I would be disappointed if the only insight sighted people got about what it feels like to lose your sight was the one from this story. Everyone reacts differently, but it’s rare to see experiences like my own in popular media, while Emma’s reaction seems like the default. As a newly blind person you learn so many new ways of doing the things you want to do, and I always felt a terrific sense of achievement when I was shown how to accomplish things I had feared might be impossible without sight.
My own sight loss started in my late twenties and I found the new challenges I faced to be exasperating at times, but on the whole they were stimulating. I’m sure that somewhere, there is a teenager dealing with blindness exactly this way, but most of the blind people I’ve known, teenage or otherwise, were less melodramatic about their sight loss. Of course it’s extremely difficult to unexpectedly lose your sight, but it appears to be Emma’s sole characteristic it’s sadly hard to see beyond her reflections on what she can’t do now that she’s lost her sight to actually find out how she’s adapting and adjusting.
As I read this book I kept thinking, Crikey, what a gloomy teen, and reading about her was equally gloomy. Blind is the story of Emma Sasha Silver, who loses her sight in a firework accident.
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