[BRLTTY] HumanWare/Braillant question

[Nicolas Pitre]

Here's an article that might answer some of your questions about me:

https://thenewstack.io/nicolas-pitre-inspiration-linux-world/

Blindness is certainly a major obstacle to many things in life, but in 
many cases it is not the only one. Just like for sighted people, you 
first need to find what your topics of interest are, and leverage them.

One of my best friend, who also happens to be one of the original BRLTTY 
co-authors, has been completely blind since birth. This didn't stop him 
from doing woodwork with serious power tools, or from playing with all 
sorts of microcontrollers to create toy projects like laser-based wall 
finders, etc. You may read about his talking multimeter here:

https://github.com/sdo9/talking-multimeter

So it really depends on what your interests are more than blindness, just 
like it is for sighted people. If you discover a passion for something, 
then exploit it and don't let others bring you down just because you are 
blind. Conversely, if you feel you are genuinely inadequate at something, 
it is most likely that you would have been inadequate even if you were 
sighted. We all have different talents.


On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Shérab wrote:

> Okay, thanks a lot, Nicolas.
> 
> Did you acquire these skills before you lost sight, or were you able to
> acquire them whereas you were already blind?
> 
> I home it's not a too personal quesiton, I am just trying to figure out
> whether I, being completely blind, would be able to progress in this
> area.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Shérab.
>