Re: Contemplations of A Soon-to-be Adult
Well coledge for me is high school for you guys in the us its university or tech or something like that I suspect.
Well I guess university is ok if you are outgoing, can fight for your rights and not go on automatic.
For me I let it go, got support and struggled through courses at certifficate level almost dropping one because of visual papers.
To continue past certifficate level well required some graphic design papers and as I was getting fed up I decided to just fuck right off and say fuck it all and fuck off the rest of you even though I had 3 years of scholarship left.
with this pluss equipment issues, screenreaders not coming on time, and general muck about with agencies concerned I guess I should have put my fists up earlier but I didn't.
Having come out of a partly mainstreamed system where half was still in specialised units and institutions meant I didn'
't exactly have the drive, I mean I didn't have the drive.
One thing to know and take note of off the bat.
Is that your high education institution will be saying to you you will get a job and well you will get there.
You won't because you are blind, and disabled and basically useless, not that you are alone.
Its hard enough for the average sighted joe to even get a job, and that is at any age.
Its harder for any disabled person blind or otherwise to get a job.
One of my friends is autistic asbergis I think.
It doesn't stop him, he walks a lot, enjoys computers and likes to work.
But he has energy issues, needs to sleep most of the day, and can only work 2 hours a day.
He has got some work and enjoys it massively.
Yet when the ressession happened in 2008, he was one of the first let go.
When I worked briefly in a school tutoring people on computers, well mainly blind people, there was a problem with access, I decided to report this to the people involved.
The student system
logged in to a staff email system to do the report, talk about misconfiguration.
I was not happy, and neither was the school who accused me for hacking their network and fired me.
So I guess they want misconfigured swisscheese as a network.
If you are blind, while legally you are treated the same, expect to be treated as either a poor or helpless or a fat fucking football.
I still am unsure how when a hole appears in the network people just fire the opperator it just doesn't make sence.
So it depends, is it worth colledge.
Well if you get a scholarship and can fund bits of your materials and transcription as long as there is a good support centre it is.
On the other hand, your blindy no going anywhere semi helpless life to be honest is better than normal life.
I tried my darndest to get to that job, and I am basically back where I started.
Before that I was sleeping all day, eating to much and living the poor helpless blindy life.
I am a step up from the dirt but it does me no good.
I'd prefur to have not known the world to be honest.
Poor helpless and retarded is better then jobless, and no prospects really.
Ofcause telling a sightling about this is no good, they can't understand disabled people as such, only disabled people can understand disabled because they have to face the same thing.
I have few blind friends though which sucks.
You are not as fast as normals I accept that.
But I would really have liked to be told exactly what my prospects were and not given a load of bool about it.
I would have accepted it just the same.
I do get the random job contract but it aint enough.
Worse I need to semi lie to the government that I actually want to work.
I do but I don't have a job and little prospect to get one.
But to avoid my benifits cut I have to lie and say that I want to work to avoid the disabled work scheme.
And yes I know fri
ends more helpless and some more retarded than me that have to work putting bottle tops on bottles and things on other things.
Most of these people and some are my friends enjoy this life.
But for me growing up with sightlings and middle class people including my family, I know that its just a scheme to get the helpless to work at minimal or less wage.
There is no future.
Its basically to late for me unless I get a break.
So think where you want to go, you may find it good or not.
If you want to go be prepaired to fight is all I will say.
I wasn't and fuck I really wish I did.
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