Blog posts that discuss what life is like to be blind, from growing up to day to day life
A Romance between two outsiders It was another dull, rainy and drab Monday morning. I thought of pulling a sicky but then I thought of how dishonest that would be and how it may tempt fate and also of how unfair it would be on my colleagues so I showered, breakfasted, pulled on my clothes […]
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THE BROKEN LEAF Everything is connected and when one thing breaks, everything else reacts. Miss Hastings who had won an award when she lived in Sussex which meant that nobody living near her now could really be sure if that was her name or just her competition sobriquet was weird. She’d spent years in a
Memory Systems in Autism Both my friend and I have asperger’s syndrome a form of autism. As you may know, no two people with autism are the same just like no two people without autism are the same. One trait of autism is an amazing memory for facts and information, we can have a brain
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My parents both came from big families. Maybe that is what prompted their outlandish ideas. Nicholas Cunningham braced himself for another long week at the chalk face. Teaching increasingly ill mannered, tired and undisciplined children was becoming more irksome by the week. First of all, each incidence of bad behaviour now had to be put
THE SECRET. When children are travelling from the special place to this world where most grow up to be big people who have children of their own, they bring with them a special box. This is why their mothers say that it hurts when they are born. Inside the box are two secrets: Love and
Not a moan, but a plea! This isn’t a moan but rather a plea for whomever is responsible to make their websites accessible to screen readers so blind and partially sighted people can access them and where applicable, write to the appropriate people. Let me elaborate:I have read several books via the RNIB reading service
Zoo Time On the Tuesday after arriving in Dubbo, a very kind support worker of K’s who has known her since she was a child, took the time to take us all Taranga Western Plains zoo. I thought it’d be like a British zoo where you could hear and even smell the place but far
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Destination Dubbo I spent the time before flying to Australia worrying in case the planes came down and the fact that Lisa’s children would be left motherless and it would all be my fault although she did offer to go with me to see my friend K. I thought of us floating about in the
Why Me? This is a question which has many answers when it comes to why individual people are given suffering of any sort to undergo. One answer is that it’s random. Another is that it’s a test of fortitude and endurance. Yet one more answer is that it is a punishment from an angry god
If I asked you what someone blind and with Asperger’s has in common with all people everywhere, regardless of disability, religious affiliation, no religion and both sexes what would you say?My guess is:“Nothing. I mean these people are helpless, burdensome, trying to be with and perhaps something in common with skilled maths students or musicians