How To Live With Blindness
Globally at least 1 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed.
How to live with blindness. A newly blind person normally needs the help of a rehabilitation specialist to adjust to living without sight or with impaired sight. Hence when the latter is preoccupied looking at a movie blind people depend upon their hearing to follow it. For the 314 million visually impaired individuals and the 45 million blind individuals in the world as estimated by the world health organization daily tasks that seeing people take for granted can become difficult challenges 1 from getting dressed in the morning to cooking breakfast a blind person must organize his life meticulously to live independently.
Never touch or grab a blind person in efforts to assist. Kim tindall is a member of the east hartford chapter of the national federation of the blind of connecticut before going blind kim owned and directed a funeral home and in this article she describes how traumatic she found going blind to be and how determined she was to find the independence she had lost. Hearing is the basic sense for blind people while for the sighted is their vision.
Some legally blind people have limited vision others can see some in different light levels such as dusk or cloudy light and yet others may have pinhole vision or peripheral vision. These are the common coping skills blind people must learn to. Remember that not all blind people are 100 blind.
The challenges in going blind and learning to live again. It is challenging being blind but it is a lot less challenging than a lot of other things. I accept this now but i was in denial for 30 years.
When it comes to blindness people need to realize that yes it s hard. But i was trained as a mechanical engineer and working full time. The majority of people with vision impairment and blindness.
Fine details of the reactions of people being diagnosed with vision loss might vary to a certain degree but the overall sentiment remains almost the same. Individuals who live with blindness don t have senses with superpowers though they depend upon their other senses to navigate in the world. It s true that vision loss leads to some limitations blind people can t drive cars or pilot airplanes for instance.
Any type of impairment you have is hard. According to national eye institute 5 million americans will be suffering from low vision by 2030 with 2 2 million expected to be afflicted with blindness just to give you an idea of how severe eye problems are becoming in the u s. But that doesn t mean they can t live full independent lives on par with their sighted peers.
In another a majority of respondents believed that going blind leads to a loss of independence.
