Last week, my group interviewed a woman named Krishna who has been visually impaired for most of her life. She  was a serious dancer at a very young age when she started to experience vision loss. After she has lost her vision completely it was extremely difficult to start dancing again. It was a challenge for her to gain her confidence, but when she did, she knew she was ready. Sadly, even though she was ready, dance studios weren’t ready to accommodate for her disability and they didn’t let her back in. She was devastated, it bruised her confidence as a dancer even more. But she didn’t give up, she demanded to be taken into studios to dance, and she did, she started in the back of the class trying to hear her way through dance. It is amazing how she adapted to her disability in dance. Even though she was able to overcome this mental block, she explained that people on the streets were even less accommodating. She said that the scariest things are; Pokemon Go, and people touching her in the streets. The scariest thing for Krishna is when someone touches her, or grabs her on the street, even to guide her across, because it is like a had coming out of the darkness. She feels helpless. One of the things that she said she would like everyone to know is that she is blind, but that doesn’t stop her from doing the things she has to do and wants to do, she just needs a little time. Lack of patience, she said, is one of the things that limits her the most, because no one has patience for her or her disability.

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