WEBVTT 00:10.893 --> 00:12.631 There are only light 00:12.631 --> 00:14.747 and big patches of color in my world. 00:15.071 --> 00:17.790 I couldn't accept myself in the past, 00:17.790 --> 00:20.272 but now I can tell you proudly 00:20.272 --> 00:23.448 that I'm the first severely visually-impaired psychologist in Taiwan. 00:29.852 --> 00:32.866 I used to be very proud of myself. 00:32.866 --> 00:35.496 I got top grades, 00:35.496 --> 00:37.787 and was good at PE, music and art. 00:37.787 --> 00:40.970 I also won a championship at the Science Fair. 00:40.973 --> 00:43.893 But my life disintegrated after I 00:43.893 --> 00:47.245 had a brain tumor when I was 15. 00:47.614 --> 00:49.564 My right eye is completely blind 00:49.565 --> 00:52.038 and my left eye can only see light and patches of color. 00:52.038 --> 00:54.511 My right ear is completely deaf. 00:54.511 --> 00:55.759 The left side of my body 00:55.759 --> 00:58.143 is paralyzed, like a stroke patient. 00:58.512 --> 01:01.875 At the time, I couldn't accept the situation. 01:01.875 --> 01:03.221 So I really wanted to 01:03.221 --> 01:05.316 give up on myself. 01:05.576 --> 01:07.727 But thanks to my parents' love for me... 01:07.729 --> 01:11.524 My dad trained me to use a white cane to go to school. 01:11.524 --> 01:13.874 He didn't let me know he was watching after me. 01:13.874 --> 01:17.377 He watched me fall and get up by myself. 01:17.379 --> 01:20.127 That was the first time in my life 01:20.127 --> 01:23.477 I felt that I was facing obstacles alone 01:23.477 --> 01:26.652 and had to move forward by myself. 01:32.072 --> 01:33.783 I started to learn braille. 01:33.783 --> 01:37.293 I went from memorizing braille to feeling them on a metal plate, 01:37.293 --> 01:39.436 and then to reading normal braille. 01:39.819 --> 01:41.836 I began to learn how to walk. 01:41.836 --> 01:43.377 I learned to walk with a cane 01:43.379 --> 01:44.829 and make a mental map, 01:44.834 --> 01:48.402 which was totally different from my pervious sighted world. 01:48.402 --> 01:52.217 When I slowly accepted I was visually impaired, 01:52.217 --> 01:54.636 when I started to use a white cane, 01:54.641 --> 01:56.618 when I let people know 01:56.618 --> 01:59.075 that I needed their help, 01:59.075 --> 02:01.601 I felt that I had gradually accepted myself. 02:01.601 --> 02:02.527 Two more steps. 02:02.527 --> 02:03.091 Okay. 02:04.212 --> 02:05.977 Please sit here and wait for me. 02:05.977 --> 02:09.398 Okay, please guide my hand to the chair. 02:09.398 --> 02:10.096 It's right here. 02:10.096 --> 02:12.608 Okay. Thank you. I got it. 02:13.424 --> 02:16.978 Only when I'm responsible for my life 02:16.978 --> 02:20.370 can I launch my future. 02:28.668 --> 02:29.953 After I graduated 02:29.953 --> 02:32.473 and obtained my counseling psychologist's license, 02:32.477 --> 02:34.640 my life descended into another black pit 02:34.640 --> 02:36.552 because no one knew how to make use of me. 02:36.553 --> 02:39.556 No one knew how to work with a visually-impaired psychologist. 02:39.556 --> 02:42.294 So all the resumes I sent out got no response. 02:42.294 --> 02:45.792 I had to call them one by one to tell them 02:45.792 --> 02:48.026 what I could do. 02:48.026 --> 02:50.612 It's alright. I can volunteer and help. 02:51.252 --> 02:53.610 I only need a chance. 02:53.610 --> 02:54.527 Alright. 02:54.527 --> 02:57.499 Please contact me if you have the need. 02:57.504 --> 02:59.502 No matter how far the place was 02:59.504 --> 03:01.456 or whether I was good at a topic, 03:01.456 --> 03:03.113 I would go for it. 03:03.113 --> 03:06.770 More and more people were willing to give me a chance later on. 03:06.770 --> 03:10.227 Plus, I majored in special education in college, 03:10.227 --> 03:16.327 so not only can I provide counseling to people with disabilities 03:16.331 --> 03:19.074 I can also let them understand that I feel what they feel. 03:19.074 --> 03:21.507 When our mind is willing to become healthy, 03:21.507 --> 03:24.077 we'll be able to face many challenges in life. 03:24.077 --> 03:25.502 Despite the obstacles we're facing, 03:25.502 --> 03:28.404 we can confront them honestly. 03:28.670 --> 03:31.147 I love the feeling of affecting 03:31.147 --> 03:33.379 and touching other people's lives. 03:35.095 --> 03:38.302 Hi, Judy (pseudonym). Please have a seat. 03:38.305 --> 03:39.396 Thank you. 03:40.884 --> 03:43.527 Judy, I haven't seen you for a week. 03:43.530 --> 03:45.104 How have you been doing? 03:45.104 --> 03:47.232 I began to ponder deliberately. 03:47.232 --> 03:49.227 I can't see. What else do I have? 03:49.233 --> 03:51.233 I realized that I can still hear. 03:51.233 --> 03:54.130 So I learned to feel people's emotions 03:54.130 --> 03:58.877 from their breathing, tone, pauses, and long and short tones. 03:59.084 --> 04:02.771 I also trained my sense of touch and perceptions. 04:02.771 --> 04:04.521 When I am with a person, 04:04.521 --> 04:07.777 I try to feel his or her feelings 04:07.778 --> 04:10.052 by opening up my senses. 04:10.052 --> 04:11.066 Slowly, 04:11.066 --> 04:16.365 I found my own path to do counseling. 04:17.974 --> 04:20.127 People might think that 04:20.127 --> 04:23.355 visually impaired people have a lot of limitations. 04:23.355 --> 04:25.334 But I believe that 04:25.334 --> 04:28.173 visually impaired people can do lots of things. 04:28.173 --> 04:32.157 Actually, physical adventures can spur spiritual adventures. 04:32.157 --> 04:34.311 So I've tried a lot of them. 04:34.311 --> 04:37.935 I then realized that how wonderful the world is, 04:37.935 --> 04:41.529 and I shouldn't limit myself within a certain frame. 04:43.981 --> 04:44.604 Alright? 04:44.604 --> 04:45.344 Yes. 04:47.490 --> 04:48.316 This step is wider. 04:48.316 --> 04:50.427 There's a shallow hot spring. 04:50.442 --> 04:52.646 Next to it, there are some raised rocks 04:52.646 --> 04:55.077 that we can sit on 04:55.080 --> 04:57.596 and put our feet in the hot spring. 04:58.201 --> 05:01.130 When we face difficulties, 05:01.130 --> 05:04.420 we all sink into a dejected, dark whirlpool. 05:04.424 --> 05:06.752 When you walk out step by step, 05:06.752 --> 05:08.598 you'll be stunned to find out 05:08.598 --> 05:10.808 how wonderful life actually is. 05:11.501 --> 05:14.127 If you asked me 05:14.127 --> 05:15.832 whether I wanted to have my sight back, 05:15.832 --> 05:17.679 I think of the high school me 05:17.679 --> 05:18.799 who just lost her sight 05:18.799 --> 05:21.511 would tell you,"Yes! Yes! Yes!" 05:21.511 --> 05:25.377 But I learned how to make peace with my condition, 05:25.377 --> 05:29.052 when I was in college and the graduate school. 05:29.052 --> 05:30.568 I also found out that 05:30.568 --> 05:33.702 I'd learned a lot due to my blindness. 05:33.714 --> 05:37.118 I learned to use my heart to get along with people. 05:37.126 --> 05:39.578 I learned to see the good in people. 05:39.586 --> 05:42.481 If you asked me now whether I wanted my sight back, 05:42.489 --> 05:43.667 I'd tell you that 05:43.683 --> 05:46.191 I'm fine with or without vision. 05:46.191 --> 05:49.410 So I like who I am now very much. 05:50.168 --> 05:53.309 Accepting what we can't change. 05:53.321 --> 05:56.410 Working hard to change what we can change. 05:56.410 --> 05:59.661 Believing we can create a better tomorrow.