Hello all, This is Megha, and I recently joined Access India mailing group. I have Retina distrophy, almost similar to RP. I started experiencing the impact of retina distrophy since I was in 8th grade, but could see manageable till graduation.
Desired to be an air hostess, ended qualifying as a Company Secretary, and now working as an accessibility specialist. Strange I know, but this is all due to darkness of unawareness. Air hostess job required some minimum sight which I knew I dont have. Then spent years to qualify as CS, as I was not willing to take scribe for my exams. Finally qualified as I agreed for a scribe and accepted my impairment. Even then, I spent a long time at home and could not find suitable work opportunity for me. Co-incidently I came to know about screen reader, organizations providing training in them and then started my journey again. I got employed in 2017, and then with the guidance of mentors I chose to move into the field of accessibility, and now well employed and confident to live along with visual limitations. I still definitely miss that I spent so many years qualifying as a CS but could not work into, but I am happy that whatever I am doing now, its going great. Happy to meet so many of you here, feels great to read about each story you share. Just thought to share a little about me, hoping that someone who is in his or her initial journey, will feel confident that we can definitely do great. All that is required is acceptance, awareness, and hard work with determination. Stay happy! Regards, Megha -- 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/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAFViccSTGANrrwZThBqQXObH%2B3AvLYR413zgYHE_dUaJN-pGdA%40mail.gmail.com.
