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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
I think it's human nature to avoid strangers. Even though you recognize him, he isn't someone you are aquainted with and there is nothing to say you need to go out of your way to aquaint yourself with him.
Once I was walking and there was a man in my path handing things out to people who passed. I started to freak out that he was going to hand me something. As I got closer my mind was racing that I didn't want anything, but it was the only way to go, because I saw another man across the street doing the same thing. So once I came up to him, he tried to hand me a pamplet and I screamed at him to leave me alone and don't hand me things. He looked utterly terrified that I was going to hit him or something, instead I just ran away.
So, sometimes it's just better to avoid. I don't think it has anything to do with anyone being disabled or not. People like to point fingers, but you don't know what someone is going through in their own mind.
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No, that is not it for me. Just the other day, also on the way to SB, a middle-aged ripped bicyclist stops by me in an intersection and starts talking politics. I disagree with his view, but what am I - an idiot to argue on the streets? - so I just nod and smile. He says his name, asks for mine, smiles, wishes me a very good day and takes off. Completely out of the blue. I was actually used to such things in my youth, and I was pleased that they are still happening - it is like proof that it is too early for me to write myself off as unattractive. Completely out of the blue.
And we have a bookstore next to which cute boys from Greenpeace distribute petitions. I know it and I start gesturing with my hand beforehand to signal that I should be left alone. They obey. So I can deal with that too.
It is more along the lines of Cocoabeans' post, I think.