People Think They Know What Being Blind Is

I was sitting by my computer a few minutes ago when my neighbors who lives directly opposite came home . The curtains at the window are a little sheer and the dining room was on, so they probably saw me sitting at the computer. I heard a very generous remark from my neighbor whom I'll call Brick (who are of a different faith from me but who I feel sure that I see in my church many times). He said," and she pretends she's blind and everybody have to help her."

Most people think that a person could either see, or they are totally blind. I thought so too, before I descended into the (to me) hellish world of visual impairment. But I have found that there are degrees of blindness. You don't have to lose all your sight to be called 'visually impaired."

There is a chart was upon the wall of the vision field testing room of the eye clinic at our country's main hospital. This chart gives the different visual representation of what a person see in different kinds of glaucoma (which my all my aunts, uncles and one cousin and I have inherited). My particular trouble is tunnel vision, where I can only see right in front of me. But I also have to be careful about steps and sudden drops. I have gotten some pretty nasty falls in the past because of this particular aspect of this disease. 

Many believe that visually impaired people cannot use the computer, read, walk straight ,and so on. It depends on the degree of blindness they are at. Plus, there are different tools and helps built into today's computer especially for the "differently abled." There are even computers built for totally paralyzed people who seem as if they are in a vegetable state. It is operated using the brain waves of the person.

Thank God,  I still have enough sight read (with glasses, which need changing right now, and I can't read small print). My cousin Frank, a IT person, enlarged the scene writing somewhat so that I can read the writing on the screen; I feel he may have to do this again soon. And I tend to list to the left when I walk, and I have to keep looking down to see where I'm walking, OR ELSE, HUH!!!

So, my reply to my dear neighbors are the words that Jesus spoke in the Sermon on the Mount, and which I will use as the verse for today.

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"Judge not, lest ye be judged." Matthew 7:1 (KJV)