most sighted people, and too many blind people, refuse to see. Like racism, sixism and any otherm phobia or “ism”, the demeaning of the blind is due to unexamined ignorance.

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By: Hugh McLeod