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[heidi]

question to other comic con attendees - did the visually impared girl do the same "want to see you" thing to anyone other than Milo and Jensen?
Poor Jared to not be someone she wanted to see!
And how much do the Ghostfacers rock?!?

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I do totally understand your feelings - my grandma is almost completely blind and I know how she feels when she can't see someone she really wants to see. I think my issue with the woman yesterday and today is threefold:
1. Her saying almost the exact same thing regarding Milo and then Jensen - maybe seeing both of them was her fondest dream and she just couldn't choose, but asking once would've been fine, and asking twice- when a lot of the same people were in the audience for both - felt pushy, especially when they were the first questions of the day
2. They specifically announce again and again that you can't make a personal request - so I am a little irked if Comic Con didn't tell her yesterday that she shouldn't make such a request again. But that's my issue with Comic Con and not with her.
3. Poor JARED! They were both sitting up there and why couldn't she have asked to see both of them? He needs fangirling too!

Also, I wanted to add this. I have a friend who's on Comic Con's disabled services team, and from where I was at the Heroes panel, at least, yesterday, I could tell that there were a few seats left up until ten minutes before the start time for people with visual or hearing disabilities. Maybe she didn't know about the disabled services aspects, but someone should at least have told her at the Heroes panel yesterday so she'd have known today. But her not knowing is, again, not her fault, but a breakdown in Comic Con's communications to attendees, if that is the case.

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Yep, I can see that busting the rules twice over, for the same reason, would have been irksome to everyone else. Though I haven't been to a convention yet where someone - usually several someones - disregarded various of the con rules when it suited them to do so, to the discomfort either of the guest or the other attendees. All the people who take up extra things for signing, demand hugs and kisses, or push forward their children insisting that little Z will be heartbroken if he doesn't get a picture with his hero... Of all the excuses fans come up with for why they should use up 'common' time with guests to get an extra thirty seconds for themselves, I guess I find hers more plausible, just because there really is something unique about seeing someone you like /admire / crush on with your very own eyes, even if those eyes are a bit crap! And that's something that most other attendees really can do without having to push themselves forward.

As for Jared, I do feel for him, but I'm guessing he probably had a whole room full of people who were all too willing to compensate for a one-fangirl shortfall. At least I hope so!

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Oop, just saw your edit!

Again, that may also reflect her own experience of the reality of disabled services in action at conventions - and I know from some of the responses I got at the time that my experience of being let down was not at all unique.

I know that, no matter what it may say on the websites or in the (amusingly) small print on the tickets, I simply won't ever trust any convention organiser to make good on disability concessions - that undertaking to provide reserved seating, for instance. Once you've been on the receiving end of a whole gaggle of acid-faced strangers looking at you as if you were some scummy liar trying to cheat them out of their birthright, it's not something you do again for fun and frolics, unless you have substantively thicker skin than me.

Putting it bluntly, I wouldn't even trust the assurances of the stewards - not really their fault either, even the biggest and best conventions are notoriously chaotic on the day. And because of that, they're more likely to promote survival of the fittest: that's just how it is.