I'm on a field biology trip for a college class, which has been extremely grueling and challenging, especially with my sight issues. I'm blind in one eye, have crap distance vision and lack peripheral vision. My lovely professors have been amazing about making sure I can navigate without breaking myself, for which I'm eternally grateful. The issue I'm having lies with another student in my project group. We are both very take charge people, but we think in very different directions. He likes big picture complicated things and I like smaller scale, simpler experiment designs. We had a meeting tonight to discuss our projects for tomorrow, as well as present our results from today's projects. We had to make a group PowerPoint and present it in front of the rest of our class. Well, he edited my slides without telling me and moved stuff around and put stuff that I was supposed to say on other slides and stuff other people were going to say on mine. He did this after we'd deemed the presentation ready.

It came time to present and my slides looked nothing like how I'd left them format wise. I couldn't see the text, so I had to apologize to the group several times while I struggled to read it on the screen without blocking the projector with my shadow. It was awful. I know that my class and professors understand, but I found it extremely embarrassing because it looked like I didn't know what I was talking about. I managed to hold myself together and work on tomorrow's project, but he kept suggesting we expand things beyond what I'm capable of doing even though I repeatedly examined that our professor had said absolutely not to things like that because it would be physically dangerous for me to do. (He wanted to measure trees on really steep hills between a stream and some uplands instead of on the flat stream edge and the flat upland area for who the heck knows what reason?) It literally took out TA stepping in and saying absolutely not for him to drop it.

I'm honestly just really upset, and tired and I needed a space where people would really understand. My class and professors can try, but they don't completely know what it's like. I've already sent my lead professor a message about it because I didn't want to come off as rude by calling this guy out in front of everyone. Thanks for letting me vent. I apologize if the formatting is a little odd. I'm on mobile.