Hello Simran, Our eye condition is same. Count me in this initiative and let me know when to post my story of courage over social media.
Sent from my iPhone > On 27-Apr-2019, at 1:36 AM, Simran Chawla <simranchawla1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Access Indians: > I am Simran Chawla, a visually impaired girl who loves acting. I won a > beauty pageant-Princess India 2016-2017 and was crowned by John > Abraham. I have been a user of Access > India since 2016. > > I am writing to this mailing list today, because I wish you to join > our movement in spreading our stories as the visually impaired. We are > capable of doing > everything and anything that we want to do. We can together overcome > discrimination and isolation issue by advancing our movement together. > We will show > we are as equal as everyone. > I am using my acting to share this message with my audience. I am by > no means a renowned actress. However, you and I can together make a > difference. > You can join this movement by one or more of the following actions > 1. Share the social media post on this issue - I am writing them as well; > 2. Post your story on social media with hashtags - you can see my > story and hashtags below as reference; > 3. Introduce me to someone like yourself, those who are working on the > blind awareness issues, WhatsApp group on this matter, journalists > passionate about > this matter, and any influencers on social media such as Facebook, > YouTube, and Instagram; > 4. Join my acting as a participating actor - let me write how you can > do this at the end of this email; and > 5. More than anything - respond to this email that you are supportive to me! > > Let me now write my story. > I was born with normal eyesight. At the age of five, I got fever and > my parents gave me a sirup prescribed by the doctor to counter its > effects. My body > got reacted with that medicine and when I woke up the next day, I had > red sores of sorts all over my body, even my eyes. I was immediately > rushed to the > doctor and admitted in the hospital. I was totally on glucose and food > pipes. My weight came down to 15 kgs. My nails were breaking and my > hair were coming > off. It was a complete nightmare. After a month when I got discharged > from the hospital, the marks on my body got okay but all that affected > my eyes. My > eyes got totally dried up and I lost my vision. my whole world turned > dark. Being a kid, I lost my mental balance and used to hit my head on > the wall and > had no clue what was happening to me. It was the love of my family > that made me strong. My parents consulted all the eye specialists pan > india, my right > eye got 8-9 surgeries done but only thing that got better was that I > started differentiating between the colours from a very close > distance. > After almost two years of that accident, my parents admitted me to NAB > Delhi to make me learn braille. And then after an year, I got > integrated to Mount > Carmel School. With the help of teachers, family, braille and > technology, I got confidence that I can do everything. I’m like > everyone, I’m as same as > others, I’m no different. I started believing in myself. I realised > there are so many things to be thankful for, rather than crying over > what I’ve lost. > I can make use of other senses that I’ve got and do whatever I want > to. My family made me learn to smile and be positive even in the > toughest of the situations. > And in this coarse of time, I myself realised that your positive > attitude towards life, belief in yourself, will and determination to > do something, can > make you fulfill all your dreams. Nothing in this world can stop you > from achieving that. Till date, I’ve tried out everything that I > wanted to, be it > acting, voice overs, radio jockeying, writing poetries, writing > scripts for short films and advertisements, modelling, motivating > people, anchoring and > many more such things. The dreams don’t end here. I’ll keep on trying > out many more things of my interests, be it difficult or easy, either > I succeed or > fail, I just want to try, try and try. Trying makes me win all the battles. > > In the next days, I’ll be posting my stories on my facebook with the > hash tags like, #ICanDoWhateverIWantToDo, #IBelieveInMe, > #BelieveInYou, #ConfidenceIsMyWings, > #Storytelling, #Robosion, #StorytellingApp, #Movement, #LifePurpose, > #LifeMeaning, #Blind, #VisuallyImpaired, #Confidence, #Belief. This > story will be > first told via writing. If you can respond to this email, we can aim > at the same timing to release our story for higher impact. Our team > will spread the > message. > This movement has already started and is getting larger. As one of the > great milestones, the team from Stanford University, Silicon Valley, > Hollywood, > and Japan have offered support to us. This team has created an app to > tell story. With this app, we can act together to deliver our message. > We can be > in the same scene even if we are remote with each other. The app > removes the background of your videos with artificial intelligence so > that you can put > your selfies into our acting. Animator of Lion King, Beauty and Beast, > and Aladdin is creating the scene, background and characters to > support our acting. > We will act and deliver our message in this magical scene that > communicates hope. 007 and Bourne Identity story analyst can help us > brush up our story. > I believe that it is important to tell story this way in addition to > our writing, because this is symbolic in delivering the message that > we are capable > of doing whatever we want. > To join my acting in this story or simply to support my acting, please > sign up at > www.robosion.com. > You will get update of my situations as well, if you sign up. > > I’ll be counting on your support to fight on the blind awareness, > isolation and discrimination issues. I hope to have your support in > whatever way possible > to you. Please respond to this email with your support. > > Sincerely, > Simran Chawla > simranchawla1...@gmail.com > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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