(Readers note: the questioner is a cross between the Id and a river mule…)
Q. Did they always treat you unfairly? And when did you first notice this?
No, not always. I had a full day of happiness in 1959 when I was four years old. I had a stuffed monkey and a wooden top. The top whistled when spinning. As for the monkey, I talked to it. The loss of one’s virginity to unfairness doesn’t happen suddenly. I was a disabled child. Spent a lot of time alone. It dawns on you, even when young, there’s a yin and yang to solitude. As a friend of mine who’s blind says, “sighted people suck.
Q. Did you ever want to stomp on the sighted people?
No. They’re outwitted by the complexities of nature.
Q. What have you learned as a disabled person teaching in universities?
In meetings with faculty and administrators I scrawl signs behind my eyelids.
Planet of the Blind 