I wish I got to know her better. Apparently she’s not completely blind, as she can see shapes and colors. I was reading about her childhood and how she gradually lost her eyesight. She’d read books closer and closer to her face much to the chagrin of her teachers. So she’d memorize passages at night and if they happened to call on her to read she’d more or less remember where that part was and read it from memory. They put her in the front of class without addressing her disability, and since she still couldn’t see the writing on the chalkboard clearly enough, she’d watch the movement of her teacher’s hand while writing to deduce what words she was writing. Kind of like lip reading for deaf people. As for hanging out with her friends, she’d deduce from the intonation in their voice what exactly they were pointing at, if the thing was cute, weird, disgusting, or awesome she’d respond with what was appropriate. 

It’s amazing how people adapt and change isn’t it? Can you imagine memorizing pages and pages of text so just so you could seem like you were reading?