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Hi there!
Since I am vision impaired, I thought this way would be nice to connect with fellow peoples with a disability and terminal illness.
I was also hoping to collect a bookshelf of books, fiction and non-fiction, based around someone or a group of people that have disabilities.
Questions about my disability are highly accepted, and no question is a bad one!
Milo

Five feet apart:

In this moving story two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

I am only going to suggest two here, although I've read more, but then I am including the link to the three relevant Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ shelves for you ;) The books I am suggesting have over 4 star average ratings on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.

All the Light We Cannot See was a 5 star read for me. I listened to it on audiobook and thought that the narrator did a great job, although of course opinions vary. One of the protagonists loses her vision as a child and this is important in the story.

Nonfiction Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law only spends a chapter on her time at Harvard, but is about a girl who gradually lost more and more of her sight and hearing as a child.


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Milo wrote: "Hi there!
Since I am vision impaired, I thought this way would be nice to connect with fellow peoples with a disability and terminal illness.
I was also hoping to collect a bookshelf of books, fict..."

Tell me about your vision impairment. I have met people with different types, from legally blind but able to basically see things fairly close up with strong glasses, to seeing some light and shadow to seeing nothing. I am happy you are willing to answer questions so people can learn. I think dialogue and awareness help others better understand things, so we don't walk around ignorant. One day one of my kids and I were riding a train from a different town to the city and we sat with a man who had a true Seeing Eye Dog, and he is the one who told us about how there is more than one group that trains dogs, that only one group trains guide dogs for vision impaired people (he said blind) train dogs that should be called Seeing Eye Dogs, and why not all blind people should have guide dogs, which is something I hadn't known before.