Caroline Casey
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Caroline Casey was a normal girl who lived a normal life. She loved cars, speed, and she always dreamed of learning how to drive. It wasn't until her 17th birthday when she finally found out that she was legally blind. Of course she knew she couldn't see very well, but her parents made the decision not to tell her that she was blind, so that she could live without limits, and without feeling like there were things she couldn't do. They wanted her to grow up to her full potential.
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Caroline was someone who liked to do things on her own, she never wanted to admit that she had a problem, because she didn't want to think of herself having a problem, she saw herself as a strong women. But as time went on, and her eyesight rapidly declined, she was forced to do something she thought she would never do. She told her supervisor that she couldn't see and she needed help. She was then sent to an eye specialist who would have a very large impact on her life. He asked her who she wanted to be and advised her that she should do something different in her life. She was stubborn and didn't want to listen to this advice, until after her meeting with the eye specialist. She was out on a job that she knew very well, when she fell on a rock, and finally realized it was time to stop being stubborn. She really couldn't see and it was time she did something other than pretend like it wasn't her reality.
As a child, she had always wanted to be Mowgli from The Jungle Book, because she saw him as being free. So when she fell on that rock, and decided it was time to change her life, she decided to be Mowgli. She set out to pursue her new dream of being an elephant handler. And a few short months after that decision, she was in India about to trek one thousand kilometers across india. Because she was able to finally accept her obstacles, she could overcome them. She persevered through being legally blind, and changed her life so that she was living more fully than she ever had before.