Very disappointed by some people here.
Hello,
I am writing this post to share with you one of the worst experiences with blind people I’ve heard in the recent years.
Well, As most of you on this forum, I graduated from my primary special school full of blind people and visually impaired ones. I didn’t really enjoy living in that environment and when I went to a public school, everything changed completely. In my country, each blind student after graduating from a special school has to follow the same route as others, Going to a public one.
When I was at the special school, we had a girl in our class who was, let’s say, not mentally disordered, but mentally disorganised, and shy. She had trouble learning brail since the very first years of school, and therefore problems everywhere, in studying and doing homeworks. But we helped her as much as we could with the view to making her feel similar to others, or at least just leaving away her opinion of being the worst student in our class. The years wore on, and we soon had to pick a public school, then go and study there.
Well, for a long time I didn’t talk with her, neither I’m doing now, but a guy who studied at her school told me what was going on with that girl. She was treated as a ritired person, completely shy and out-of-the-way. They had a very dark opinion that the girl was completely useless and very few people made an attempt to help her. Most of the students there didn’t give a hand to her and she was generally accompanied by any teacher or her parents. Even last week when all high school students in our country had to fill in the final test on literature, the teacher assistant placed her in the cornor of the room and filled in the test himself, without even telling the girl that he was doing it, but just reading her some questions so as to give her the impression like that was the whole test. One day, while the girl was getting downstairs alone, she crashed in to the wall and a guy was looking forward to seeing and recording it with his iPhone. Later on, the video was posted on Facebook on a page with more than one million fans and the video was taken as something funny.
I got very disturbed when I heard all these stories and it makes me feel shocked when I recall it again. Are these people humans or what the fuck are they supposed to be?
To my surprise, from the beginning my experience at the public school was simply unforgettable, I participated in activities, did a lot of projects, and was named as one of the best students in my class. I had many people who loved me, both students and teachers, and we regret that soon we aren’t going to be together anymore. I honestly didn’t ever need to move alone in that school because if in my class there were no one, others would be immediately found there to give me a hand.
I fully understand that you are responsible for what kind of impression people have on you, but I can’t intirely understand that if a person, apart from blindness has some other disabilities should not be left completely alone and ignored by others, especially when being in school. That isn’t even fair.
I welcome your opinions and hope none of your blind friends will come across this kind of experience.
Have a good time all.
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