I may have to do it differently, with more planning, but do it I will." Rizzi now runs his own educational organization, My Blind Spot-"because we all have blind spots."ĭonna Flagg, 45, is founder and CEO of the Krysalis Group, New York-based business consultants whose motto is "Business NOT as usual." "Everything we do challenges the status quo," says Flagg, who early on-dyslexic and labeled retarded-was sensitized to looking at everything in novel ways. The blind are great problem-solvers, for example, because we always have to assess our environment to keep from falling down stairs." What's normal? "I'm an overachiever I want to believe I can do anything I want. I'm angry they're not more available-and that businesses don't understand how able we are. They tell me, for example, what color my clothes are. "There are technologies that allow us to do things. Disability is imposed on me," largely, he says, by society's fear of blindness. "I look at my blindness as a characteristic. It helped that his father told him, "Accept it be the best blind person you can be." He did have to come to terms with a whole new way of living. He didn't panic events in the "'tween state" had somehow prepared him. Albert Rizzi, 45, woke from a months-long coma brought on by meningitis and discovered he was blind.
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