Re: I need to talk.
Yup I agree @6 and 7. I know i said that i went to blind school, but it was only after i graduated from primary and secondary, so i went to a school where people from all over the country went. We were all adults at that point, some having recently gone blind, and that's actually where I got to learn braille music upon request, so I was really happy that they gave me the braille teacher that taught it without me having mentioned that desire yet. Spent about 9 months there, and went home every other weekend so my family wouldn't missed me too much.
Before that, I absolutely refused to go to blind school because all of my friends were in mainstream and I really didnt want to have to readjust to a new environment, so when my parents brought it up to me when I was a kid I was like no way, and my teachers supported my decision so I got out of that. Still I kinda wonder what I would have become if I had gone. I always thought that the kids that went all acted weird, but looking back at that today I wonder if it was just me. That's also part of the reason I didnt want to go, because I didn't want to become like those silly kids who talked funny and made silly noises all day, and I'm not talking about kids with a different accent, they sounded like cartoon characters. One blind dude openly hit on girls all the time and that weirded me out, so I kept thinking why doesn't anyone put him in his place? That's really why I refused to go to blind school as a kid, or at least part of the reason anyway.
So of course I was happy to go after graduation, and I'm glad that I went. I sure did learn a lot, and met many interesting people, was able to help many people, and gods I finally learned how to recognize and understand traffic patterns. That was always a struggle for me as a kid but no more.
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