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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
- blinding
- unremarkable
- small
- fears
- 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.
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Important Words
- achievement
- believed
- blinding
- blindness
- born
- confronted
- death
- diagnosed
- disease
- fear
- fears
- fiction
- fish
- independence
- knew
- lie
- life
- live
- lived
- meant
- mind
- reality
- ruin
- sad
- sentence
- small
- unremarkable