| Description | Interview with Jean Russell, proof reader at the Scottish braille press. She continues to talk about her experiences of blindness and being pushed into a limited range of jobs by teachers at the Edinburgh Blind School and how she came to work as a music transcriber at the Braille Press in her thirties. She discusses spending her leisure time with sighted friends, her experiences of being an adolescent and dealing with blindness, being hurt by the sighted community and feeling isolated and immature in comparison to sighted friends. She talks about feeling scared to risk having relationships and getting hurt, feeling different and being reluctant to use touch to conduct relationships because society discourages it and because it is a stereotyped characteristic of blind people. She talks about disliking people pitying her and her desire to be seen as a person, regardless of her disability (tracks 1-5).
Track 6: silence 1.38 mins
Total: 16.31 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0998580 |