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Impact on daily life activities. Some of them you might not think of.
Visual impairment influences our lives in various, even small, situations.
Here to name just a few of them...
The Obvious
Just impossible
Things I cannot do any more due to my eyesight, many of them already are basically impossible for the last few years.- Driving a car or riding a bike or running
- Work productively in my profession with the tools required in my line of business
- Identify/recognize people
- See traffic coming
Hardly possible
Things I have (extreme) difficulties to perform due to my eyesight(many of which cannot be done with help of a smartphone/magnifier)
- Read books or magazines
- Read user manuals, instructions, medication inserts, instructions for food preparation
- Read letters
- See keys on the phone or identify caller/address book entries
- See the bus number
- Read bills/receipts
- Fill forms (especially paper forms)
- Read street signs
- Read a menu in a restaurant
- Thread-in a needle
Maybe Not Obvious
Just impossible
- Understand "visual" instructions like on twist-caps or the like
- See the end of the street straight ahead
- Count items "by the eye"
- Put on nail-polish
- Put on proper eye-makeup
- Making clothes or modifying clothes using a sewing machine
Hardly possible
Things I have (extreme) difficulties to perform due to my eyesight (many of which cannot be done with help of a smartphone/magnifier)
- Measure liquids in a measuring glass, weighing portions
- Read/identify "unknown" or "unexpected" word or signs
- Change settings of the air conditioning
- Remove, e.g., a cactus thorn from my finger
- Read any kind of handwriting (including my own)
- Read text written in capital letters
- Manage online banking (security tokens are a real "killer")
- Follow directions like "you see the blue sign over there, then turn right"
- Find my taxi driver (with a sign stating my name at the airport or see the taxi logo when he is parking a few meters away)
- Shopping for items where I don't know the color/shape or in which shelf they are located
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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.
