Indeed very touching as well as relatable! On 26/02/2020, Subramani L <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi friends: > > Have made a blogpost from an excerpt of the memoir I’m working on. > Please read and give me your valuable feedback. > > My tryst with blindness: As a child, I was bullied for wearing eye glasses > > The neighborhood school where I studied, amidst the chaos of the > vegetable market nearby and the peal of bells from the temple opposite > the building, was as noisy as the scene outside. Kids ran > helter-skelter, teachers had a hard time shouting over the babble of > little voices. It wasn’t the kind of atmosphere for learning. As a > nine-year-old, I didn’t care much. > I escaped the teacher’s censure by scoring just enough marks, made > fewer friends and frequently found myself in the middle of bullies who > teased me about my spectacle. Being the only guy in the class with eye > glasses meant that I stood out and the bullies had no troubles picking > me out. > The fact that I wore eye glasses must’ve had a deeper effect than I > could figure, because I didn’t reach out and make friends despite > being gregarious as a child growing up in a large family. I was mostly > reticent and considered weird given my strange interest in the news > headlines the teacher read out in the morning assembly, about the only > thing that grabbed my interest. > “I watch your sorry face light up. Is the useless junk in the papers > so interesting? Who do you take yourself for? Some kind of a > newsreader? Oh look at him man, all blushing…” It was Jaikumar, > resident of Jambrathottam, the market area where we were warned not to > enter because it was often the flashpoint for gang wars. We never knew > what ‘gang wars’ were, but followed the orders. > > > https://grapplingwithrp.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/my-tryst-with-blindness-as-a-child-i-was-bullied-for-wearing-eye-glasses/ > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > >
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