[blindkid] "I like it"

[Penny Duffy]

Today my 8 year old daughter and I had a discussion about braille.  We were
talking about how some kids don't get braille even when it could help them.
 She was than told me about one of her friends (who she has O&M with
sometimes) hates braille.  She told me she really wishes her friend would
give it more of a try.  She than said. "Braille... I like it."  I realize
as I type out those words that it doesn't come across how positive and
happy she was when she said those words.  To say the past year and half has
been hard would be an understatement.  My daughter becoming blind has been
such a journey the past 18 months.  It was so hard  dealing with her
frustrations, impatience and resistance.  She was angry that she had to do
things differently than her classmates.  She was angry that she had to
learn to do things differently.  I will simply horrible at times.    Today
I know it all was worth it. She is reading so well.  She skills are getting
better by the day.  She get it.  She knows that being a braille reader
makes her  a reader and she likes being a reader.

I am going to say something the first time I heard it seemed shocking to me
and now I believe it .  "Braille isn't hard to learn."  Now helping your
6-7 year old strong willed daughter learn to read while she is adjusting to
vision loss was challenging.  We survived and we are both better for it.
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--Penny
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