Example Of Essay On Can A Sited Person Fully Relate To A Blind Person Does This Ever Become An Issue

Many sited people are so wrong by thinking that being blind is about seeing black. Instead they need to realize that blindness is just like any other eye conditions. For instance my eyes failed to form during the early stages of pregnancy, thus I was given birth to with an eye condition known as Anophthalmia also referred to as anophthalmos. Since this is a rare kind of blindness, I had difficulty in answering a number of hard questions about my blindness which were raised by my family and friends. With time I found it very difficult to maintain my relationship with the sited family and friends. I therefore decided to join National Federation of the Blind to equip myself with answers for all kinds of questions about my blindness. The blind people have got ambitions to pursue their dreams and this is why I can now answer you if you were to ask me whether sited people can completely relate with the blind. And as I give an answer to the above question, I will take you through different ways that the sited people relate and do not relate with the blind community.
In my family I am the only one who is blind, so they do not know many beautiful things that a blind person can do. They wanted to keep watch over me like a child, they wanted to get cloth for me, and sometimes they even didn’t want me to use my walking cane when I was out. Though I am blind, I still need to make my own decisions, I need to use the cane to walk independently unless I ask for your arm, otherwise don’t grab my arm but instead let me take yours. In this way the sited people will give me the chance to make my own decisions. I do not need to be directed at dinner because with practice I have learnt the ordinary table skills and I can use them well. The blind person also needs to know the people he/she is talking to, so the sited people should always introduce themselves, including children, cat and dogs that are in the room.
Fear can consume us and give us a bad feeling and could be that’s why sometimes the blind persons think that things happen due to their blinds. According to Amy Wang “Fear can make us over interpret happenstances in our lives and can hurt us a lot”. This is why the blind occasionally think that the sited people shout and yell at them when they don’t get the direction right. They sometimes overreact and over interpret a simple direction guide for raised voice, yell or shout. Furthermore, the fear in the blind person can make them feel that they are pitied by the sited persons and usually, this is not the case.
Wang as noted that “fear affects many in life; it comes in all different forms and can etch itself on to someone and never let go”. This is very true; the blind persons sometimes get hurt a lot when they assume that the sited do not consider their feelings. For instance, my family and my friends would ask me how I can read dots. I got hurt a lot by this statement, because they fail to recognize my feelings as well as valuing me. However, this is not the case since the sited persons also have a fear of using Braille. They think it might take them a lifetime.