Date: 2010-11-16 03:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] whitemage
The legal definition for "legal blindness" is 20/200 or worse with corrective devices (glasses, contacts: surgery is not counted). The medical definition is usually either 20/180 or 20/200 or worse, correction not counted--but yeah, don't quote me on that. Optometrists know their shiz.

The first definition is the one that gets you handicap tags/permits and tax deductions.

Both mean you are free to bitch, with or without a label, because not seeing sucks.

Your story about getting your first glasses reminded me of when my mother had her cataract surgery, when I was 3, coinkydinkly, and she said the very same thing when she came home with the eyepatch off after the first surgery. "Oh, my! LOOK AT THE LEAVES! INDIVIDUAL LEAVES!!!" It was a spiritual experience for her. Then her next comment was, looking at my father clearly for the first time: "My god! You have SO MUCH GREY HAIR!!!"

That pretty much killed the magical wonder of it all. (And no, this isn't a, 'hey! let's make you think things might be WORSE if you saw well!' story. I just am eternally amused by it.)

But, yeah, I'm scared to freaking death about eye surgery, as in, it making me blind. I can't imagine being where you are and considering it. My eyeball fun pales in comparison.
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