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1 Word-Fictional Story-Intro
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By: J.T.Burrill
Can you remember a place by just closing your eyes? I can. Every time I close my eyes for a moment, I am transported to a place of such beauty and tranquility that the images have become seared into my mind’s eye. I do that every second of my life. Why you ask? Well I’m blind that’s why. I have to imagine or guess what I’m truly seeing. This incident happened on a December. I believe on the 24th. That totally sucks don’t you think. Don’t get me wrong I have a great time being blind. When people see a blind, they think, “I’m so sorry. Can I do anything to help.” No offence but it’s not like I’m dead or anything like that. It’s just that I see things differently. Being blind is better you know. We people can hear things that you seeing people can’t. Also we smell almost as well as a dog. You would smell a pizza while we smell all the ingredients of a pizza. Man, I’m still shocked to hear that blind can do that. O.k. so I get a lot of people still asking me how I beat North Andover in basketball. They are still shocked how I was playing for the starting five on the varsity team. I was only a freshmen.
Any way, I’m not alone. There are people who are just like me. Lets take Helen Adams Keller for example. Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, second cousin of Robert E. Lee. The Keller family originates from Germany. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. By age seven, she had invented over sixty different signs that she could use to communicate with her family. In 1886, her mother Kate Keller was inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf blind child, Laura Bridgman, and traveled to a specialist doctor in Baltimore for advice. He put her in touch with local expert Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. The school delegated teacher and former student, Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Helen's teacher. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship. I was surprised because my grandfather met her while he was working in a hotel.
Even Erik Weihenmayer was blind. Erik Weihenmayer (born 1968) is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled Blind Faith. He is author of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye can See, his autobiography.
Erik is an acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, ice climber, and rock climber. He is a friend of Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg, the co-founders of Braille Without Borders, whom he visited in Tibet to climb with them and teenagers from the school for the blind. A documentary film based on the project was released in 2006: Blindsight (2006 film).
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