My dark classroom was usually a bug-infested storage closet under the stairwell or an unheated supply room. The faculty preferred segregating me from the normal classroom, as I was viewed as a distraction that might hinder the studies of other students. Year after year, a list of specialists voiced the hopeless, unanimous diagnosis, "She'll be totally blind before she is 21 and she needs to be institutionalized." Then I met Dr. Albert Sutton, who assured I could realize my dream of obtaining a driver's license by training my eyes to see. After working with his pioneering concept of neurological therapy, I became one of many successful cases where people with legal blindness could now drive a car.