Paterson's Way Dept.

Now that Spitzer is stepping down as governor of New York, attention has turned to his replacement — Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who is legally blind.  His perspectives on his own situation are well worth reading:

I think I have now learned — and I’m not doing this to be deceptive — but I don’t act the way I did when I was 17, like I can do everything myself, because I realized the minute I do that, no one helps me. So I learned to be a little more pragmatic about life.

I'm close to more than a couple of people who are equally impaired, if not flat-out blind.  All of them, in my experience, have been adamant about having a life that is as close to one that any of the "rest" of us have been living — and for the most part, they get it, although there are times when things break down.  How they deal with those situations is, as they say, the other 90%.