A blog post created for BeautifullyBlind.com<\/p>\n
Accepting My Blindness<\/p>\n
As I pass through so many worlds, so many lives each day, I wish my Scarlet Letter was not my defining impression. My blindness does not define me. And to those who don\u2019t understand I begin to write\u2026<\/p>\n
If I never accepted my blindness I would join you in a notion of pity and share a tear of sadness with you. And, yet, there would come a day when we would cry no more, no more tears, no more sadness because we would grow to an acceptance of our fate. Yours to mine and mine to yours. Let that day be today where we accept and turn our attention towards tomorrow and today. I am me and I am blind. You are you and together with acceptance we both can move on. I move on differently and today, to me, so do you.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I\u2019ll do as I do and you will as you do, too. My ways of my methods and my alternative techniques shine like oddities in this perfect world where we reside. Unto me I face the challenges of blending in and I am an autonomist going about my way, going about my day where some think I strayed. I belong on this broken trail of zig and zag, tappity tap tap, slaunching to the right and bumping to the left. My dance is quite chaotic to those unaware of my shoes. But to you, with acceptance, I\u2019m right there where I intended, in this perfect world\u2026equally with you.<\/p>\n
Do we accept people and their differences as much as we think we do? Does my presence create the \u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo\u201d effect as I criss cross through this perfect world? I accept all of this and that is why I am out there, being Waldo, being the glitch out of sync with perfection\u2019s tolerances. I am OK, I accept it, and I\u2019m not blind to me being blind.
\nI see differently today but more clearly than ever before. And like Beautifully Blind states: I see through my heart.
\nThanks for the vision Robin and Thanks for the Beauty you and Toni bring to blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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