Blog posts that discuss what life is like to be blind, from growing up to day to day life
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 […]
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
It was in such a lovely environment that I used to hear this “bird” asking in a tempting but rather bird-like voice as you would expect if blind:“Would you like the present”?We had budgies at home so naturally I gave him a friendly whistle so one up for me with the Animal Rights movement but
Esther Ghey, mother of murdered child, Brianna, is calling for kindness to be more evident in children and mindfulness to be taught in schools and who doesn’t want children to be kind? The snag comes when one is dealing with children being raised by neglectful, cruel and abusive care givers. Then, their brains which are
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Acoustic Enjoyment Words: I found out the name for this phenomenon from my friend K and it is a common feature of Asperger’s. I remember being in primary school when my teacher asked me if I had a favourite word. She asked us all this question but never told us why. Whether she was looking
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WHY ARE BLIND PEOPLE SELFISH? This is a provocative title for an essay that I was asked to write as a result of a conversation I had with a professional, to the effect that blindness has psychological as well as physical consequences. He agreed with this and wanted further information so he could more easily
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