For me, how shall I put it, I was never able to see. I was born blind, so I don’t know what it is like to see and to do things with sight. I was always blind, so what I do now and am able to do, I did while I was blind. So, to me it wasn’t a difficult thing. Unless it was something that I had to see to do, like choosing a colour maybe, I can’t do that because I can’t see. But otherwise, things that I could do with my hands, well, what I’m doing, I’m able to do. You understand what I’m saying.

Well, when we were at school, they took us to a doctor to be registered as blind. Because I was born blind, they said there was nothing they could do about it. But you see, as far as I can remember, it didn’t worry me not being… I didn’t realise.

I was able to get up and run around with the children and play and do things. It didn’t worry me that I couldn’t do this and that. If I couldn’t hear them, I would cry, when I was little, you know, and my Aunt would say ‘Go and look for her, why you run away from her?’ and then they would come, my cousins, and we would play again and so on.