Going To School As A Blind Person
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Tommy, who’s been blind since birth, talks about what it was like going to school as a blind person in both public and private schools.
Directed/Edited by Ben Churchill
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Appearing - “A Look Out”
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“Gym” by Alan Light
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The Tommy Edison Experience What is it like getting dressed and fixing your AWESOME HAIR?🤓
The Tommy Edison Experience how did you write this huh I need answers nigga
The Tommy Edison Experience I love your channel. I find it fascinating. Love learning about bind culture. Keep it up your doing great!!!!
The Tommy Edison Experience My school experience was mostly the same but instead of being blind I'm a little deaf in one ear and I was the only one so the teachers sort of made some of there own rules for me just to follow.
Hey Tommy, I just wanted to thank you! I'm a self defense teacher and recently I had the pleasure of teaching a blind person. Thanks to you and your videos I was actually really relaxed and cool with the whole situation and we both had a lot of fun. Before I knew your channel I was a little insecure whenever I came upon a blind person, but not anymore.
when I was in 6th grade there was a blind kid in my class, and one time the power went out and some girl screamed "I can't see!" and he shouted "neither can I" and it was magical. he was a cool dude.
Lol
Meliodas why?
when i was in primary, we had 2 new kids from other countries. teacher made them sit together. yet they couldn't speak each others language and integration was harder.
@@Timebomb_19 screaming when the lights go out is stupid I hated it when people did that
That's a lie
Tommy Edison...got detention for breaking a lightbulb. Oh, the irony xD
ᛞᛖᚾᚾᛁᛋ ᛏᚱᛟᚹᚨᛏᛟ LOL OMG
ᛞᛖᚾᚾᛁᛋ ᛏᚱᛟᚹᚨᛏᛟ oh my God… I just figured it out myself
Adry Florea Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.... I think...
Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb, he did not invent it and was never an inventor. The inventor of the lightbulb and AC current that powers everything to this day was Nikola Tesla.
ᛞᛖᚾᚾᛁᛋ ᛏᚱᛟᚹᚨᛏᛟ 😂
I love how someone who is blind managed to be successful on a visual platform. It's amazing, truly!
RUclips and a blind film critic, Tommy is awesome.
I’d love to learn from those who support him in his work
Amazing
Hi Tommy! When I was in kindergarten, the grade 8 kids came to our class to help us write our letter to santa. I was paired up with a girl who was blind, she wrote the letter for me on her typewriter, and it got sent off to santa. In Canada if you mail a letter to a special address 'santa' will write back. So a few weeks later, I received a letter from Santa, so excited only to find it had been written in Braille! I think I remember crying because I couldn't read what santa had said to me lol
Santa's postal code is *H0H 0H0.* Easy to remember! Address is just *North Pole.*
Colleen C I'm sorry but I just laughed way too hard at that 😂
The Santa replies are usually one of a few options they send out to all the kids. I mean, it's obvious you wouldn't get personalized messages but it alternates between what they do have. I think I remember the paper being really pretty though, like light blue with candy canes on it but it's been years since I've written to Santa so that could be wrong.
Did you find out? I would think the teacher could have asked the blind girl to come read it to you?
This made me tear up 😭 they replied in braille
Tommy has the perfect excuse if he ever wanted to rob someone's house.. "What? I'm not home? Oh sorry, I didn't notice.. my bad." "I thought I was packing up my own valuables."
adam mac that's awesome
Well he wouldn't recognize the layout of the house, so how would he find valuables if he doesnt know where they would even be at?
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It was a joke, Wendy. Haha
Major kudos to Tommy's mom for getting him in the regular curriculum!
I wish we could see a video of little Tommy talking his way out of something!
He lived in a very prosperous area so they better have given him good services
5:43 "You're gonna *work* for bullies..."
Tommy, is Ben bullying you off camera? It's okay, we'll keep it a secret from him.
He doesn't work for ben
Cadrid Ben works for him, Tommy is the boss, "The Blind Bully"
Anthony Ingram Of course, the perfect cover!
Just blink twice to let us know if there's trouble! We'll wait!
Noah Topper open his eyes twice
i'm german and i never realised that 9 and "nein" is pronounced the same way :D
JanusPapers no its nein. Not no
If you ever watched Kim Possible, you might have known xD
Me neither! Now I think of possible jokes... e.g.:
An english police officer askes a german driver if he had more than one beer.
The German answered: "Nein"
XD well... I'm not good in making jokes. May be someone else will give it a try.
I can't help it, i always say no in german... So much more amusing to yell nein at everything :) and when people ask if i can actually speak german i reply Nein!
Revive 2Pac we are talking about the english 9, which is pronounced like "nein"
There were two blind brothers in my high school, and I tutored them in calculus. It always amazed me that they could recall multi-line proofs and imagine sin and cos waves in their minds. One of the brothers is now a licensed paralegal and the other works in environmental science.
That is amazing. It reminds me of a girl I went to school with who didn't have hands, her arms just ended in a thumb like appendage. Despite that she could write as quickly as anyone and actually did calligraphy if I remember correctly. Her handwriting was so good our history teacher would have her right announcements on the board because it was much more neat than his handwriting.
Yeah in some other video he says he knows what colors are on the rainbow. I don’t, I literally cannot recall them off the top of my head yet I can see one and know instantly. It’s because of that they are constantly remembering how things are I think it could help with remembering math
His mother is awesome. She didn't wrap him up in cotton wool. She fought for him to be treated like a regular kid in school. What an amazing woman
You don't really know she was an amazing woman
My highschool has about 3600 students and there's only 1 blind girl that I know of. I see her every now and then with her cane just walking down the hallway with 1000s of other students and she parts them like Moses parted the red sea. I've never seen so many people get out of someones way so quickly.
When I was in second grade there was a blind girl in my class, and we would sometimes sit together at lunch/play together at recess. I remember one time we were talking about TV shows, and someone asked her what her favorite show was. Almost everyone at our table got super quiet, because I guess we thought it was rude to ask her that. But at that moment, she lit up and told us that her favorite show was Dancing With the Stars. I guess I still remember that moment because it was super eye-opening for me. It made me realize that she wasn't different from us at all, except for the fact that she couldn't see. I think it's really special and SUCH a blessing to know someone who is blind. Love your videos, Tommy!
I've never in my 20 years of life met a blind person
TimTim same
I have seen a couple obviously blind people on the street but never really met one either. The closest encounter with a blind person for me is when a blind man almost ran into me at a mall but I noticed just in time to dodge him.
TimTim Would you like to touch one?
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I have, my grandpa is blind.
There are many in my city, i never actually met them, but i like knowing they can get around without trouble
I never went to school a with a blind person but my dad did, when he tells me about it he said people used to bully him and put cardboard inbetween his paper and braille typerwriter, so it wouldn't print any words, which is just awful
Those bullies needs to go to hell!
And there were not teachers back then? That's disgusting! I remember being bullied at school and teachers did nothing about it. It wouldn't surprise me if those teachers were like that
My experience with school was pretty much the same, except I wasn't allowed to use the cane or learn Braille. The teachers all complained that the Braille writer was distracting, and it was supposedly unsafe to allow a blind kid to walk around independently, much less allow me to bring a metal pole. We had to fight so hard for me to use a cane. I had to learn it in secret at first. Don't even get me started on the textbook issues lol. It wasn't until I went to University that I was given a Braille writer or any other resources. I ended up with a Master's degree, and a decent job. I wish people knew just how lucky they are that they didn't have to fight so much for a basic education.
You are a golden person ;)
Under the ADA act, you are protected to use a cane or any tool to aid with your disability; you should’ve reported that school
@@chelseaezibe4765 unfortunately the ADA wasn't a thing until I was in junior high. In those days the emphasis was on making you as normal as possible, even at the expense of the education. The focus was on what you could see with your eyes. If you could see well enough to determine if there was a shape in front of you, you didn't get a cane. You just had to do better at watching where you were going. If you could recognize print at all, they'd just make the print bigger so you could see it. It didn't matter if reading gave you headaches. You were told to "suck it up". Braille and white canes were for the kids who were really blind. They finally pulled me out of regular PE when "Coach" came to the realization that I didn't try to catch a ball because I didn't see that he threw it. My freshman English teacher realized I'd only complete the homework if he announced it as he wrote it on the board. It's not that the school refused to accommodate, they just didn't know how to do it right. I learned to use a cane in secret because it was thought that it would cause more problems if students and teachers saw me do it. I started using it later in high school, and didn't have too much trouble with other students. Some of the teachers were a different story. They just didn't know how to deal with it.
I think with the policy changes and all the technology we have in place today I think the experience is much different.
Connie Terry thank you for sharing, I’m so sorry you had to go through that back then
In second grade, i went to school with a blind guy named paul. he was two years older than the rest of us second graders, because he also had learning disabilities. I did a program called peer buddies where i sat next to him in class and played with him at recess and lunch and i just hung out with him. he also needed an aide because of his learning/mental disabilities. he was 100% blind, and he couldn't talk fluently. you could have a conversation with him, but it was choppy. nobody really hung out with him, he was basically ignored. me and about 5 of my friends started peer buddies though, and we always talked about how much we liked paul to our other friends. he was a really funny guy and super nice too. he was learning to read braille and that was fun to watch. slowly, because we talked about it so much, the other kids joined in helping him and by the end of the year and in the next year, he had the whole entire class as his friends!!
Aw this is so cute, you're awesome!
you're like the blind uncle i never knew i wish i had
I went to school with a blind kid who was 2 grades below me. Holy cow he was the definition of going for the gold.
We were in the same scout troop and went to camp together. The first year, he took the riflery merit badge and was able to pass the shooting tests with only a spotter. The next year, he took aviation merit badge and became the first blind scout at that camp to complete the badge. He was able to fly with just direction from the copilot, and completed a great landing by himself!
this is the first video I've got notified for like 3 months I have push notifications on
Same I almost forgot about tommy, the youtube algarythm is extremely messed up.
Use your subscriptions tab.
Happy to see your videos again, I've missed you buddy. Hope you solved your youtube issues.
I was forced to learn Braille and mobility in Elementary school, I hated it because I didn't want to be "different." Well.. Today I'm going back to school to get certified to become a Braille Transcriber lol
Tori that's amazing… Funny how things turn out right
It really is! I never realized how difficult it really is haha
@@toritina I just know 3 letters xD!
Are you blind
In middle school, I was in a few classes with a blind girl. She would talk about the TV show Fear Factor (a show I loved at the time) and we discussed the disgusting shit they did in that show.
I also accidentally knocked her cane out of her hands when walking out of a classroom. I did hand it back to her quickly and apologized. She wasn't upset, which was nice
I have an acquaintance at school who's almost totally blind. She can see /some/ colors & basic shapes, if they're right in her face... But dang she's amazing! She's super friendly, and everyone (even the tough kids) loves her.
I went to school with a blind girl in middle school. She had a cane and a seeing eye dog. The dog was a beautiful black dog that looked like a golden retriever except all the hair was black. What I remember is that the girl was the meanest person in the school. I even saw her kick the dog once. There was even a story that when she got upset she would use the word that allowed the dog to poop in the class.( I guess the dog is trained to hold its bathroom privileges until it was in a more appropriate environment) well when she was upset she would command the dog to poop in the classroom or hallway. I wonder what happened with that girl.
The golden retriever with black hair is probably a black lab
Ephigy you could be right. I don't know much about dog breeds. That mean lady kicked that poor dog.
Ephigy - or a flatcoated retriever
Or a black german shepherd.
Most likely a black lab. I volunteered at this event where motorcyclists would give a ride to blind people and my job was to take care of the dogs. All were labs, whether black or gold. They were so kind and well behaved, it breaks my heart hearing that someone was mean to theirs. They kept looking back at me whenever we were walking some place. is was so sweet!
I was aware of a blind peer that was in my class from 6th to 12th grade, but I only recall happening to have one class with him (Music Appreciation, or something like that). I wouldn’t say we were friends but we got along well sitting next to each other. I remember that the teacher was impressed because he could identify any given note played on the piano perfectly. When they would show videos in class, I described for him what was happening. I always included trivial details, digressing from the point of what was going on in order to describe, say, what the actors’ hats may have been made of, or the color of their shoes. We had fun.
I was good friends with a blind kid in elementary school named Sam. We usually spent Recess talking and bouncing a ball or pretending to be ninjas, you know, kid stuff. Then he moved away in fifth grade. I remember he used to always be told to stop sticking his fingers in his eyes, but he never kicked the habit. That's my school experience with a blind person.
I was in class once and this girl couldn't find the stapler so the teacher pointed to the back of the classroom where it was sitting on a table. The girl says sarcastically "Oh wow, I'm so blind" and this other kid who's actually partially blind goes, "dude same"
I'm from Australia.
When I first got a job in child care there was a little 2 year girl who was completely blind from birth. That was my first and only experience with a blind person. She was the funniest kid though and I was always impressed when she could tell when it was me. Her mum moved her to a child care that cares for people with disabilities though and I miss her.
I never really thought about it before but now that you mentioned it, I've only ever known one blind person throughout all my years of schooling. It's quite surprising actually. He wasn't even in my grade, he wad two years older. I only ever talked to him once, he was apologising for bumping into me in the hallway.
I had a job during college being a visual assistant for a student who was legally blind. He had to hold paper with print on it about a single inch away from his face to read it. My job was to sit next to him in calculus lecture and operate a video magnifier, which was a camera set up to feed into a monitor, which he could put his face right up to and see the chalkboard to which I directed the camera. He used one of those braille typewriters to take notes and it was pretty quiet. I have to say that having been next to him every lecture, people that are visually impaired have to focus and work so hard to keep up with the material. And this dude was actually answering most of the questions the professor asked. A great amount of respect is due to blind or legally blind students who take a math class, especially to this guy who ended up getting an A.
in high school there were 2 blind twins, and im not even joking, sometimes they would bump into each other in the hall and have sword fights with their canes lol.
I got a blind friend when I went to college. I had known her for a few days when we stopped and talked to this guy from my class, and I talked to him a little while she mostly just stood there waiting. when we left she asked me who he was, and I said he is a guy from my class. She said, he was handsome. And I was like, WHAT how in the world do you know that. (she was right offcourse. She told me she could see some shadows of him but mostly she went by his voice and how he was while talking to us. It has been 20 years but I never forgot that episode
I did go to school with a blind kid. Mid 90s, I was 13 or 14. First day of class, the principal came in our class and made a speech to introduce him and to explain the challenges we would face. Everyone was sort of scared or embarrassed to go talk to him, so I went in and awkwardly talked to him and avoided the blindness subject as much as I could. About a couple of days later, we all got a calendar (the school used to print one at the start of every year and give out - keep in mind I'm from the south hemisphere, so our school years start in January), and while the kids were talking about the pictures (school photos), I sort of tried to ask him how it smelled nice - and he was not too keen on my explanation.
One of the kids was brave enough to just ask him if "all he could see was black", which is a stupid question for a blind person, but then we did learn he actually did see some light and some vague shadows - he could tell a person was in front of him and guess the shape of some familiar objects.
He would show us his braille machine (he had both a machine and a manual needle thing), and he would show us his talking wristwatch. On gym, he used to just sit there, and I would take the opportunity to escape from gym activities (which I hated) and keep him company.
He was not particularly friendly, though, and would not smile too much or keep a longer conversation, but I guess it was to be expected from his age.
And then, after one semester... he was out. The principal came back to explain he was not from that location and he was feeling homesick and decided to go back to where his parents lived (which I guess it was a BS cover story - it did not work out). He thanked all of us for the assistance and for proving, with that experience, that it could be done. And that was it.
I went to school with, and dated someone who was legally blind. Like 90% of his sight was gone. So he used this big screen that you put the paper on the bottom and it magnified it a lot. But he was really lazy. He was my best friend and at times my boyfriend. So I stupidly helped him too much instead of making him do his own damn work. Lol.
It'd be very hard for me to avoid accidentally treating a blind person like they were somewhat different as opposed to other people. But that's only because, in my experience, I am quite terrified of the possibility of my retinas pulling away from my eyes. ROP was something doctors predicted happening since birth and since I was a preemie, it's looking like it'll happen eventually. I rely heavily on my sight and I am grateful for being able to see things like art every day, and I know if and when I lose that gift, I'll become depressed and devastated. I know blind people are no different than anyone else but I just can't imagine how living with it must feel, and there's a very real chance that I'll find out one day. All I care about is being sensitive to how someone without sight mght feel.
I used to have a blind kid in my school year, so people got taught how to be a guide and stuff. I never formally met him (we spoke once or twice but nothing more) apparently he was really mean to people, I struggle to understand why, guess he wasn't a happy person :(
EveryoneHatesAlexander I would have fucked him up
Doctor Who Fanatic woah calm down
Doctor Who Fanatic maybe because he was blind dude that's just insane just to think about I'd empathize with him
Well maybe it was because of what you just said, he wasn't happy. Unhappy kids often lash out
Mr. Edison,
My name is Sam Gallezzo and I used to work in the assistive technology department in school. I worked for a gentleman name Robert Baron who was a good mad but was constantly hitting me with his cane. I was really amazed at the technology such as Jaws and Kurzweil. I met a lot of amazing and motivated people there. When I retire from trucking i may go back into assistive tech. I enjoy your videos. Keep it up.
You should be a voice actor tommy!!!!
I am in 8th Grade (as of this year) I have this wonderful kid named Chris in my English class. He is very funny and likes to poke fun at his disability. Whenever my teacher asks if we’ve seen another student who is absent, Chris always speaks up over the class and usually says “ No, I haven’t seen him/her lately.” I think it’s wonderful that there are many devices now for blind children because my teacher can load all of our class work onto a usb and then Chris will plug it into this little Braille computer and he’ll have all of the class work we’d do.
Who was the first blind person you met, then? I'd love to hear that story.
Liam M-D Me too👍👍👍👍
Doesn't he have a blind nephew? Maybe not the first person he's met but he definitely knows other blind people. And the few he's done collabs with
According to the rules of comedy they would have walked into each other
But that probably doesn't happen
No
''how do you say no in German''
''NIEN''
ICE Sniping and net is the next number 👍😀
ICE Sniping *NEIN
Question for Tommy: Do you remember the first time you met another blind person? What was that like?
I knew a girl who was blind in one eye when I was in 1st grade. Her name was Lisa. She was the nicest person in my class we immediately became friends. There was also a completely blind man in my sister's college choir class. He was the first person I saw using a cane in real life. He was extremely funny and charismatic.
Watching it as soon as I noticed the notification!
I think in Japan there's one school for blind students, and one school for deaf students and another school for the rest of the students who are difficult to go to school with the "abled" students.
Yuka Momoyo One school for the blind? So it's there where Zato Ichi learnt his swordsmanship? I always wondered.
I'm not familiar with Zatoichi nor history but it looks like Zatoichi is from Edo era so I'm assuming they had a different school system back then. I took a quick look at the wiki page and it says he had an instructor who taught him how to kill people.
Yuka Momoyo You're kidding, right? My original question was (quite a bad) joke, but it kinda required previous knowledge of the famous blind masseur/swordsman (originally portrayed by Shintaro Katsu and more recently by Takeshi Kitano). From your name I've assumed you're probably Japanese and finding your comment about schools for the blind in Japan, moreover under Tommy's video, the idea you've never even heard of Zatoichi really didn't even cross my mind :)
Well, let's disregard my previous joke attempt, but I can really recommend the Zatoichi movies. I will even risk the fury of hardcore Zatoichi fans and recommend the newer Kitano's movie over the old Katsu's ones, even though they're really great as well... But probably not as well suited for today's mainstream audiences, unlike the 2003 reboot.
Jan Stavěl Of course I've heard of Zatoichi before but I meant I'm no expert about it. I'm sorry I didn't get your joke. Thank you for your recommendation! It is definitely on my list.
I wish I knew a blind kid in school I would have loved a blind friend in school would love to get to know a blind person in general now but I have you Tommy and you make me feel like we're friends
No blind students. But there was one girl who had arthritis - she was allowed to go to the lunch hall early to avoid the stampede of kids as they rushed to the cafeteria.
And what a character you are! Love hearing all your stories! Always a treat to come home from work and see you have new video up! Thanks!
i AM the blind kid. i go to a blind school though, so i know tons of other kids. i was mainstreamed in primary school, it was terrible, they wouldn't let me use my cane
Tiller The Fgt oh
How u type this comment
voiceover, dictation i can type without looking too
Sure thing 'Her-Mee-Yone Ganger'
her me yone? interesting
"You're not supposed to look at the keys when you type, so... I never cheated!" LMAO that really got me XD
Tommy, i would really like if you try to play a video game!
(Like so he can see)
JuneMoon "So he can see" xD
ruclips.net/video/lpDoYgGC9QI/видео.html
He kinda did
What a great person you are Tommy!
Inclusionism ftw. I had similar experiences in school. Luckily, by the time I made it to fifth grade, they had invented the braille note. Made things so much easier.
I did go to school with a blind kid, named Jim. He got around with a cane as well, and we became pretty good friends for a while. He had a similar sense of humor to you and loved to hear jokes. He used to come up to me in gym if he heard my voice and say "Eric you'll never believe who I saw today!" or something like that. And once in the hallway I was looking at my phone and accidentally ran into him, and without looking up i accidentally said "sorry dude, I'm blind as a bat" and before I had a second to get embarrassed he was laughing his ass off. Great dude.
I was the only blind person at all the schools that I attended. I was known as the mean blind girl because I didn't allow anyone to walk over me...
we had this one girl that was blind from birth and her sister was the same way but she was much older. the girls name was ann and she was incredible at singing and piano and we got to sit in the hallways and listen to her play about once every month. Although, later on she was transferred to the school of deaf and blind
Who bullies a blind kid. Bullying is something that's in every school but a blind kid!
Yeah the people that do that don't have a mind nor an hearth or a soul!
Could you maybe do longer videos? I love hearing you talk about anything
Hey Tommy I am a seventh grader this year and I just wanted to say that it is very weird how much of the same things that I have to do that you described in this video and how many things that you had that I also have these days. But I don't get in trouble LOL I am normally the funniest kid in the class though.
Your Blind Superhero hello seventh grade, most boring year of my life
Well to be fair I was put in classes I probably shouldn't have been in… Good luck my friend
Franky/ QuilavaFireblast yeah it is pretty fun so far and I am in the advanced band class and all advanced academic classes and I forgot to say I'm blind but you can probably already tell by my name
Your Blind Superhero awesome… I hope school treats you well
Since my father was in the Marine Corps for 30 years we traveled a lot when I was a child so went to many different schools overseas Japan in other places do not need very many blind kids wake myself until I moved to Massachusetts and start going to public school there were several while students and ended up doing different programs with Perkins school for the blind end the public schools in Massachusetts amazing on coming to helping in giving adaptive technology and a helper someone to assist you with whatever was necessary I had some vision up until I got in my late 20s then I went totally blind but I’ve always been legally blind and I agree elementary school was the only time I was picked on and bullied because of my vision once I got into middle school and high school I had lots of friends and people saw my personality and a great person not just that I was the blind kid Love your videos very inspiring. And just to touch on some of your other videos about what blind people do for their careers I have been self-employed for 15 years I own cafeteria and coffee shop and also I have owned a production company and done music production when was involved in major record labels but ever since the age of 14 I’ve had a job and have been employed I also don’t believe in sitting at home collecting a check if I can go out and make a good living for me and my family and be on my team enjoy all the wonderful things in life and also have lots of family members and friends that are perfect vision and don’t have a job they collect food stamps and a check for no reason at all and it drives me crazy when they call me for a loan or to help them out financially and they say hey you were successful in your always going on vacations why don’t you help us out and they think I’d mind me saying no occasionally I am a jerk but I tell them if a blind person can work 60 hours a week I’m sure you Cantu
I never went to school with a blind person but I did go to junior high with a deaf girl! Definitely a eye opening experience!
I JUST got into highschool, and I haven't met him yet but I often see a blind boy in the halls with a guide and a cane.
There is a blind kid in my class and he is so freaking smart
Yeah you're right ;)
I’m a junior, and saw my first blind person at my school today. Through my life I can’t recall ever having a blind kid at school .I suppose because not too far from the other schools is a school for the blind, so that’s where they probably went to.
I wonder... As a blind person would you still feel the reminiscent type feelings when you visit a place you grew up or hadn't visit for a long time?
Jordy R absolutely, it would feel very familiar. I'm sure it was still smell the same, sound the same, things like that. Great question, thanks for watching. :-)
Wow thanks for answering! I was thinking about this all day haha
I used to drive a school bus and sometimes I had to drive to a near by town that had a blind school. The children would get on the bus and they wanted to touch my hand or arm. They would sing all the way home.
I was always known as “That one blind guy“ all throughout elementary school, junior high, and high school. But I was the first blind kid in my generation in my family to go through schooling so it gave the schools an opportunity to adapt to teaching a blind student, which paved the way for good treatment of my younger brother who is also blind and it set him up for achieving some really high expectations that I had initially caused the teachers to set as I went through school
In fifth grade I knew this Native American girl and she was blind , and she was so nice and I’d hang with her during class and did a project with her one time
i go to school with a blind student :). we've never talked that much because shes not very verbal but she seems sweet
Hey Tommy, my old school had a blind kid in it in an older grade (Looking back on it he was only probably like a 4th or 5th grader but I was a kindergartener at the time.) I don't remember much about him; I just remember him walking around the halls with a cane. I was young so I didn't think much of it. I also remember looking behind his glasses once and I got freaked out because his pupils were rolled back into his head and you could only see the bottom of them.
I had a friend who was mostly blind and had tunnel vision due to an accident, and I knew of a few others. One was this kid naked Brandon who played the trombone in the band. I don't know how but that's cool.
I also did work experience with the blind support worker at our school. She wasn't a very nice woman, though.
Took me a while to figure out he was NAMED Brandon, and not a kid called Brandon who was really into nudist camps...
Emerald Nightshadow how was she mean? I'd like to hear about it
We had a lot of deaf kids at my schools.
But there was one kid who is legally blind, he couldn't see things unless they were 2 cm away from his face.
Hi Tom, there was a blind kid in my class at elementary school.
The things you describe in your video are almost how things went for him! He grew up to be the smartest kid in class and I'm really wondering how he is doing now. I have enjoyed your videos for years now, please keep it up !
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I don't think I actually met a blind person until I was 22. We became great friends. We went to the zoo together and I got to describe all the animals to him. It was a fun time.
I got the notification. I don't if that's still a problem but I'm here to help.
When he said he wore his key around his neck so he wouldn’t lose it just made me wonder what he does when hes misplaced something
I'm a wheelchair user with Spina Bifida. I was the only wheelchair user in my school until high school. Then there was one other wheelchair user. Also a girl who used crutches and also had Spina Bifida. In early elementary school in gym class they had me endlessly dribble a basketball because they didn't know what else to do with me lol. I got very good at it. They also had me do chin ups on the chin up bar. They just had to pick me up and have me grab onto it. I could actually do more chin ups than everyone else in my class. They also had me bat and wheel to the bases in baseball. I liked to wack a ball with a bat and was pretty accurate with it lol. When I got to high school, after we moved to another state, and the ADA was brand new, my new school tried to ban me from gym class (which I loved), and put me on library duty (which I hated). My parents threatened to sue the school per the ADA, and I was magically allowed to take gym class again. I was integrated into regular classes and sometimes went to either a tutor or the special ed room for help with math. People with SB often really suck at math and I do lol. I do well in every class that doesn't involve math. I had two bullies in 5th grade. One was my "best friend." With both of them, once I physically fought back, they left me the hell alone. Just cause I'm sitting down doesn't mean I can't hurt you lol. With my "best friend" once we got to sixth grade, I was able to be around my other true friends and she realized she needed to be nice or she wasn't going to have friends, because the popular crowd didn't want her. Sorry I wrote a novel, but I hope it was interesting for you all. 😉 (I wish I would have gone to school with more disabled people. Maybe like a half disabled population. It's good and healthy to be around "your people." I did go to disabled camp every year though. The best part of my childhood ❤️)
Lisa TheCatDude what a great story, thank you so much for sharing. You are my hero. I am so impressed at what you were able to accomplish, well done. Thanks for watching. :-)
I made a friend in high school that was blind and she was the only blind person in my school. We would go to her house and it was really cool because her parents would let us jump from couch to couch and we would pretend that the ground was lava. She was really good at the game. Now I am raising a son who is blind now 4 years old and he amazes me everyday! Thank you for your videos I love watching them. It was always funny to me his little sister would jump infront of a little car he would ride around the house to get him in trouble but he would know she was there. My daughter is so much clumbsier than my son
I didn't go to school with a blind kid, I am the blind kid. I'm the only one in the school.
What?! Are you blind from birth?
Never went to school with any blind people, but I went to school with 5-6 deaf people and befriended 4 of them. I even learned sign language! Haven't seen them in quite a few years and as a result I'm quite rusty with my sign language skills today
I didn't know any blind individuals until I started to go to a camper for the blind at a school freshman impaired. I did me a six grader that was going t
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I went to community college with a blind girl. She got stuck with her cane getting around some potted plants, and I asked if she needed help. I walked her to class, and we soon became best friends after that. We went to a city to go shopping at the mail, and I got lost leaving the mall. I started describing scenery to her, and she told me which way she thought we needed to go. She was right, and we found the interstate and headed home. We always joked that that was the blind leading the blind.
I've seen more deaf people throughout my education than blind . I believe deafness in the young is more common throughout the general population.
I heard of a blind judo guy. He was very good and a black belt! When in college, my second time in life, there was a blind guy. He used a recorder. Talk about speed talking on that thing! Also, i knew two blind ham radio operators. One of them, he even learned Morse code just by listening. He even passed the toughest radio exam.
I died at 1:54 good stuff
I went to school with a blind kid. He was awesome. Before I actually met him, I bumped into him into the hallway and got his instrument stuck in the door; then I said "Sorry, I didn't see you there." Then I just walked away and waited a few days to say hey again.
Did go to school with a legally blind kid his glasses were super thick and he was really shy I became friends with him in home ec class cause I thought it was funny when we learned to sew. He poked himself with the needle.... Alot
I just discovered your videos and I'm really enjoying them. It's really cool to hear your experiences and how you interact with the world.
“I saw them all day and everyday”
Me: you mean heard... I’m sorry
in elementary school i knew a blind kid, me and him were friends. i learned pretty quickly that he was blind. i don't know if i really knew what blind meant, i just knew he couldn't see very much. so when i played with him, i adapted my play routine so that it was within what he could do. i didn't pity him or baby him, i treated him like any other person. he was difrerent and i was ok with that :)
I love tommys simple jokes
I just love your videos Tommy. Such an inspiring guy. I always look forward to your new videos. Never stop doing them. :)
one of the channels that i always look forward to
I remember when I was in elementary school, I had a blind kid who went to the same school. He wasn't only blind, he also had some sort of mental health problem. I don't know what it was, but that's the only time I can recall going to school with a blind person. I've only seen him in the halls with a walking stick and an assistant.
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How do you double check your spelling and grammar with brail?
I went to school with a blind Asian guy, he had these cool blue shades, and I always thought his watch was neat.
I had a girl in my class who was mostly blind but not totally blind. She would learn braille when we had reading time and similar stuff to you
I help a blind kid in a few of my classes