[blindkid] When your child realizes she's different....(LoreleiClark)
Carol Castellano
carol_castellano at verizon.net
Tue Nov 18 21:25:18 UTC 2008
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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