Blindness and discrimination

The word of the day today is discrimination.

Discrimination – Word of the Day Challenge (wordpress.com)

Disabled people on the whole face a lot of discrimination.

Being blind, I have faced my fare share.

I have been denied access to places, I have not been able to gain access to some places, I have been denied things that would make my life easier in my education, I have also been denied interviews for certain jobs.

Some people think that if your blind you can’t do anything, and that just isn’t true.

Others think a certain way about blind people. They think we sit around at home all day every day and we can’t be independent.

True that nowadays, I am not as independent as I’d like to be, but in my life time I have been able to walk around the city where I live alone, I have been able…