#vision stuff

[senseiwu]

maybe "glasses are disability aids" things wouldn't tick me off as much if people online actually included blind and visually impaired people in their advocacy, or hell, even DISCUSSIONS, of disability.

(Seriously. Look at posts about disabilities and count how many times you see blind people. Bonus points for low vision, because we don't exist apparently, and vision is either all or nothing. People couldn't even name BLIND PEOPLE, who the thing was INVENTED FOR, when listing people who were likely to use screen readers. SCREEN READERS. (Unsurprisingly, visually impaired people were not mentioned either.)

Maybe it wouldn't tick me off so much if people didn't mock others for using light mode. (White text on black is NOT the most accessible for everyone; people with astigmatism and probably some other conditions can get a halo effect which can make it harder and even uncomfortable to read.)

Maybe it wouldn't tick me off so much if people online didn't mock people, especially older people (guess what, your vision deteriorates as you age), for having big text on their phones.

Maybe if the various types of white canes were included in mobility aid posts.

I don't know why it ticks me off so much. By definition, if someone's vision is normal with proper correction, they don't even HAVE a disability... and I think more people need to realise that glasses do NOT fix everyone's vision... with the strongest prescription, my corrected vision is only 6/38.

I don't know where this is going. Blind and visually impaired people being ignored or just forgotten, left out. Pisses me off. Especially when I see people constantly accusing us of faking (or being accused of that myself)

[underslept-and-overdressed]

so maybe this is somehow wrong or bad of me but anyway:

I can’t exactly explain why, but it always makes me uncomfortable when abled people use disabled people achieving goals (winning sports tournaments, awards etc) as inspirational/motivational stories. It’s often followed with something like “See! Look at that disabled person! They can achieve their goals even though they’re at such a huge disadvantage. Don’t you feel inspired?”. It always makes me feel wrong.

I don’t want to be another story about someone overcoming insane odds. I don’t want to want to be a face on your motivational poster. I don’t want to be your hero, your inspiration. I don’t want to be made into your example.

I don’t want to be the exception to the rule.

[autisticchangeling]

I finally have a stick on prism to help my strabismus! It's really weird though, because it makes everything blurry through that eye and it makes everything look a little wonky, but it does help. If it continues helping I can get them built into my glasses so they're not as blurry.

Also apparently the esotropia got worse because my eyes just decided "screw this" and got tired of correcting it because it was too much work, which. Mood

She's referring me to a strabismologist to discuss surgery, because I'm leery about the idea of someone operating on my eye and wanted to actually talk about it with someone first.

She also confirmed once again that vision therapy wouldn't help and also that the bifocals that optometrist gave me are doing nothing because I don't have convergence insufficiency. So I think that optometrist just kept trying to treat me as though I had convergence insufficiency because that's what she was familiar with, even though that isn't the issue I actually have.

[fitofpaige17]

Man... Fuck y'all people who don't have vision problems.

I mean, I love you, but also fuck you XD my brother included in this. Hows it gonna be that our mom and dad both have vision problems, and I'm nearly blind, and he has perfect vision? Now that I think about it, my half-brother is the same. WHY AM I THE ONLY HARD OF SEEING SIBLING?

why I gotta pay to be able to see??? 😭

[rhetoricalrogue]

Gaming is going even slower than usual, mostly because I’m taking overly cautious eye rest breaks. The other reason is that I’ve got some hellacious light sensitivity today and Izzy is being majorly helpful by pushing aside the patio blinds and letting sunlight in right where I’m sitting.

Izzy: you’ve been in the mostly-dark apartment since Friday! Time to let some sun in!

Me:

Izzy: I helped!

She’s such a good therapy cat, y’all. She takes breaks between sitting next to me with a paw on my knee to go eat and then starts screaming at me as she makes her way back up to the sofa. I don’t speak cat, but she’s probably asking if it’s time for me to put in my next round of eye drops, put in artificial tears, or telling me that I should probably get some more water since the bottle next to the sofa was empty when she tried to knock it over ten minutes ago.

[vicharacterdaily]

VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHARACTER OF THE DAY:

Duncan, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

[Image: An older man in the garb of the dark ages, with a stick, and a bandage over his eyes.]

(link to the wiki article)

Duncan was blinded by the Sheriff of Nottingham’s men when he would not give up Robin Hood’s location. 

[senseiwu]

Digital Braille will never NOT be funny to me

My friend said it was used as a code or something in a Pokemon game and I just

It's so funny

[autisticchangeling]

Myopia, screen use, and the way we talk about it

(Myopia is nearsightedness, I'm just pretentious and find nearsighted vs farsighted harder to keep track of than myopia vs hyperopia)

I always get frustrated with those articles that are like "myopia epidemic! Screens are bad!!" Because like, what exactly do they want us to do about that? Everything requires you to use digital technology now - School, finding a job, doing your job, often. And people also need social interaction and entertainment, and especially now those are also done with a screen.

It would be one thing if they were actually recommending some sort of societal change, but often I finish articles like that feeling like I've been reprimanded for something I can't change. And that's never a fun feeling

Not to mention the fact that myopia risk is also increased by lack of sunlight and higher levels of fluorescent lighting, so the myopia epidemic also has something to do with the amount of time children spend in schools and the amount of time they spend doing homework and fixing that involves evaluating how we think about education, and also capitalism and its role in both education and whether or not people can spend time playing outside.  but somehow that never comes up.

I also get irritated on a more personal level because like, I needed glasses by the time I was six if not sooner, and I definitely played outside a lot as a kid and I don't think I used a screen as often as I do now, but I still need glasses and am at -6.5 in one eye, -5 in the other! So it's possible to do everything right and still end up with crappy eyes.

Plus the fact that my strabismus means I get double vision looking at things far away, and therefore screens and close work are my best option for relaxing and spending time outside, while nice, is more exhausting for my eyes. And I know that wasn’t caused by screen use, though what it was caused by is unclear (possibly a concussion when I was two? Or the fact that I had a traumatic birth? Or bad luck?)

(I might have needed glasses when I was four, but apparently when I had my eye test for the preschool thing I was in I overheard them saying what the answers were so I just cheated. At least, according to my mom. I have no recollection of this)