Comments on: Half the world? Not if we can help it. https://www.iblindness.org/3080/half-the-world-not-if-we-can-help-it/ Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nancy https://www.iblindness.org/3080/half-the-world-not-if-we-can-help-it/#comment-31352 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:08:59 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=3080#comment-31352 In reply to G. Diehn.

Good point Gwen, and me too! I’ve done quite a bit of work around accepting and appreciating my good-enough vision. I was trained as a child that anything less than perfection in school was failure, and I seem to have extrapolated that to my visual acuity too. My eyes see so well for me most of the time, and I’m very grateful.

]]> By: David https://www.iblindness.org/3080/half-the-world-not-if-we-can-help-it/#comment-5253 Wed, 25 May 2016 23:50:10 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=3080#comment-5253 Well that’s a good point. Blurry vision, assuming a person’s vision is normally good, is a warning sign that something is wrong, like pain or discomfort. By relying on glasses you don’t get those warnings, or more accurately, the warning state is “corrected” to hide it, but hiding it in this way only locks it in.

Not wanting to see clear sometimes isn’t good either, but at least that’s a step towards more functional vision, without the whole issue being obfuscated by glasses.

]]> By: G. Diehn https://www.iblindness.org/3080/half-the-world-not-if-we-can-help-it/#comment-5249 Wed, 25 May 2016 01:13:46 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=3080#comment-5249 I wonder if what we consider adequate distance vision is not part of the problem. Years of wearing very strong glasses gave me the idea that I needed to be able to read street signs in the next county! Now that I’ve weaned myself off of glasses I am working to be emotionally comfortable with some blur that increases on dull days and sharpens whenI’m relaxed. I could use help with the emotions around seeing less telescopically.

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