Dear Access Indians:
I am Simran Chawla, a visually impaired girl who loves acting. I won a
beauty pageant-Princess India 2016-2017 and was crowned by John
Abraham. I have been a user of Access
India since 2016.
I am writing to this mailing list today, because I wish you to join
our movement in spreading our stories as the visually impaired. We are
capable of doing
everything and anything that we want to do. We can together overcome
discrimination and isolation issue by advancing our movement together.
We will show
we are as equal as everyone.
I am using my acting to share this message with my audience. I am by
no means a renowned actress. However, you and I can together make a
difference.
You can join this movement by one or more of the following actions
1. Share the social media post on this issue - I am writing them as well;
2. Post your story on social media with hashtags - you can see my
story and hashtags below as reference;
3. Introduce me to someone like yourself, those who are working on the
blind awareness issues, WhatsApp group on this matter, journalists
passionate about
this matter, and any influencers on social media such as Facebook,
YouTube, and Instagram;
4. Join my acting as a participating actor - let me write how you can
do this at the end of this email; and
5. More than anything - respond to this email that you are supportive to
me!
Let me now write my story.
I was born with normal eyesight. At the age of five, I got fever and
my parents gave me a sirup prescribed by the doctor to counter its
effects. My body
got reacted with that medicine and when I woke up the next day, I had
red sores of sorts all over my body, even my eyes. I was immediately
rushed to the
doctor and admitted in the hospital. I was totally on glucose and food
pipes. My weight came down to 15 kgs. My nails were breaking and my
hair were coming
off. It was a complete nightmare. After a month when I got discharged
from the hospital, the marks on my body got okay but all that affected
my eyes. My
eyes got totally dried up and I lost my vision. my whole world turned
dark. Being a kid, I lost my mental balance and used to hit my head on
the wall and
had no clue what was happening to me. It was the love of my family
that made me strong. My parents consulted all the eye specialists pan
india, my right
eye got 8-9 surgeries done but only thing that got better was that I
started differentiating between the colours from a very close
distance.
After almost two years of that accident, my parents admitted me to NAB
Delhi to make me learn braille. And then after an year, I got
integrated to Mount
Carmel School. With the help of teachers, family, braille and
technology, I got confidence that I can do everything. I’m like
everyone, I’m as same as
others, I’m no different. I started believing in myself. I realised
there are so many things to be thankful for, rather than crying over
what I’ve lost.
I can make use of other senses that I’ve got and do whatever I want
to. My family made me learn to smile and be positive even in the
toughest of the situations.
And in this coarse of time, I myself realised that your positive
attitude towards life, belief in yourself, will and determination to
do something, can
make you fulfill all your dreams. Nothing in this world can stop you
from achieving that. Till date, I’ve tried out everything that I
wanted to, be it
acting, voice overs, radio jockeying, writing poetries, writing
scripts for short films and advertisements, modelling, motivating
people, anchoring and
many more such things. The dreams don’t end here. I’ll keep on trying
out many more things of my interests, be it difficult or easy, either
I succeed or
fail, I just want to try, try and try. Trying makes me win all the
battles.
In the next days, I’ll be posting my stories on my facebook with the
hash tags like, #ICanDoWhateverIWantToDo, #IBelieveInMe,
#BelieveInYou, #ConfidenceIsMyWings,
#Storytelling, #Robosion, #StorytellingApp, #Movement, #LifePurpose,
#LifeMeaning, #Blind, #VisuallyImpaired, #Confidence, #Belief. This
story will be
first told via writing. If you can respond to this email, we can aim
at the same timing to release our story for higher impact. Our team
will spread the
message.
This movement has already started and is getting larger. As one of the
great milestones, the team from Stanford University, Silicon Valley,
Hollywood,
and Japan have offered support to us. This team has created an app to
tell story. With this app, we can act together to deliver our message.
We can be
in the same scene even if we are remote with each other. The app
removes the background of your videos with artificial intelligence so
that you can put
your selfies into our acting. Animator of Lion King, Beauty and Beast,
and Aladdin is creating the scene, background and characters to
support our acting.
We will act and deliver our message in this magical scene that
communicates hope. 007 and Bourne Identity story analyst can help us
brush up our story.
I believe that it is important to tell story this way in addition to
our writing, because this is symbolic in delivering the message that
we are capable
of doing whatever we want.
To join my acting in this story or simply to support my acting, please
sign up at
www.robosion.com.
You will get update of my situations as well, if you sign up.
I’ll be counting on your support to fight on the blind awareness,
isolation and discrimination issues. I hope to have your support in
whatever way possible
to you. Please respond to this email with your support.
Sincerely,
Simran Chawla
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