Oct 12 2007
Here is Dennis Shulman’s story about living as a blind man in a sighted world.
It’s a moving and honest account of his struggle to not only live with but transcend his disability.
And it’s about how and why his disability is leading him to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009.
To learn more about Dennis check out Shulman for Congress.
Oct 12 2007
Before I answer this question, I would like to first thank all the commentators for their interest in my disability and their questions about the obstacles I have faced.
I lost my vision gradually throughout my childhood so that, while I could still read large print when I was ten or eleven, I could not when I was thirteen. Using a cane became necessary in my junior year of high school.
By the time I went to college (Brandeis) and grad school (Harvard) I was totally blind.
I started at Brandeis in 1968. These were the pre-personal computer dark ages. For all people, the personal computer has radically changed their lives; for blind folks, this change is downright revolutionary.