This is my point of view: maybe the people are afraid to say or make something rude.
the person speaks to the person next to you: Maybe they think, that when they speak to you, that you will not recognise this. And that this can be rude or make a situation that is not nice. I am wondering, what will happen, when the blind has his name on his shirt. Maybe the people will be more confidential and call the blind directly ?

The most of seeing people are afraid of dark. They depend very much on their eyes. Other sense are not used very often or actively.
I think that the people are very interested in the other "worlds" (people with disabilities). But they are afraid, and so they ask stupid questions.

Ok the teacher (the examples here) are really rude. They should be more open to other things.
But it can also be that they are very afraid. They are responsible for their pupils.
Maybe a teacher training to learn more about this topics would be great.

I started with Game Accessibility and of course I know that I have to learn very lot of things. I have to rethink lot of things.
Like blind gamer can play 3D Games. It is possible to use a menu also with on button. But I think it is impossible to learn/ to know such things when people do not try it out. I used Terrestrial Invaders (a game that is very accessible), but I did not recognised that the menu is amazing. I saw it, when I was looking for a solution for one buttons.

Summary: when someone seems to be rude, maybe he do not want to be rude. Because they do not have any experience with it, they behave strange.

Most people simply do not think, or even (as I said earlier in this topic)), considder Vi people as people in a serious sense to themselves. Quite often i've found that sinse sight is such a pervasive sense (I certainly use mine a lot despite not having much at all), people will assume that they require site to do something when it's actually a different sense, --- such as sense of balance, which is involved. this is why i've taken to asking people when they ask me if I need help getting up stairs "why would I? hhow much do you need to see to get up stairs"

The story about me trying to persuade people to let me erform on stage is even longer, nastier and more complicated as well.

I will say the question which most annoys me, beyond anything else is "is there someone else with you?" I remember I had a wonderful example of that last year. a very condiscending old geezer sat down beside me in the theatre, and asked me in a "speaking to idiots" type of way whether I liked the music of the production, and said how well I did. A woman i'd met at breakfast in my hotel sat down earby and said hello. Old geezer immediately exclaimed "Oh! so he came with you" at which point the lady replied in a quite irritated tone "No, he's here on ihis own I only met him this morning and hardly know him at all"

Interestingly enough the next morning she said "You must find that sort of thing really irritating"

One amusing tale about help and toilets which Sandra's post reminded me of. The other day I was coming out of a small theatre. A woman asked me if I knew where i was going (a very silly question), and if she could help me get there. i replied sincerely that yes I knew where I was going, but would rather she didn't accompany me, then promptly went up the stairs to the Gents toilet, ---- she was actually quite amused as well, and appologised.

I'm not sure though Sandra Fear is the term, I think it's just not thinking properly.

I am very interested of things will go on with mainstream games. There is an award for games in Europe. But they do not have a criterion for Game Accessibility. I wrote them, that they should add this.

Maybe we need really a test, where someone wears the name on his/her shirt.
I am very interested if this can help.
Or maybe you have to wear a shirt with "please talk to me, i am not deaf". (this is a joke)
I did not know, that there are such problems.

Yeha, that is wrong on so many levels.

Separate exe? Nope just make it a config option, perhaps with a question in the installer or the requirement to give a parameter to the exe on startup the first time. Something like if it was say "traider.exe" you might run it with "traider.exe -vi" or "traider.exe -blind" in the shortcut instead. Most of the code would be reusable betwene both, 3d sound being a definite benefit to everyone just that the VI version requires additional sounds.

Similarly with other disability versions, you just make it a config option. This also helps stop a situation where one version might be updated and not another, and so on. See Terraformers for a good example of making it optional, they even included high contrast mode for people with limited sight without making it a requirement to run it as a separate exe.

I'm sorry, but I despair if anyone who actually suggested a separate .exe actually calls themself a programmer.

One thing that kind of anoyed  me was when a kid from school mentioned me to his friends at this church he goes to.  Immediately after he told his frends I was blind, they asked, "Is he retardet or something?"

First of course some people will be curious, it's human nature.

Second, and I can't stress this enough, getting someone to hurt them is never the answer. That does neither you nor other blind people any favours.

Hmmmm Ivandrago, not a great response unless your planning to go into the mafia. Pluss, as I said above, it's always better to fix those sorts of situations yourself if you can, then people will recognize that your a capable human being.

people will be curious, it's just natural, that's why as I said, learning to be a good advocate and explain to people in a reasonable way is absolutely necessary, ---- assuming they're reasonable humans to begin with. If they aren't, ---- then there's no point bothering with them, ---- like the people Cj mentioned.

the mean one was a loner aswell and was bullied badly already. Thats why he was mean to evryone he came across.

I'm not sure to be honest Ivan. apart from my family, i only know two Vi people and both of them only at long distance over the phone. all of my friends are fully sited, and like yours, have nothing to do with vi people, ---- I was the only Vi person in my entire uni for an incredibly long time,  in fact I think I stil am.

I'm sorry to say, I've run into my share of unpleasant people as well as the decent ones, ---- see my first post in this topic for some of the details.

Btw Ivan, rather than multiple posting, you might considder using the "eddit" button below your original post if you want to add something, ---- it makes reading what you say less long winded for the rest of us. Okay, i'll take my moderator hat off now.

the one problem is that most of the time, you can't tell mean from sheerly bloody minded or tactless. One person I knew, when i first met him said very loudly "why do you carry that stick?" when i explain that I was visually impared, he said "oh, that's why your right eye looks so weerd"

After establishing that he was a maths student, I conclusively prooved to him that actually sinse numbers were a purely human construction onto the universe, and had nothing to do with reality other than shaping our perceptions of it, he was actually studdying nothing at all.

he was quite amused, and we actually ended up by becoming friends. In fact, sinse he was a big games programming type, we had a lot of discussions of audio games theory.

Both sound amazingly bloody minded, ---- while I've had some incidence of being asked to draw things, ---- I've never had a teacher or lecturer complain at my laptop headphones.

I've had the odd question (most recently while using my laptop in the net access pub at buxton), which I usually respond to by just yanking my headphones out and letting people here Hal, ----- but I've never had a complaint.

while probably not the best response, creddit to your school mates for actually being bothered enough on your behalf.

In the pencil type circumstances, I usually ask "how do I do that?" and leave the ownus on the other person, ---- just to make them actualy think rather than me telling them, ---- I also use this tactic when people ask me if I need to use the lift, ---- "and why would I need to use the lift?"