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Living with a disability: can those who don't really understand?
I think it is pretty fair to assert that you can never really understand something until you actually experience it. It matters not whether it is the thrill of becoming a parent, the grief of losing someone you love or even the trivial delight that us girls get when we find that perfect pair of shoes.
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.
Does it grow corn?
I have never been a big fan of rules and think I will probably remain a bit of a rebel for the rest of my life, because even now, when faced with having a rule imposed on me, not only do I want to break it, I want to break it twice. And in the same vein, I am also not much of a conformist or big on social convention, and these things do get me into trouble now and again.
Loving someone with a disability: change begets change
When I look back on the incredible amount of change that I have been through since I picked myself up off my backside and decided that registering blind was not the end of the world, I am a little taken aback at how all of this change has transpired so seamlessly. And the changes themselves have been wide and varied - some by design, others by default, some under my control and others well out of my grasp - but the one constant in all of this has been the foundation of love, respect, understanding and encouragement provided so effortlessly by Mark and Martin.
A case of severe red-eye
What better way to end the school year (for those of you who have forgotten or just don’t know who I am, I’m a teacher) than with an eye operation: an enucleation.
Disability from the outside in: perception and reality
Like most people in the world, how I perceive myself and how I feel about myself inside is probably somewhat different to how others perceive me and when you add disability into the mix, this can sometimes yield some rather odd results.
Good times, bad times: coping with disability respectfully and responsibly
Although I regularly refer to myself as a nauseatingly positive person, and overall this is true, I am a person after all and like most people I have my share of good times and bad times.
Disability and independence. Finding the strength to make the right choices
We all make choices in life, some good, some bad and some indifferent, but whatever our circumstances, by being human beings, we are constantly making decisions that affect our lives. Now, I am not suggesting that our circumstances are always a direct result of the decisions we make, as the only thing that caused my blindness is biology, but I do know that wherever you may find yourself right now, the decisions and choices you make from here on in will influence where you are going and how you will get there.
One man’s journey of sight loss
Well hello and welcome to my very first blog for Action for Blind People. I hope to bring some enjoyable and valuable insights into my life as I go about living it.
Comfortably Blind - Part 1
Hi. My name is Shezan Hirjee. If you read Sandi Wassmer's blog, you may recall that I have Glaucoma and after a year of unsuccessful operations, I finally had success and got a healthy amount of my vision back so I decided to chuck in my job and go trekking in Nepal for three months. When I returned and told Sandi all about my experiences, her immediate reaction was to ask me to write about it, so here I am. But, before I went, I did have a few concerns...
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