Thank you so much for the encouraging comment. I feel so out of practice but also feel strongly about discussing issues that affect people with site loss. Asserting myself into a setting that is filled with nonverbal communication has always been a problem but I am working on new techniques to compensate. Again, thanks so much for connecting and hope you are well and having a wonderful week! Love, Beverly
Hi Beverly, I truly agree with you about not being able to read nonverbal communication. When I am at a big gathering with family and friends, they usually sit me down in a certain spot. Then if I ever want to move to a different area or need to use the restroom, I asked someone for assistance and they usually help me out. Keep up the excellent videos.
Yes Jennifer, that is how it usually goes for me at gatherings. In the past, I had enough vision to go anywhere and do anything in the environment but still could not recognize faces. Now that I can’t recognize anything clearly in my environment, hosts just tend to seat me, usually in A prominent place but for extended family members who have known me all of my life, it doesn’t sink in that I can’t just jump up out of my chair and go to where they are congregated and join in the fun. I have really struggled with this over the past five or six years and this year was different because I used a different method to socialize. It’s really good connecting with people who understand and I appreciate you sharing your experiences with me and watching the videos. Have a great upcoming week! Love, Beverly
Very good advice! Communication is very important.. However I struggle sometimes with dictating details not coming off arrogant or demanding. It is definitely a struggle coming off as condescending.
You are right! Both of my parents come from large families. I have a lot of trouble recognizing people. I have some vision, but I still can’t determine who people are. I also have trouble with knowing when people are talking to me in public. I don’t know if anyone else has trouble hearing and understanding people who are walking ahead of me in public. My mother has realized that I am having trouble with this lately. I don’t know if I am concentrating too hard on where I am walking, or I am having hearing trouble.
Hi Kimberly, you bring up a very good point about the inability to hear people speaking, especially when the general public thinks that we all have super hearing. Lol. It might not be a bad idea to get an audiology check up, because we do all rely on our hearing so very much. But you may have already hit the nail on the head, so to speak, since you are hyper focusing on where you are going and your physical safety. That makes sense to so many of us and the blind community. Stay safe and thanks again for connecting, my Bama friend! Love, Beverly
It was hard for me to become the person to initiate communication, but I just had to start doing it, and got in the most practice of it riding the fixed bus routes. I used to ride it all the time, for about fifteen years solid, but it is more difficult than it used to be, these last nine years, even though there's no real good reason for that. It is a problem bus driver or two situation, mixed with a different company getting the bid for management a few years back, that took a lot of advances made in accessibility progress by the previous company back several steps. The access is built in, some personnel are the problem. Anyway, besides how that is going, I just got used to having to be the one to explain extemporaneously, and sort of take the role of the extroverted person, whenever I can sense that people aren't sure what to do or say. I think this also started to develop more naturally in me when I wanted to find out what all was in each door of a fairly large strip mall every now and then. I knew what some places were, but never paid much attention to the rest. So, I just started opening each door as I came to it, and sticking my head in and saying, "I was just wondering what business this is, and there's only one way for me to find out!" The people were generally happy to tell me and I found out things I would've never noticed sighted, and in my car in the parking lot. I need to start doing that again, because it helped me develop a rapport with business owners I'd usually never get to know. They seemed excited to get to meet after having watched myself and another friend who is also blind just out and about shopping and having lunch, figuring out things as we went along. My friend was a little more shy about that, but in the computer store she was able take over for me where I wouldn't know where to begin, on what specifications to ask for in a computer or stereo system. The bus though, and all my doctor's receptionists, got me memorizing what I needed to say as soon as I got on after establishing it was indeed the bus, and which bus. It would feel like standing in the wings of a stage, and thinking, "What are the words I need to start with?" "...and the interval? ....and four and breath." Once it was started, the rest would usually be easy enough for me to continue. Now it doesn't bother as much when I completely space out something as it used to. I know it will come back to me, as it always would before we arrived at the transfer station. Now trying to hold names of a lot of new people I'm meeting all at once is a whole other trick.
Hi Audrey, I think you could be a great example and a very good ambassador for those of us who live with vision loss or really, any other disability. I agree that it really helps to have that pre-planned verbiage, conversation starter that just makes sense to the general population. It not only breaks the ice but let them know that we are just regular people living a regular life, or trying our best to do so. Your technique for opening and establishment door and just asking “which store is this“, is an excellent example of accommodating a vision loss while still getting to where you need to go and meeting new people along the way. Super techniques! So good to be reconnected with you and my friends on RUclips once again. Hope you will have a wonderful upcoming week! Love, Beverly
Hey Jannell, thanks for the congrats and I find it really strange that you noticed the 300 subscriber number before my YT Studio did and your comment came six hours later than you posted it and like I have always said and felt, this channel is mostly about friendships and connections and hopefully an interesting view into my life on my blind journey. Not intended to generate an income or secondary income or anything else except sharing my life and experiences with others and hopefully encouraging those viewers who are going through any kind of difficulty. Hugs and wags, Beverly and Gretchen
Sounds like someone could be getting some real mail! Gretchen will bark when the mail carrier opens our mailbox to deliver the , Mostly junk mail, but Gretchen doesn’t know that. She then finds me somewhere in the house two lead me to the front door and if we go out and retrieve the mail and come back into the house, she doesn’t stop for love and pets but continues to pull me directly into Jerry‘s office to deliver the mail. So I guess in her dog brain, all mail is Jerry‘s mail. That’s really OK with me since it’s mostly junk mail and bills. Lol! I will have Gretchen on alert and thanks for the heads up so excited! Love, Beverly and Gretchen
Oh Em Gee! Jerry heard the mail delivery while I was playing with Gretchen inside. I have videoed the response that Gretchen displayed upon receipt of her mail. Just watch for my next video. I was completely blown away with the entire episode! Thank you, Thank you! Thank you!!!
Lovely sharing my friend. 👍 Fully watched. See you around
Thank you so much for the encouraging comment. I feel so out of practice but also feel strongly about discussing issues that affect people with site loss. Asserting myself into a setting that is filled with nonverbal communication has always been a problem but I am working on new techniques to compensate. Again, thanks so much for connecting and hope you are well and having a wonderful week! Love, Beverly
Hi Beverly, I truly agree with you about not being able to read nonverbal communication. When I am at a big gathering with family and friends, they usually sit me down in a certain spot. Then if I ever want to move to a different area or need to use the restroom, I asked someone for assistance and they usually help me out. Keep up the excellent videos.
Yes Jennifer, that is how it usually goes for me at gatherings. In the past, I had enough vision to go anywhere and do anything in the environment but still could not recognize faces. Now that I can’t recognize anything clearly in my environment, hosts just tend to seat me, usually in A prominent place but for extended family members who have known me all of my life, it doesn’t sink in that I can’t just jump up out of my chair and go to where they are congregated and join in the fun. I have really struggled with this over the past five or six years and this year was different because I used a different method to socialize. It’s really good connecting with people who understand and I appreciate you sharing your experiences with me and watching the videos. Have a great upcoming week! Love, Beverly
Very good advice! Communication is very important.. However I struggle sometimes with dictating details not coming off arrogant or demanding. It is
definitely a struggle coming off as condescending.
You are right! Both of my parents come from large families. I have a lot of trouble recognizing people. I have some vision, but I still can’t determine who people are. I also have trouble with knowing when people are talking to me in public. I don’t know if anyone else has trouble hearing and understanding people who are walking ahead of me in public. My mother has realized that I am having trouble with this lately. I don’t know if I am concentrating too hard on where I am walking, or I am having hearing trouble.
Hi Kimberly, you bring up a very good point about the inability to hear people speaking, especially when the general public thinks that we all have super hearing. Lol. It might not be a bad idea to get an audiology check up, because we do all rely on our hearing so very much. But you may have already hit the nail on the head, so to speak, since you are hyper focusing on where you are going and your physical safety. That makes sense to so many of us and the blind community. Stay safe and thanks again for connecting, my Bama friend! Love, Beverly
It was hard for me to become the person to initiate communication, but I just had to start doing it, and got in the most practice of it riding the fixed bus routes. I used to ride it all the time, for about fifteen years solid, but it is more difficult than it used to be, these last nine years, even though there's no real good reason for that. It is a problem bus driver or two situation, mixed with a different company getting the bid for management a few years back, that took a lot of advances made in accessibility progress by the previous company back several steps. The access is built in, some personnel are the problem. Anyway, besides how that is going, I just got used to having to be the one to explain extemporaneously, and sort of take the role of the extroverted person, whenever I can sense that people aren't sure what to do or say. I think this also started to develop more naturally in me when I wanted to find out what all was in each door of a fairly large strip mall every now and then. I knew what some places were, but never paid much attention to the rest. So, I just started opening each door as I came to it, and sticking my head in and saying, "I was just wondering what business this is, and there's only one way for me to find out!" The people were generally happy to tell me and I found out things I would've never noticed sighted, and in my car in the parking lot. I need to start doing that again, because it helped me develop a rapport with business owners I'd usually never get to know. They seemed excited to get to meet after having watched myself and another friend who is also blind just out and about shopping and having lunch, figuring out things as we went along. My friend was a little more shy about that, but in the computer store she was able take over for me where I wouldn't know where to begin, on what specifications to ask for in a computer or stereo system. The bus though, and all my doctor's receptionists, got me memorizing what I needed to say as soon as I got on after establishing it was indeed the bus, and which bus. It would feel like standing in the wings of a stage, and thinking, "What are the words I need to start with?" "...and the interval? ....and four and breath." Once it was started, the rest would usually be easy enough for me to continue.
Now it doesn't bother as much when I completely space out something as it used to. I know it will come back to me, as it always would before we arrived at the transfer station.
Now trying to hold names of a lot of new people I'm meeting all at once is a whole other trick.
Hi Audrey, I think you could be a great example and a very good ambassador for those of us who live with vision loss or really, any other disability. I agree that it really helps to have that pre-planned verbiage, conversation starter that just makes sense to the general population. It not only breaks the ice but let them know that we are just regular people living a regular life, or trying our best to do so. Your technique for opening and establishment door and just asking “which store is this“, is an excellent example of accommodating a vision loss while still getting to where you need to go and meeting new people along the way. Super techniques! So good to be reconnected with you and my friends on RUclips once again. Hope you will have a wonderful upcoming week! Love, Beverly
Congratulations on 300!🎉🎉🎉
Hey Jannell, thanks for the congrats and I find it really strange that you noticed the 300 subscriber number before my YT Studio did and your comment came six hours later than you posted it and like I have always said and felt, this channel is mostly about friendships and connections and hopefully an interesting view into my life on my blind journey. Not intended to generate an income or secondary income or anything else except sharing my life and experiences with others and hopefully encouraging those viewers who are going through any kind of difficulty. Hugs and wags, Beverly and Gretchen
Tell Gretchen to keep an eye on your mailbox 📬♥️
Sounds like someone could be getting some real mail! Gretchen will bark when the mail carrier opens our mailbox to deliver the , Mostly junk mail, but Gretchen doesn’t know that. She then finds me somewhere in the house two lead me to the front door and if we go out and retrieve the mail and come back into the house, she doesn’t stop for love and pets but continues to pull me directly into Jerry‘s office to deliver the mail. So I guess in her dog brain, all mail is Jerry‘s mail. That’s really OK with me since it’s mostly junk mail and bills. Lol! I will have Gretchen on alert and thanks for the heads up so excited! Love, Beverly and Gretchen
@@bamablind9916 It is amazing how these dogs fall into habit. Five-0 does the same. He has one simple bark. Just one. Silly. 🤦😂
Oh Em Gee! Jerry heard the mail delivery while I was playing with Gretchen inside. I have videoed the response that Gretchen displayed upon receipt of her mail. Just watch for my next video. I was completely blown away with the entire episode! Thank you, Thank you! Thank you!!!