[blindkid] When your child realizes she's different....(LoreleiClark)

[Carol Castellano]

Boy, Kasondra, wouldn't it be great if people stopped asking 
partially sighted children what they can see and instead made sure 
they had a skill or a tool to do all the things they wished to do!
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At 03:40 PM 11/18/2008, you wrote:
>I went through that phase at about the same age.  I always knew that I
>couldn't see as well as everybody else, and I got tired of everyone asking
>how much I could see.  I didn't have a lot of blind role models when I was a
>kid; I had peers and my grandfather.  I just wanted to go out and do
>everything else everyone else did regardless of what sight I did or did not
>have.  I am still that way today.  I love teaching people, but blindness is
>not the only focus of my life.  I grew out of that phase of wondering why.
>This is the way God made me, and that is that.  It is my job to go and be
>the best person I can.
>
>Kasondra Payne
>
>
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