Re: The Eye Conditions Topic
Glaucoma and cateracts? Hay Orko, snap .
My family have congenital glaucoma and Cateracts, which while supposedly a 1-4 chance affected both my grandma, mum and now my brother and I.
In my brother's case the congenital cateracts were removed at birth and he has since had partial sight, able to use a screen magnifier and read normal print with a heavy magnification, though he does suffer severe photosensitivity.
Unfortunately, I wasn't quite so lucky. I was born prematurely and an to remove cateracts and insert artificial lenses went rather wrong (it had never been tried on a prem baby before), and resulted in my eyes being severely damaged through oxygen deficiency.
I was left with light, dark colour, and while I learned braille I could conceivably have used a magnifier, though only at a large magnification size.
Wh en I was 7 however, an operation to reduce the pressure caused a massive expulsive haemorrhage in my right eye so I lost all of my vision in that eye.
these days I am not sure how much vision I actually have, not very much, but enough for light dark and colour, though certainly not enough to read print.
I am on a bunch of eye drops to keep my pressurestable which have worked up to now, plus occasional extra Diuretic if I ever feel my pressure is increasing, which usually comes with pain and headaches.
The one thing I can say though, is I was glad I was born in the eighties since had I not been I probably would never have gotten into gaming. Roughly speaking the more complex the game and it's viewpoint, the harder for me to play. I could never read in game text, but I could use text highlighting to make guesses at menus. This meant while rpgs were always out, I had a lot of fun with 16 bit era games from beatemups, to puzzle games to my particular love, e xploration platformers like the mega man, Metroid and Turrican series.
When things went 3d in the 32 bit era, everything pretty much went down the tubes for me. I could still play beatemups, but that was it, indeed I first came across audiogames since I was running out of stuff in the mainstream I could play.
Btw, yes I know there are many totally blind people who play by sound, memorization and guesswork, but that just isn't an adequate experience for me, since I do want to for example know where my character is and what is around me.
I'll also say that on the topic of sleep I'm not exactly great either, and my wife (who is totally blind has it even worse).
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