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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Terri Born 1933 Mobility Visually Impaired Never had O&M instruction
Description: Send a textTerri prophetically remarked that without the radio’s noise as a beacon she would “end up going off track 2” is chilling for many reasons. First and foremost, that Terri died exactly as she prophesized, she walked (without a mobility tool) off track 2 into the path of an Amtrak train. One problem that may seem benign to sighted people, is her misplaced pride in fooling sighted people that she was not blind because she could walk a straight line to her coffee stand when the radio was on and thus did not need her long...