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How I See It
Leuwynda Forbes
United StatesGALLERYCONVERSATION
I'm what they consider legally blind, not totally blind. It means I can still see some...
Pictures help me express how I think of things. Most things are are different for me. I don't look at someone and think, "Oh, they're fat, or they're overweight." I don't judge people by the color of their skin, I just talk to them.
Once I was on a city bus and this man sat down next to me. He was talking to me and telling me about the time his face was disfigured in a burn accident. I was looking at his face and I couldn't see the burns other people could. Some people sitting across from us began laughing. He got mad because they were laughing at us and I thought, "Why does that matter ? So what if he's different from everybody else? He's special just like God made everybody else.
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