Monthly Archives: May 2015
Blind Voters
The UK parliamentary elections are just four days off. How can blind people mark their ballot slips on the 7 May? For most of my voting life I never gave this the slightest scrap of thought, but my recent experience … Continue reading
Crossing the Bridge: Fear of Tumbling
I’m not scared of crossing bridges as such. Just footbridges, and especially this one. It’s at my local railway station and I need to go over it to get to London. There’s a specific anxiety disorder concerned with crossing bridges. … Continue reading
Posted in Blindness and visual impairment, Disability, Old age, Stroke
Tagged acrophobia, bridge anxiety, fear of falling, gephyrophobia
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