Visual Impairment

Doing the Vision impairment simulation was definitely a lot more difficult than I thought, it made me really grateful for the vision that I do have
Some of the surprising difficulties were
-I already had bad vision so it was tricky with the masks because through the small part I could see it wasn't clear.
-It was hard to drink water because you could only see through a small hole and if you were looking at the water it would be too far from your mouth. So you couldn't see that water when you drank it. Which made me just have to use trial and error to find where it was at.
-It is interesting that sounds started to seem a little bit louder and overwhelming with a lot of things happening that I was not aware of.
-I couldn't do homework because my eyesight wasn't good enough without my glasses
-Also it kept seeming like there was someone standing next to me when they weren't
-I could never find my mouse, I would move it around for 20 seconds trying to see it, but that made it too quick for my vision to pick up
-It made me nervous when people stood near me, because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus on what they were saying.
-I started typing and doing my homework and then saw that I wasn't even on the correct page
-I went to the office and tried talking to the people next to me but couldn't tell if they were looking at me or listening so I kind of just had to point to the sign up sheet and check for myself
my vision is already not so good so it was really tough to read the numbers
So over all I learned a lot about different visual impairments and it made me want to research them more to see what could help people. Also it made me realize how much it really did make simple tasks difficult.

Having such a hard time seeing and feeling lost and helpless to do things such as my own homework made me realize how some people really must struggle on a daily basis to be able to even see. It made me firstly very grateful for my vision but it also made me want to help those with vision that wasn't good. One of the ways it made me want to help others would be to make sure that if someone in my class did have a hard time seeing that I would print them out parts of the lesson in very large font, or assign a child next to them to read what is on the board. It made me realize that sometimes even if a child is at the front of the room it still may not be sufficient to help them. It made me want to help in any way possible to make modifications that they asked for, or that their parents needed. Because I realized it truly is impossible to do home work or focus on what is written on the board when you can not even see it. I definitely want to help others feel accepted and accommodated.