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How you can trick yourself
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by Jutta Miroiu-Dunker
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How easily you can trick yourself and others.
The "look around the corner" that I always mention, can trick oneself and others. For example:
… at the optician
You may also trick an optician or ophthalmologist to a certain extent.
I found myself (with the still better functioning eye) "automatically" looking somehow next to letter chart of the eye test, and - thanks to years of experience and exercise – albeit mainly unwittingly - recognized the letters quite well.
I did that so well, that just a couple of years ago, an ophthalmologist told me that I could still drive a car.
"Ha-ha", I thought. If he knew how much I really do recognize, and why I gave up driving.
The letter charts still have a good quality - they are static and have a certain size. They don't disappear as fast as on a large poster, where suddenly some letters are missing.
And each and every twinkle of of the eye will change the picture...
… in everyday situations
Quite a few years ago, I was in a big electric store looking around for the TV offerings.
"Wow, how cheap are the 55" smart TVs!"
Well, that price changed immediately, when I stepped back a few steps. I had missed the thousand’s digit on the price tag.
Only when changing the line of sight and distance, I noticed the mistake...
What a pity. 300 Euros would have been a good bargain.
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About this text
Jutta's Story texts were originally written in 2016-2017.
Since end of 2018 I am officially legally blind.
And I am proud to be a member of the Malta Society of the Blind.