A winding path

“A huge part of my life was trying to keep up,” he says. At university, reading took him four or five times as long as his sighted classmates and colleagues, meaning hours that others had for socializing, research and other activities, he spent at the library. He didn’t tell students and colleagues he was legally blind. “I hadn’t been telling my students I couldn’t see them in the lecture hall. I hadn’t been sharing this with my colleagues. I was trying to portray this image of productivity and efficiency. It wasn’t great. It made me feel really lonely,” he says. “You’re always faking it.”

Read the complete interview by Leigh Felesky and more about my story here: "A Winding Path" by Leigh Felesky.