On the Blindschools list, a list for people who attended schools for the blind, there’s a discussion going on about the positives and negatives of our education there. I’ve been thinking about some issues related to this lately. My parents and I have radically different opinions on some issues related to it, but when I [...]
Archive for October, 2004
Reflections on My Education and Support Workers
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Blindness, Special Education on October 31, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Blindness and Appearance
Posted in Blindness on October 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the hairdresser yesterday and that made me think about the influence my blindness has on my appearance.
I could discuss that on two levels. The first is the very literal one – how I look different as a direct consequence of my blindness. That would only be an issue if my eyes appeared [...]
Memories of Sight
Posted in Blindness on October 26, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I went into the kitchen. I sat down and asked Dad if there was coffee. I felt over the table for I don’t remember what, and my hand hit the coffee can. I felt weird, cause our coffee can is dark blue and the table’s light brown. Plus, it’s so large and it [...]
Thougfhts on Wanting to Discuss Some Things
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Blindness, Journaling, Personal on October 25, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know what I shall write about. There are a lot of things I want to write about, but I cannot really get started. I feel I’d be whiney if I did. There are a lot of issues with my blindness that I feel I need to sort out, but I don’t know where [...]
Political Thoughts
Posted in Politics and Current Events on October 23, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I had an interesting discussion with my parents yesterday. It was about politics, religion and the left-right spectrum. I think that it isn’t really all related. A person may be progressive on some topics, but conservative on others. I myself say I’m a liberal on some topics (like gay rights, immigration and freedom of religion), [...]
Thoughts on Using and Appreciating Vision
Posted in Blindness on October 21, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Last Monday, I walked to the shopping centre with Dad. He had to discard garbage, and so we visited the place where the garbage containers are. “I see lots of containers here,” I said to confirm that I knew that we were in that place. (I cannot remember the exact context of my comment.) “If [...]
More on Coping with Blindness and Behaviour Problems
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Blindness, Personal on October 20, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Most of my tantrums start out over things that are somehow related to my blindness, but does that mean that the issue is a blindness problem or is even related to blindness? I am not sure. I know that I have a very bad attitude about my blindness. I have problems with blindness is many [...]
Very Frustrated Rant about Having to Rub Along
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Blindness, Personal on October 15, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I feel really bad. All sorts of issues are spinning through my mind again, and they’re driving me crazy. I threw several horrible tantrums lately, and all started out over very little things and ended going about issues of blindness, having to hold on, becoming independent, and the question if something more than blindness is [...]
More Thoughts on Independence and Vision Loss
Posted in Blindness on October 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote on Friday (well, Saturday night) about amount of residual vision and its relation (or lack thereof) to independence. I realize that there’s no relation – often, it’s more about the right balance between visual and non-visual techniques -, and that using one’s residual vision too much and not relying on alternative techniques may [...]
A Conversation with a Cab Driver
Posted in Blindness on October 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday, I went to the shopping centre, and at some point I got a bit lost. Not really so that it was a problem to me, but it was to passers-by. One of these was a cab driver, but I didn’t recognise him. He called my name seveal times, but I didn’t respond. Pretty [...]
