Just Leave Me Alone

I am tired of people wanting to talk to me about my disability. I am inundated with email requests from people or organizations who want me to fill out some survey or attend some meeting. It annoys me.

Since I am registered with the Centre for Students with Disabilities, they pass on emails and requests. I don’t necessarily think the Centre expects us to follow up but they are required to forward this stuff to us automatically. They send the emails individually so it’s not like everyone sees other people’s email addresses. It is all very private and maybe there is nothing wrong with that. I just don’t feel like responding. I guess I could take my name off their mailing list though.

I think that it’s nice that people are curious enough to want to understand and learn about our disabilities but I feel that if people are sending me an email, then they are not really that interested as opposed to someone standing there . If I want to talk to someone I don’t know, they need to ask me in person. But then again, I don’t really need to talk to them because I have already been speaking with counsellors at the Centre. Why would I respond to someone I don’t know when I can talk perfectly fine to somebody I do know?

When I receive dozens of emails from unknown people, how do I know if it’s junk mail or not? At one time, many of us received emails to our university account pretending to be from the Centre and requesting our names and passwords. These emails weren’t from the centre yet many people stupidly replied with their personal information and then people got into their accounts. You have to be really careful about and aware of stuff like this.