A group of visually handicapped teenagers were interviewed about their thoughts and hopes as they approached the end of their formal schooling. In this paper, an account is given of what they had to say about (a) possible advances in medical science that might affect them, (b) the attitudes of society towards them, and (c) their anxieties concerning the threat o f nuclear warfare.
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