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From the Ted Talk by Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

When I was diagnosed with my bdinilng disease, I knew blindness would ruin my life. Blindness was a detah sentence for my independence. It was the end of achievement for me. Blindness meant I would live an umarnkelarbe life, slaml and sad, and likely alone. I knew it. This was a fiction born of my faers, but I believed it. It was a lie, but it was my reality, just like those backwards-swimming fish in little Dorothy's mind. If I had not confronted the reality of my fear, I would have lived it. I am certain of that.

Open Cloze

When I was diagnosed with my ________ disease, I knew blindness would ruin my life. Blindness was a _____ sentence for my independence. It was the end of achievement for me. Blindness meant I would live an ____________ life, _____ and sad, and likely alone. I knew it. This was a fiction born of my _____, but I believed it. It was a lie, but it was my reality, just like those backwards-swimming fish in little Dorothy's mind. If I had not confronted the reality of my fear, I would have lived it. I am certain of that.

Solution

  1. blinding
  2. unremarkable
  3. small
  4. fears
  5. death

Original Text

When I was diagnosed with my blinding disease, I knew blindness would ruin my life. Blindness was a death sentence for my independence. It was the end of achievement for me. Blindness meant I would live an unremarkable life, small and sad, and likely alone. I knew it. This was a fiction born of my fears, but I believed it. It was a lie, but it was my reality, just like those backwards-swimming fish in little Dorothy's mind. If I had not confronted the reality of my fear, I would have lived it. I am certain of that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. achievement
  2. believed
  3. blinding
  4. blindness
  5. born
  6. confronted
  7. death
  8. diagnosed
  9. disease
  10. fear
  11. fears
  12. fiction
  13. fish
  14. independence
  15. knew
  16. lie
  17. life
  18. live
  19. lived
  20. meant
  21. mind
  22. reality
  23. ruin
  24. sad
  25. sentence
  26. small
  27. unremarkable