Sandi Wassmer
Viewing entries posted in September 2010
Life’s lessons are gifts that come in unexpected packages
I regularly ponder the meaning of life and try to make sense of things, with little success, but recently, when a friend's father passed away, I had a rather strange epiphany of sorts, which began fermenting at the funeral. Although I haven't managed to find any answers wholesale, I did arrive at a better understanding of human nature, which I know will help me along my journey, so I thought I would share what I have learnt
Learning to let go: how disability reformed this control freak
I have always been a self-confessed control freak. Variations on this term have long been in my vernacular, dispensed willy nilly to excuse all sorts of obstinate behaviour or as a last vestige when things weren't quite going my way. And because I am a pretty decent person overall, these little quips have broadly been ignored or tolerated by most and thrown out with the emotional trash as one of life's little trade offs. And as I am always learning and striving to be a better person, this is not a characteristic that I am particularly fond of.
The relationship between disability and accessibility
I am in a bit of a quandary about the relationship between disability and accessibility. From the disability perspective, it is perfectly reasonable for disabled folk to expect things to be accessible. It is law in the UK, designed to sit within the wider framework of equality and human rights for all citizens, and that is certainly where I'm at. In addition to this, as the term disability covers almost one fifth of the UK population and is as wide and varied as a group that size can be, it is also perfectly reasonable that people whose broad needs can be somehow grouped and identified under different sub-categories in order to facilitate access, are able to do so.
Businesswoman Sandi Wassmer registered blind in 2008. In her blog, she shares with us the 'shenanigans of visual impairment'. Find Sandi on Google+
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