Editors note: From time to time I publish guest articles to the DisabilityNation site. The following was written by Katherine Schneider, Ph.D. Ms. Schneider is a retired clinical psychologist and Senior Psychologist, Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

I can't decide whether or not to picket the movie "Blindness" when it comes to a theater in Eau Claire. It's an allegory, I know, but the images in it of blind people groping and behaving badly will stay in the back of people's minds. I know--I've been blind from birth and have battled those negative images for 59 years.