One thing I heard this week while waiting for class was a few girls talking about things such as their vision (due to one of them not having their contacts). Though I didn’t listen to their conversation fully one thing that struck me was that one of them was saying that they wouldn’t mind being visually impaired because then they could get a guide dog. I didn’t mention to them that it takes more than being visually impaired to get a guide dog, but I wasn’t going to. I mentioned before about how sometimes things that other people have because of disability are somehow “cool”. I suppose people don’t think of the downside to it. My girlfriend has a similar probably with her diabetes when she was in high school. Normally food wasn’t allowed in classrooms, but given her situation she was allowed and everyone wasn’t too happy about it because they wanted to be able to eat. I suppose that’s similar with people who see people who are visually impaired or blind walking around with a guide dog and being able to take it everywhere. There are some benefits to not being able to see well I suppose, but personally I’d much rather b able to see normally, be able to get around and drive where I wish. Be able to not have to worry about all the downsides than whatever “perks” I may gain from having this disability, but that’s just me.
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Wait… where did that colour come from?
I’m not sure if anyone else who has limited vision has this, but sometimes I see colours where there aren’t colours. They aren’t bright, but they’re there. So if I look at something white, grey or some other colours I’ll see a shade of another colour depending on the light. Usually red, yellow, green, blue and purple. It’s interesting. I’m not sure why my eyes do it, I suppose it’s just my eyes associating colour where there really isn’t any accidentally. Of course there is no way to really show it so I can’t really prove it or explain how it really works. It also works with numbers and letters sometimes where certain letters take on a certain colour. Guess it makes plain things more colourful.