Yeah the first time it happened to me it didn't work because I was just so blatantly surprised that the guy knew I could see him and dragged the girl he was with away and they went to get behind me in the queue.
I was so shocked! This is why it ended up on Facebook; I just needed to share it with somebody. And then a white-cane using friend saw that and was like "oh yeah, that's totally a thing. It's like people talking really loudly and slowly at you once they see you're disabled." Which I think is much more recognized by the general public, the loud-talking, but in my friend's head this was just as normal. And the sneaky queue jumping has happened to me a bunch of times since so now I wouldn't mention it either except like I say I feel lile I had a year off.
People do really think anyone with a white cane has no idea of how they're acting; men stare at me even more blatantly than they do if I don't have the white cane too. Some people really tell you who they are when they think themselves unobserved.
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Date: 2021-05-04 06:52 am (UTC)I was so shocked! This is why it ended up on Facebook; I just needed to share it with somebody. And then a white-cane using friend saw that and was like "oh yeah, that's totally a thing. It's like people talking really loudly and slowly at you once they see you're disabled." Which I think is much more recognized by the general public, the loud-talking, but in my friend's head this was just as normal. And the sneaky queue jumping has happened to me a bunch of times since so now I wouldn't mention it either except like I say I feel lile I had a year off.
People do really think anyone with a white cane has no idea of how they're acting; men stare at me even more blatantly than they do if I don't have the white cane too. Some people really tell you who they are when they think themselves unobserved.