Kaitlin DeFoor’s Reviews > Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice > Status Update

“And sometimes I lose opportunities because I won’t shut up, but that just means that it wasn’t for me, it wasn’t genuine or didn’t authentically align with my values, so I wouldn’t have really wanted it anyways.”

“A product or service being inaccessible is to me as a blind person is just one small, subtle way the world says, oops, we forgot about it you. Or worse, you don’t matter to us. The fact is, inaccessibility IS discrimination. We usually think of discrimination as an active choice, but passive behaviors can be just as damaging. And there’s no reason in this day and age it should still be an issue.”

“I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never please everyone with who I am or what I do. Just like the saying goes, “you can be the juiciest or ripest peach but some people don’t like peaches.” And I’d like to add that, some people are allergic to them and that’s ok. They aren’t your people, they aren’t your audience…”