Dear Fern, My love of makeup really did start when I grew closer and closer to my sister. As a little girl myself and Alice would argue like any normal sisters and didn’t feel as if we had too much in common. We both – independently of each other – went onto YouTube and…Read more Letters to a Blind Girl #13
Letters To a Blind Girl #11
Dear Fern, I am so happy to hear that you are uploading! It is so fab to have so many disabled voices online. I really do enjoy YouTube and if I am to give you any advice as you are starting out it would be to upload content you enjoy making. Over the years I…Read more Letters To a Blind Girl #11
Letters To a Blind Girl #9
Dear Fern, I take great inspiration from many people, art forms and concepts in my life and I believe it brings me great happiness. Finding one thing that inspires you may ignite some desire in you that you may not have ever thought about. I know that when I see fitness vloggers eat…Read more Letters To a Blind Girl #9
Letters To A Blind Girl #7
Dear Fern, In all truth a lot of things inspire me. From the people in my life to all of the challenges I have faced – so I thought I would list a few things I am grateful for: 1. My lovely partner, family and friends 2. Olga, my lovely life long companion who will…Read more Letters To A Blind Girl #7
Letters to a blind girl #5
Dear Fern, It is easy to find yourself thinking that someone else’s grass is greener but if we don’t stop and think about what we have and what we can become then our own lives are consumed with someone else’s. This is no way to live. If you let comparison of another become all…Read more Letters to a blind girl #5
Letters to a Blind Girl #3
Dear Fern, I totally agree that when I first lost my sight I did judge people. I didn’t look beyond their disability because I wasn’t able to look beyond my own. As I started to connect with more disabled people online it started to make me want to associate with the disabled community because it…Read more Letters to a Blind Girl #3
Letters to a Blind Girl #1
Dear Fern, I never used to want a friend who had the same disability as me because I didn’t accept my own. I felt that letting myself have a friend that dealt with the same things made my blindness more real. I desperately wanted to forget about not being able to see but the problem…Read more Letters to a Blind Girl #1
Thoughts on a random Friday in January
Hey guys and welcome back to YesterdaysWishes! It is January and I am finally getting round to writing a blog post! I have made many resolutions for this year and I thought better late than never to talk about them on here! I am a very obsessive person in the sense that I always need a…Read more Thoughts on a random Friday in January
A journey to School
I love this blog post as it provides an accurate account of what blind trainee teachers face. I really feel that it’s important to spread awareness of the barriers blind people encounter when pursuing a career path they love. Laura is lovely, go over and follow her blog!
It is Monday. It is cold. I am running late. I haven’t had time for any breakfast. I am, in short, in a right mood.
Now although these opening statements may give the impression that our tail is doomed, there is one saving grace to this story. Being blind means that I have kindly been granted a taxi which takes me to and from school. This is funded by the disabled students allowance (DSA) provided by Student Finance England. (A brief note, I believe our oh so benevolent current government are doing away with this allowance at the end of this year. If you are reading this post after 2016, funding is still available however I believe that universities themselves will now be asked to foot the bill, contact the disability adviser at your university to ask about this). Anyway, access to this makes my life so so so much…
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My Struggle With Inviting Music Back Into My Life
To me, music was something I had been associating with my sighted life and I hadn't let it into my blind world yet. When I was younger I always played the guitar; I used to watch my sister playing in her room and my friend Jess post videos on YouTube. I always watched my hands…Read more My Struggle With Inviting Music Back Into My Life
Lucy Edwards 