As she stood at the top of the Empire State Building, Wyatt reflected on the difference between these two trips.
“I couldn’t really tell the enormity and the vastness of where I was in retrospect to when I was sighted, at 16 years old,” says Wyatt. “I couldn’t tell the scale of the size of the buildings and the vast expanse of what I could see beyond, and how everything got tinier and tinier and tinier, the further away it was. Of course I couldn’t experience that in the same way that a sighted person can.”
But Wyatt felt like she had a greater appreciation of the “essence” of New York City this time round, as she focused on absorbing the city with her other four senses.
