Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into the senses. by Ryan Knighton WHITE C2006 > Nonfiction > Autobiography > Memoir > Disability > Humour > Canada On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional. In this memoir, he tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally illuminating the wonderful strangeness of our own, sighted world." "Knighton learns to drive while unseeing has his first significant relationship - with a deaf woman navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms learns to use a cane and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. "On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness.
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