Blind from birth, I have never had the opportunity to see myself and have been completely dependent on the image I create in the eye of the observer. To date, it has not been narcissistic. There are those who think that since I can't see, I obviously also cannot hear. Very often people will talk with me at the top of their lungs, pronouncing each word very carefully.  _ , people will also often whisper, thinking that since my eyes don't work, my ears don't either. For example, when I go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for assistance to the plane, he or she will invariably  pick up the phone, call a ground hostess and whisper: "Hi, Jane, we've got a 76 here." On the other hand, others know that of course I can hear, but believe that I cant talk. Often, therefore, when my wife and I go out to dinner, a waiter or waitress will ask Kit if "he would like a drink" to which I respond that "indeed he would". The toughest misconception  of all is the view that because I can't see, I can't work. I was turned down by over forty law firms because of my blindness, even though my qualifications  included a cum laude  degree from Harvard College and a good ranking in my Harvard Law school class. Fortunately, this view of limitation and exclusion is beginning to change... When people talk to the writer, they usually .
talk softly talk loudly take pity on him feel worried about him