[Jim]

My wife is blind and uses a German Shepherd trained as a Seeing Eye Dog. We frequently walk through the city of Birmingham together. Nearly every day she inadvertently frightens people with her dog as they innocently walk down the sidewalk. 99.9% of the people she frightens are black, mostly female, but some men, too. To me it looks like something that is almost instinctual, like fear of snakes. It happens so often that it is starting to get on our nerves. We just want to say to them something like, ‘get a life, it’s just a dog’, but of course we do not. Mostly we just continue on our way to our destination, and my wife being blind is oblivious to the looks and non verbal language.

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Name : Jim, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : Blind, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Pagan, Age : 51, City : Birmingham, State : AL, Country : United States, Occupation : Blind Rehabilitation, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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