Post by toni on Nov 17, 2011 19:41:17 GMT -5
antonia honor barnett
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: none;,true][cs=2][atrb=width,300] hey there. the name's antonia honor barnett! i go by toni, tone, princess too if you were wondering. also i'll have you know that i am twenty-one & loving it. oh. you've heard that I'm heterosexual? & that I'm from beverly hills? well the rumors are true for once. well I gotta get going, college is calling. see ya'! history "Alright...I'll just start this off in the simplest place. At five years old I was diagnosed with a eye disease known as retinitis pigmentosa. It's basically an incurable disease that slowly deteriorates my vision. The books I've read basically say: "Retinitis pigmentosa is an eye disease in which there is damage to the retina. The retina is the layer of tissue at the back of the inner eye that converts light images to nerve signals and sends them to the brain." So, to put it simply, I grew legally blind over the years since I found out I had it. But to find out how that happened I'd have to start from the beginning. My parents were two high-class lawyers that were raised and soon bought a house together in Beverly Hills. They both graduated the same year from different high schools, so they didn't really know each other until law school at Harvard. They got engaged their second year but didn't want to marry until they were both graduated and had a good place in a firm, just happened to be the same firm. Around three months after they finally took the plunge and walked down the aisle, my mother discovered she was pregnant with me. It fit right into their life plans so it was like I was just expected to be just as perfect as they were. For five years I was their little conversation starter at parties they would host and functions I was taken to, almost as if I was the belle of the ball, as some say. Then they noticed I continuously ran into things at night, sure that can be acceptable but when it wasn't even that dark and I had to feel around me just to move around the house? That seemed to be too problematic for them so they took me to an eye doctor to see if I needed glasses or something. It ended up being this untreatable disease and told me I would eventually be legally blind in my adult years. This ruined my parents idea of me being the ideal princess but it actually turned up the parenting meter in their brains. They instantly did everything just to make sure I was comfortable with this and secretly checked everyone to see if there was a cure. As a teenager I could only see what was directly in front of me, my peripherals were completely black to me. This was around the time my father started banning me from so many things just because I would "get hurt" or it was just "unthinkable for a girl like me." So, as a normal teenager, I rebelled and tried to go against everything he expected of me. Which usually just consisted of me sneaking out of the house and hanging out with my friends...but after almost being hit by a few cars on the way to said friends and breaking my leg from running into many things not being able to see at night without the bright sun to help my disease-ridden eyes, I learned my lesson and did what I was told. I think I was categorized as legally blind when I was eighteen after I moved out here with my parents for college, a lot earlier than most with retinitis pigmentosa, but the doctors said my case was so severe it would most likely make my vision completely black by the time I turned thirty. So, basically, now I still have to live at home with my parents because they don't trust me having my own place while going to school because I'd get hurt. Also, I have my baby, a golden retriever named Lyla, she's my seeing-eye dog...I refuse to have one of those ridiculous canes and hit others with it. I can still see about the size of a miniscule pebble in the dead center of normal people's vision, but everything else is black to me...and it's even pretty blurry so that doesn't help much. I can get around just fine, I have this city almost completely memorized, basically the bus stops and Lyla knows where to go for my classes so I get along just fine. Sometimes people are nice enough to help but I don't need them, I don't like people knowing I'm blind so I don't wear those sunglasses or keep that gaudy harness on Lyla. Only way I tell someone is if I desperately need help...which I try not to do." personality STUBBORN: Throughout her entire life she has always wanted to do her own thing, be her own person, and not be known as just a Beverly Hills princess. So, after finding out about her disease she was almost happy about it knowing it would keep her different from other people, even if she doesn't want people knowing about it. She doesn't like needing help and she definitely doesn't like having to ask for it. If it was up to Toni she would do everything on her own, well with her seeing-eye dog. She hates the word no and refuses to admit to not being able to do anything, she will work her little heart out to be able to do something just because someone told her there was no way. She made her life goal to be able to walk around and appear to have perfect vision. STRONG: Throughout her life she couldn't have been any more understanding and determined to live a normal life. Back in her home town she made sure, while she could still somewhat see, to memorize every turn and traffic light in her normal hangouts, neighborhood, and even in the school just so she could walk by herself without someone pitying her. After moving to Bluewater she did the same with a textured map. She knows how to get around her house without anyone's help, knows how to get to school and what bus to take and the familiar driver's voice, memorized the smells of each area she loves to go to have her alone time. She wants to be able to convince passing people on the streets that she is a normal person, not to be looked up to, not to be pitied, just someone passing on the street. HONEST: Toni cannot stand when people lie to her about anything, so she is a firm believer in the idea of treating others the way you want to be treated. So she is completely honest to the people she knows, even if it hurts them. She knows that if she tells someone the truth and they close her off from their life that they weren't a true friend. She loves reading, yes she knows how to read braille, and the stories in her book are what she expects her real relationships to be. Her friends should stick through anything with her, not matter how troubling or complicated, and her intimate relationships should be complicated but exciting, she knows this. Only time she does lie is if she truly knows it would destroy someone she cares about a lot, to try to spare their feelings...well, and if it helps her to sneak away from the ever-watchful eye of her father. CARING: Even though she can't live life to the fullest, she hopes others can live the thrilling and love-filled life she can't expect to have, no matter how hard she tries. Toni likes to think of herself as more mature than most of the people she gets around so she tries to be the 'mother' of her friends and the rest of her family, even her own parents. They continuously try to say "what's best for her" but she is sure she knows what is best for them. She carried this trait on into what she is going for in school, she wants to be an English teacher, or professor, she hasn't decided between grade school or college. She isn't happy with her day unless she has helped someone else out, whether she knows them or not. | [atrb=width,200] |
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