I feel like I saw a lot of really great things yesterday during Amber’s lesson, but I’m not sure how to process what I saw. I spend the whole class watching very carefully, but I’m just not sure what I’m seeing. I’m a bit nervous about trying to help Lauren out as she learns her building tomorrow. There’s just so much to pay attention to and so many different ways to help. At this point, I’m just not sure which ways are the right ways and which ways are the wrong ways. I certainly don’t want to do the wrong things. For some reason, all the information doesn’t want to collate. Maybe it’s just too early in the semester.
The one thing that really stuck with me about yesterday was the incredible number of people who stared at us as we went along. I’m not sure if it was because we were tracking along behind Amber like creepers or if it was because she was “blind.” I just have to wonder if people who are blind get started at quite as much as Amber did. It was just unreal. People who weren’t staring were falling over themselves just to get out of Amber’s way. I can totally see how social interactions are hard for blind people. Once you combine the internal issues like not having concepts of personal space with the ways others perceive them, it’s really a miracle that any blind person becomes socially competent.
No comments:
Post a Comment