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  • For most of us, the world looks like this.

  • But what if you only saw this part of what's going on?

  • Or this?

  • Your world may then be even more difficult to understand.

  • In the UK over 2 million people have a visual impairment that they must learn to live with.

  • Often, from a very early age.

  • To make their world easier to live in means we have not only to understand the problems that they face

  • but also to do our best to make sure we help them as much as possible

  • We need to see the world through their eyes.

  • Well, if I'm going on a road, crossing over, and I can't see the car that well, I've just got to stand there and listen for it.

  • I think one of the main problems I have going round school is mainly when the sun's in my eyes and I can't always see where I'm going.

  • People put stuff, like a rucksack, in front of me. I can't always see it.

  • So when I walk forward, I trip over, and it hurts my knee or one part of my body.

  • It's mainly just seeing the stairs. Quite a lot of stairs around my school have got paint on then, but after a while, they rub off.

  • Because I have a lot of equipment, it does go on a trolley

  • and I have to leave lessons a couple minutes early so I can get the trolley and myself to the next period.

  • It doesn't look good on my behalf if I'm missing the first five or six minutes of a lesson, just because I had to

  • go the long way round in our school because there's steps one way and there's a ramp the other side.

  • I have the go completely the wrong way to get to the next lesson.

  • It can be quite hard when there's lots of people all trying to rush to the next lesson at once.

  • I'm like walking around lesson to lesson and I'm bashing into people and it's a bit hard sometimes.

  • There's like 850 students in the school. It's so busy, Year 7 to Year 10, Year 11,

  • all those people are walking around and it's just hard for me because... It's just hard for me, isn't it?

  • Sometimes people run towards me, then I might sometimes bang into them, yet they don't know that I can't see that they're coming towards me.

  • They've made comments like, 'It's unfair.' and, 'Why are you treated differently?'

  • and I'm not sure if people understand what I mean by 'visual impairment' but sometimes they think that I'm just lying and cheating,

  • and this just some easy excuse, and I get to go five minutes early to, say, lunch or just get out of lessons five minutes early.

  • Also when I have my laptop and my iPad, and it's charging, I have to sit at the back because it's the only place where the charging plug points are.

  • So it's like difficult for me to read anything that's on the board, and then teachers wonder why I'm not doing any work when

  • in fact I have really no choice. I just sort of sit there and do nothing because I couldn't see anything.

  • People don't think I'm bright because, again, I don't really know what I'm doing all the time because I can't see the board.

  • I always seem to have people taking the mick out of me, so yeah, it annoys me quite a bit sometimes.

  • And they said it again, "Oh, you're blind, and then they said, "Wait, are you blind?"

  • and I said, "No, I'm not. I just can't see that well and I don't really want to talk about it."

  • "Your brain doesn't really work because you're going blind."

  • And just little ones like, "You should've gone to Specsavers."

  • I've tried talking to them, I've talked laughing along with them, trying to just make them bored of it.

  • I've told teachers but then, of course, it escalates it, they know they're going to get a reaction.

  • I've just tried everything, and then of course, when I do eventually lash out, you know, I'm in the wrong.

  • In September, we got to choose where we sat, so I decided I'd sit at the front, even though it's away from my friends.

  • And it's now April and I'm basically at the back already

  • which is quite ridiculous, to be honest, because all the naughty ones are at the front.

  • In many lessons, especially English, they hide my English folder or push it to right at the back of a cupboard,

  • so when I get up to find it, I get in trouble for leaving my seat, because apparently we have to tell everyone where we're going.

  • I do use a magnifier, but sometimes that's not exactly the best or easiest way of doing things,

  • because it's just takes twice as long than if I actually have the work in front of me in the right print.

  • The school books aren't enlarged and it's difficult to read, and I struggle to read them.

  • And they don't get the books in quick enough, so that if they are enlarging them, then the class will already be on to another thing.

  • Recently I got my English textbook and we got to chapter 11. By the time I finally got my large print, I had to read it behind in my own time.

  • I get this a lot with other lessons as well, because I'm having to catch up on normal work in my own time,

  • which then makes me more tired, and teachers wonder why I don't get my actual homework in on time.

  • With my homework sheets, I can't always see them so my mum or my dad ends up reading them to me most of the time.

  • When they do give me the wrong sheet, they don't even realise until I have to go up there and speak to the teacher and say, I need this copied.

  • And then some of them will be like, "Oh, yes, you do." And the other ones are like, "Um, can you go and photocopy it?"

  • When people knew that I had a visual impairment and I can't see very well in poor lighting, they started turning off lights

  • so I couldn't see anything and it distorts my vision and then they'd just laugh and sort of run off, and kind of leaving someone helpless and stranded in a sense.

  • It's people playing on my visual impairment, and they don't get the consequences. I have to pick them up.

  • I get in trouble because some idiot thinks it's funny to take something and hide it. And my education is suffering because of it, and it's not fair on me.

  • People think I can see what's going on, but I can't. So they don't really know why I think is going on.

  • "Look out!"

  • So what could be done to make life easier for such young people?

  • Let's hear from them again with some ideas.

  • I think teachers and TAs should have more training on what it's like to have a visual impairment, and then they could understand what we have to put up with.

  • It would be good if I had all the books and notes in a large font ready for me before the lesson's started.

  • I've often had to do my own photocopying afterwards.

  • I've like all my homework assignments in a font size I can read.

  • If I have to get to different classes, I want teachers to realise that it sometimes takes me longer to get there.

  • I haven't got a statement, so I'm not entitled to extra support to finish my work. It's not fair.

  • I'm sure most teachers don't realise I'm being bullied at break time. If they walked round a bit more, they'd see what's happening.

  • I don't mind people knowing that I can't see, but I wish they knew what it's like.

  • And it's young people with visual impairments that this programme is all about.

For most of us, the world looks like this.

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透過他們的眼睛 - 盲人行動的年輕行動者的短片 (Through Their Eyes - a short film by Action for Blind People's young Actionnaires)

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    阿多賓 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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