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1. Want to read more? Check out my story on the Diversity & Inclusion Blog on OneSpace and submit your own “I am” poster and story!.I am Jason Bryn. With three generations of blindness from a hereditary and degenerative eye disease (myself, my mom and one of my three children), I understand from first-hand experience the power of limitations. Limitations that others place on us, and that which we put on ourselves. At 23, I lost significant vision and could no longer drive, read standard size print, or walk around without running into things. I lost a coveted corporate job out of college because I could no longer see to work. I was no longer the person I used to be…or so I initially thought. For three years I went through blindness rehabilitation. I learned how to use a cane and get around, memorize environments to confidently navigate them, become an auditory learner instead of a visual learner, distinguish voices, and learn how to fake “eye contact”. I even had a second sports career racing around the world on the back of a tandem bicycle for the U.S. Paralympic Cycling Team. In the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece I placed top 10 in the world in the 4 km pursuit track cycling event and the combined long distance road race and time trial. I holds 7 U.S. national championships, and my U.S. tandem time trial record remains today.For the past 20 years, I’ve knocked down physical and attitudinal barriers while demonstrating that a disability does not always have to be disabling. This is the message I’ve shared throughout my career and will continue to pass along in the future. I am…A husband & father of 3 ANDA former college basketball player ANDLegally blind since birth ANDA law school graduate ANDA U.S. Paralympic tandem cyclist AND Not limited by myself or others ANDEncouraging others to focus on abilities in the workplace, not limitations.What’s your story?What unconscious limits do you immediately place on a person who is blind or has low vision, when you’re trying to figure out how a person might do a certain task?