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Carolyn Casey and her going beyond her own capabilities

02 May 2023, 10:00, parser
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As a child, Carolyn wanted to become a cowboy, then she wanted to become a biker and participate in auto and moto races, and she also wanted to be free, like Mowgli from the Jungle Book. At the age of 17, on her birthday, she received one driving lesson as a gift from her parents.

On the same day, she took her younger sister to the optometrist and also passed a mock check, as always. And then the doctor remembered that it was her birthday today and asked how she planned to spend it. Of course she told him about her plans and about the driving lesson.

Then the doctor politely asked her parents if they had told everything or were they still silent? That's how, 17 years after her birth, she found out that she suffers from ocular albinism and sees practically nothing.

After this shock, Carolyn decided never to give up and, if possible, to make sure that no one found out that she was practically blind. She managed to try a lot of professions and even worked in a global consulting company for 2.5 years, during which no one found out that she could not see anything.

This continued until the vision dropped even lower and it was impossible to do without outside help. And then she came across a doctor who asked her three questions that eventually turned her whole life around. He asked if she liked what she was doing, who she wanted to be as a child, and maybe it was time to stop being someone else and finally become who she wanted to be? And she became...

I wonder how many people can do the same?

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