I went blind due to bad luck, at least that’s what my doctor told me.
I lost lost my left eye to a detached retina, normally a quick fix but the only medical coverage I had at the time was the VA, they put me on a 6month wait list and by the time I got scene it was so far gone they refused to operate.
That was almost 9 years ago.

About 4 years ago I started having issues with my right eye, they found that I had glaucoma in that eye and the pressure was extremely high. By the time they got it under control I had lost roughly 80% field of vision.

Back in May of this year, They found cataracts in both eyes, but due to some complications from previous surgery’s they have been hesitant to operate.

The bad luck of it all is the first two types of vision loss were neither genetic or from any sort of trauma. They just randomly happened and each one is exclusively in its respected eye. They don’t know why,.

If I had my vision back for a day I would probably just drive around. I miss the freedom of being able to drive, maybe to watch a movie in theaters so I can see the whole picture again.

1. Infection. I had a really bad inflammatory response to strep throat (I have PANDAS), and my brain swelled. It compressed my optic nerve, hypoxia, boom. I went from 20/20 to 20/500 in a few months.

2. Probably go to a library? Seeing is overrated, but a lot of books aren't accessible to me if the print is too small, and I'd like being able to just snag a random book and trust that I could read it

Genetic condition, vision slowly got worse then rapidly declined. Stable now at 20/300 legally blind but still have sight. (Stargardts)

I can see just not how others do. I miss looking at people straight on/eye contact. I can tell it makes some people uncomfortable when I talk to them and looking to the side of them. (Tip of shoulder area)

Eh, seeing is kind of overrated. I'd probably spend the whole time thinking that everyone got really old looking and that visible pores are gross.

Helen Keller wrote an essay on what she'd do if she couldsee for three days. Personally I think it's a bit much but maybe it's more what you're looking for. You can find it $1.

> How did you go blind?

I lost my sight after almost 32 years fighting a congenital glaucoma.

> If you could see for one day what would you do?

Probably nothing, one day is not enough to accomplish what I want, and I don't really miss vision, only the functionality that comes with it.

Before going blind I was a software developer with experience in network services and operating system kernels, two things that regular users don't see. When I started losing my sight I quit my job in order to investigate what was wrong, but because I couldn't stop learning I decided to focus into desktop and mobile development, particularly for game development, however despite gaining the knowledge I never had the opportunity to do anything with it since I ended up going fully blind, and because of that I feel rather unaccomplished. I did develop a very small 3D iOS game back in August just to prove a point, but hated depending on the sighted for testing.

I am not actually blind but replying for my friend, who is hanging out with me:

“1. I randomly went blind due to a genetic disease.

2. I’d like to go look at titties again or something, and drive a car again for the day.”

1) Rare degenerative condition that went undiscovered and untreated thanks to a quack of an optometrist.


2) Eye contact. That's one of the things I miss most.

1. Basically born this way and experienced significant degradation over time.
2. Go to a gay pride parade to get oversaturated by colors/glitter and then climb a mountain to see how far/what I could see from the top.
3. Alternately, freak the hell out. When you're not used to something it's not always fun to deal with it. A friend of mine had temporary better vision after eye surgery and said the "sharp" way people looked was horrible. She was glad when her vision went back to being the way it was before.