ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the journey of the author’s life as a disabled person, which has given her both positive and negative experiences in society. Being partially sighted has allowed her to look at the world through the lens of both sighted and blind people. She has experienced the stigma and discrimination faced by blind people. She has also experienced the frustration that sighted people face in trying to understand blind people. This story is about her personal experiences in both worlds of sightedness and blindness. It is an expression of her hope and desire that the misunderstandings and lack of trust between the two worlds can be cleared when each group makes a deliberate effort to understand the other. The chapter concludes by challenging the two worlds to work together for the development of humanity.