Anne, 40s, blind since birth
"I think it is hard to get work experience as a blind person, perhaps more so than with other disabilities. I think there are very serious prejudices against blind people, from both employers and people in general. They think that we can't get upstairs, read or write, do this or that".
"They [employers] fear they'll have to adapt their workplace, that we won't be as quick or productive, or that other people will have to do part of our job...People also fear blindness...they think 'if I couldn't see I couldn't do anything' and they transfer that onto the blind person...I have been denied interviews before because I would have to go upstairs to get to the interview! So? I do that every day!"
"I would like it if people in general and employers in particular, saw us for what we are, saw our skills and could see past the blindness...if I didn't feel I was sidelined and disadvantaged all the time...talk to us more, tap into our skills, its not just non-functioning eyes, there is a whole person behind there".
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