Making Of Blindness

In The Making of Blind Men , Scott provides an interesting opportunity to internally reflect upon how very similar the methods of developing our personal identities as sighted people are to the methods used by the visually impaired. The only major difference is that the societal stimuli offered to each party conflicts. We as a society expect specific traits to be displayed by a blind person, when these expectations are not met we are dumbfounded. We gawk and ask ourselves “How could a blind person do something that ““normal”” people can do?” even though there is no real reason why they can’t. There is no inherent trait that coincides with blindness, being visually impaired does not result in an individual displaying traits commonly associated with being blind (dependency, docility, complacency, neediness, etc.). Nor are traits that are commonly disassociated with blindness any more …show more content…
The early interactions between parent and child are incredibly influential and the parents expectations can change the course the child is set on and can alter the life they will live. The impact of these expectations is magnified when the child in question cannot see. A new parent of a sighted child would not be compelled to prevent their child from exploring their environment or trying new things, but a parent of a visually impaired child would be. Though there are instances where the parent of either child would act in the same way (pulling their child away from danger, preventing them from participating in dangerous activities, etc.), the parent of the sightless child is much more likely to respond to smaller dangers, for example, pulling off a blind child who was climbing on monkey bars with the same fear and adrenaline experienced when scooping up a wandering toddler out of the trajectory of a moving