The young girl glides gracefully down the escalator in the BART station with her long white cane. At the bottom, she laughs and says, “That’s so funny” as people look on in wonder. For anyone in the station that night who believed that blind people are dependent and helpless, their attitudes were likely changed by watching this tiny girl move so fluidly and independently.
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato’s first child was born at 25 weeks