Sometimes well-meaning people stop Jackie McBrearty on the street and tell her they’ll pray that God will restore her sight. A stranger once suggested: “You should talk to Jesus”. Another complained that “people like you” should wear a bandana telling the rest of the world what her disability is. “I said ‘does the guide dog not give it away?’ and she said ‘no’,” recalled the 38-year-old, shaking her head in amazement at the things people say.
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