“Any physical defect - be it blindness, deafness or congenital dementia - not only changes a person’s attitude to the world, but first of all affects relationships with people. An organic defect, or vice, is realized as a social abnormality of behavior. Even in a family, a blind and deaf child is, first of all, a special child; an exceptional, unusual attitude arises towards him, not the same as towards other children. His misfortune is the first to change the social position in the family. And this develops not only in those families where such a child is looked upon as a heavy burden and punishment, but also in those where a blind child is surrounded with double love, tenfold care and tenderness...”