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Anyone not formally diagnosed yet? (self.Blind)
submitted by Icy_Accountant_8197
Currently I'm still waiting to be able to get a real diagnosis even though I personally know what my visual difficulties are. Unfortunately my issues are mainly neurological so it's difficult to get a real diagnosis as there's not much wrong with my eyes themselves aside from just poor acuity. But the way I understand it, I would probably qualify as legally blind.
In the meantime, how do you all deal with feeling like an imposter? What do you tell other people when your vision problems come up? Do you inform people that you have a visual impairment etc?
On top of feeling like an imposter, I'm still also having issues with the general feeling of shame that seems inevitable with having difficulty seeing. A lot of people just don't get that I can't see as well as them and it's embarrassing and frustrating. How do you all deal with this stuff?
In the meantime, how do you all deal with feeling like an imposter? What do you tell other people when your vision problems come up? Do you inform people that you have a visual impairment etc?
On top of feeling like an imposter, I'm still also having issues with the general feeling of shame that seems inevitable with having difficulty seeing. A lot of people just don't get that I can't see as well as them and it's embarrassing and frustrating. How do you all deal with this stuff?
Mendy3273 3 points 1y ago
If you have access to a Neuro-Ophthalmologist, it might help.
Icy_Accountant_8197 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Yeah I'm working on it, but it's just not in the cards at the moment.
redmarus 3 points 1y ago
I'm in your shoes too and dealing with it poorly ! But just turning on some basic accessibility settings for my phone & computer helped me override a bit of the shame and impostor-y feeling, both because it reminded me that vision problems are common and accounted for, and the amount of eyestrain it saved reminded me it was worth it. Best of luck figuring out what's going on, hope it's not just some stress induced neurological disorder bullshit because there's something so humiliating about losing vision because your brain is too preoccupied to see.
Icy_Accountant_8197 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thanks, I'll see if that helps, and yeah when I'm in busy or stressful environments it certainly doesn't help matters. It's especially humiliating when I'm out with someone and I don't notice something right in front of me, or misjudge it.
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
No need to have shame about it. Blindness is not shameful. It’s just something you struggle with. And you’re not faking it it’s genuinely something you’re struggling with.
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