My Experience in Public School With a Disability (Visual Impairment)

[@asecretcourtofcrowsandcloc4084]

This was so relatable for me as a fellow VIP who went to public school. I also felt like I noticed the difference between myself and my classmates more as I moved into older grades and there were many times when I couldn’t see something that someone asked me about but I didn’t explain that because it just seamed like to much work and a bit imberissing to do so. Really cool teacher of yours who let you rearrange the classroom like that. I’m sorry to hear that the college you attended didn’t do a better Job of letting yiu know the process for signing up for accommodations. I worked as a student in my college’s access office and I want to work in hire education accessability services and its always disappointing to me how some colleges don’t have a good system for notifying student about their accommodations process.

[@Tainted_Julz_Radio]

Super kool that you are trying to help our younger blind community. I felt the same as I did mobukuty training through guide dogs here in Australia but I too am super grateful that I did it for myself

[@glennatutty2802]

I feel you. I’m visually impaired and nearsighted. Even now, I don’t know where I belong, because if I’m in a group of people who have clear visions, I’m different from them, but if I’m in a group of blind people, I’m also different from them. I encountered some people who have clear vision and been telling me that I am blind even though I am not, they keep telling me that I belong to the blind, I should bring a white cane, I should ask the government to give me a nanny to do my chores, etc because I’m blind which is not. We don’t wanna argue with that kind of person, but it’s disappointing when they think that we are not capable of a lot of things only because our ways of doing our tasks are different than them.

[@ivayaneva]

Hi, Angela :) I'm just like you with congenital aniridia and pretty poor vision. Most of the things you described I felt the same way at school. I commend you on the things you do and share with the audience. I wish you success.

[@hoyatreasures]

I would say you tried to downplay your vision so much that your sister didn’t really even know that you had a problem. I didn’t know about most of it until you were an adult but mostly when you went to graduate school and started this channel. Part of it is because I moved out when you were like 5. I remember you wore the eye patch so I thought the patch just didn’t work and you just had a lazy eye cause that was pretty common in our family. I don’t remember ever even noticing that one of your eyes isn’t “normal” cause I guess I was just used to the way you looked. I’m not sure if these things are good or bad but just how they were. I think you probably thought about it way more than you talked about it. I’m glad you are more open about it now because myself and my children have learned a lot from it.