During her seventh grade class, sophomore Lydia Olmsted received an assignment her teacher explicitly referred to as the “dumb kid” worksheet. The teacher wasn’t confident in Olmsted’s abilities, not because she was behind in math or any of her classmates, but because Olmsted was born blind.

My brother truly is like no other As a little girl, I loved playing with my younger brothers, Matthew and Daniel, and my younger sister, Jessica. Since the four of us are only four years apart, it wasn’t...