Those kids are so lucky I went through school with no materials it was terrible I actually didn’t have any books at all for all of my high school years finally I was able to get a single textbook for the very last year I was in high school my teachers hand enlarged portions of a book for me and it was terrible because I was actually taken out of class as I can remember taking computer class and when they found out I couldn’t see they just took me out and help me staple First for the rest of the year I didn’t have storybooks when we were reading in class I couldn’t follow along with the students you can imagine how angry I was when I found out that there was such things as braille books in print books and they were accessible in my head of my special programs department for reasons I’ve never found out just decided she wasn’t going to get them for me and she wasn’t gonna let me have them and my mother even called the school and said I will purchase the books for my daughter so my daughter will have books and they told her no they wouldn’t allow her to do it they told her she was not allowed to do that so I simply didn’t have books . Actually discovered on my own arm about a place called American printing house for the blind and I found out there was raise graph paper I can remember finding this out because my classmates have been doing graphs and I never could do them and I took it to my teacher and I said look look I found paragraph paper I can feel what they’re doing I can do the same thing and I can’t remember being so happy that I was able to be included for the first time so found paper that was accessible to me i’m able to use a special tan paper with these green lines I cannot use black and white paper and I can remember being so happy to sign paper remember I bought my parents actually purchased this stuff for me wasn’t the school system. I never found out why I was so excluded other than the teacher just for reasons unknown thought that if you’re totally blind you go to the blind school if you’re visually impaired you don’t need accessible materials. In my very last year of high school my mother actually went down to the boy in school and said that you know this is not fair to my daughter I went in and I begged to go to the blind school and he said oh it’s your last year of school you know it it’s not worth moving and oh I also found out that if I were going to the blind school in my state I could stay till I was 21 years of age and nobody told me that either. It was about a year and a half later where are you lost the majority of my vision and basically became blind and you could imagine how lost I was because I had never been around anything for the blind I had not been prepared to be blind I had not been told that there were other ways of reading or doing things Even worse was the fact that our state services for the blind here considered me untrainable because I was both visually impaired legally blind and learning disabled and once they find out that you’re learning disabled at least in my state you’re basically considered untrainable you’re not worth training to be educated to have a job you don’t have that right that’s not true in all states but it’s definitely true in my state my father actually paid for me to go out of state for a month because that was all he could afford to learn how to use a cane and be certified in that so I could later get a service dog. Oh I was also exposed to braille at that time and I found out that although I have severe difficulties using a regular keyboard for whatever reason when I use the six key braille keyboard I can write in braille in just like any other student for some reason that works for me so yeah I mean it it was hard
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