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12 years ago
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well the other day i had a situation reminding me i am still mostly blind again. this time at work. i have the ability to control my focus on my eyes and majority of the time its fully manual meaning if i change what i look at i may still have the focus i had on the prior subject just like a slr camera. mostly this is due to one of the many things my eyes have like a delayed or slow reaction to dilate. well being told to get an item off the shelf its not easy when i have to go to a shelf and change my focus to read an object as my eyes dont naturally want to see text as words but images. and often becomes frustrating as when i see this my mind tries to figure out what that image is ofcourse it is nothing and looks like just jumbles this can be frustrating when on a shelf you need a specific item and dont want to get the wrong one. it took me 2-3 tries to get the right thing today . if the graphic image of the text does not have proper contrast or catching contrast it does not pop out as writing to my eyes. certain colors dont do well for making it easy to read like many companies think yellow and blue are good contrast colors yes they are but when you choose yellow text with baby blue they just mold into one blob of crap. just like pink text on white they arent catching and often are ignored by my vision. i survive and most people cannot tell i even have a vision problem but still everyday something in this world gives me a strong reminder of this. i do not wear glasses i trained my eyes but when i wore glasses i had many times where i bumped into objects where i never before .
well im done ranting for the time
well im done ranting for the time
yes there are many who are startign to be more understanding but usually brush it off as macular degeneration. even though im to young for that and that doesnt cause same symptoms^^
Invisible low vision doesn't help when trying to use public transit either. I can't see bus numbers on approaching buses, so I will sometimes flag down a bus. When the driver stops, I ask them if this is the bus for wherever I might be going, If it isn't, some of the drivers get pretty irritated and even yell that should check the schedule before flagging down a bus. I know the route and times. I just can't see too darned numbers on the buses, so checking a schedule does little good. Missing the proper bus usually means waiting another 90 minutes until the next one. People with full vision don't have to guess, because they can read the numbers from 500 feet away.