The Frustrating Side of Being Blind ... The number one frustration of being blind is how other people talk to you. With visually impaired people being relatively few and far between, many members of the sighted community do not know that communicating with a blind person is much the same as communicating to anyone else.
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www.blindawareness.com/spreadingtheword/frustration.php
www.blindawareness.com/spreadingtheword/frustration.php
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The Freedom Bell kernel book number 2 ... BEING BLIND (My true story) ... I was born blind. I could read large print until I was 5. Now I'm 10 and totally blind. I go to a public school. Being blind requires a 10-pound Brailler and a cane about one meter long. The more I grow, the bigger the cane.
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nfb.org/legacy/books/kernel1/kern0204.htm
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An article by Oliver Sacks from The New York Review of Books, June 13, 1991.
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www.nybooks.com/articles/3239
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･ 1 Understand you specific condition. Know that all blindness is not he same. For example,one blindness... ･ 2 Learn and master the braille system. Braille is a system of raised dots which was created as communication... ･ 3 Develop a stro...
http://www.ehow.com/how_2331077_cope-being-blind.html
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American Council of the Blind, is the largest organization of blind and visually impaired people in the United States. ACB has affiliates in all 50 states as well as several professional and special interest affiliates. ... Welcome to the website for the American Council of the Blind. This service provides general...
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I began to realize that being blind was proving to be a barrier in my meeting gay people. I decided that, perhaps the problem was the fact that I was overweight. So, I decided to go to a Mirth and Girth dance. Surely, there would be people much heavier than I was, and surely I'd have a better time.
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www.chanton.com/blindandgay.html
www.chanton.com/blindandgay.html
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Blind people will find this page borring, because they already know that being blind is just that, being blind. For you sighted folks, being blind is what you would call normal to us. Being blind for us is exactly like being sighted for you in the sense that we don't notice anything wrong with us every minute of every day.
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www.adamm.ca/blind.html
www.adamm.ca/blind.html
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To me being blind is probably the worst thing that can happen to anyone. Not seeing where you are going. Not being able to tell if you grabbed Count Chocula or Lucky Charms. Tripping over unseen objects in a hall way or the sidewalk.
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www.mindsay.com/comments/lunchboxla/14
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Searching for truth being blind deaf & dumb I have looked at a few of the recent mysteries and have come to the conclusion that I can only try to help solve them if my own problems are solved The ... I have thought about many, many possibilities: is she is deaf or am I really blind & dumb?
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www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm5774.html
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