Stereotyping...people have a lot of perceptions of blind people and it's really

subconscious because you're around blind people all the time

but society kind of

promotes this idea that blind people are

less capable or need to be taken care of,

or you need to be extra sensitive on what you say or in things of that nature and

it's kinda promoted on the subconscious level so a lot of people have these

stereotypes about blind people

and some of them know it and some of them don't even realize that they know it

soul when they confront blind people they tend to

treat them

as less then equal

by doing various things like talking to another person that may be with them

instead of talking to directly to them,

unnecessarily changing around their words, avoiding certain words that they

may think offend blind people

and otherwise maybe a group of people getting quiet when a blind

person walks by because of it's an uncomfortable experience,

things of that nature and it goes on and on

so I think stereotypes are subconsciously built into people's mindsets based on

how society functions.