Seeing Blindness Clearly
About the article
The author relates the adjustments in her life as she became blind and outlines many of the challenges and opportunities that are available to members of the Church who are blind. The article also outlines several things that all members can do to help someone who is blind.
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But life isn’t over if you’re blind. A blind person is, after all, a regular person who just happens to be blind.
“Treat me as an individual, just as you would anyone else,” says Leslie Gertsch of Woods Cross, Utah. “Just because once upon a time you knew a blind person who behaved a certain way, don’t expect me to be the same.”
“Getting people to treat me as a ‘normal’ person is one of the hardest things about being blind,” says H. Smith Shumway, a patriarch and father of eight...