The scene looks like any school. The brick buildings, covered with ivy, stand tall. A small playground is off in the distance.

On the interior, though, this school looks different. Along the long hallways, many decorations are translated in Braille and students take out their canes, ready to walk to their next class.

Children's Express talked with five students at the Indiana School for the Blind in October to find out their fears, dreams and views of the world. In talking with them, we found out that although they had the same dreams, heroes and hobbies as we do, the words "it's just not fair" kept on arising.

ADAM, 9: I don't like to be called "blind," because people make fun of you for being blind. We're just like regular people, only we just can't see very well.

MINDY, 9: I'd rather be called "visually impaired," because it makes me feel better. It doesn't make me feel like, "Man, these kids are stupid. They can't do much just because they're blind." ("Blind") makes me feel like I'm some idiot.

It's just sad that we can't see everything that happens in their world. Everyone goes "cool," "neat," "bad" and we're going, "what," "what," "what?"

If I were to tell the country anything about visually impaired people, I would say, "Hey, you guys may not know very much about visually impaired, but we can do many things that you can do _ just a little differently, and it might be a little harder (for us)."

In school we don't appreciate being called "Braille students," . . . and we don't appreciate people saying, "You can't do this, you can't do that."

We can do many things, just in a harder way, maybe. We can still write, we can still learn, we can still play games . . . I'd show them the stuff that I could do. I'd show them the Braille writer . . . Then, I'd invite a volunteer up on stage and have a beeper ball. We'd play catch, and roll the ball back and forth and stuff.

STEPHANIE, 11: I'd say, "Hey, we're not dumb. We can do as many things as you can. We can do some things that you can't do." So just remember, we're the same, but in different ways.

SARAH, 11: What really irritates one of the teachers here is when (people) yell at her very loudly . . . and then she has to say, "I'm blind, I'm not deaf."

One time I was going down the right stairs and this boy said, "Wrong stairs, dummy." And I just hated that. I say, "No, I'm on the right stairs" and he goes, "No." I hate that.

LISA, 11: Some lady asked my sister if I could feed myself!

Some people think, "Well, they can't do that because they can't see. But we can. We can tie our shoes, brush our hair and put on our clothes and all that.

I want to tell you something that we can do and they can't do. We can read in the dark. If it's time to go to bed, you can put a book under the covers and read it . . . Everybody would know if other people did it, because they'd have to have the lights on.