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Speaking into the Void When you lose sight, you lose a big part of ordinary conversation. This is hard to recognize when your loss is new. There is so much confusion and change: But there’s a void in ordinary communication. Talking seems weirdly hollowed out! Of course it’s due to […]

Description: A woman with a white cane puts her credit card into the gloved hand of a cashier. People who see well (and maybe you in the past) use their eyes, faces, and bodies all the time to add to what they say. They make eye contact, turn towards you, or smile, but to you […]

This hot summer is not over yet, and there may still be travel, family visits, parties, or shopping for a bigger hat! It’s 4 years since the worst stage of the Pandemic yet the effects (and the virus) linger on. We who live with low vision or blindness were severely affected even though many of […]

I have always hoped that my book, When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery would be used as a teaching text for people losing their sight. Now it’s happening at the Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco! Here is an interview with Sabrina Bolus, the Adult Programs Specialist who directs their “Vision” […]

Be My A Eye uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to announce what is on a countertop, desk, or patio in wonderfully full detail, but it makes mistakes! Here’s a photo of my deck and here’s the description “The picture shows a cozy outdoor deck area of a house. The house has a cream-colored siding with […]

Now the pandemic is mostly in the past I am updating and re-posting a few posts with good information that you may have missed . Reading how other people have battled to regain skills and confidence after losing a lot of sight can be really comforting and helpful. So can guides to living with blindness […]

When you are close to someone losing sight, especially if you live together, the shock and grief for you at first can be almost as great as for the person losing vision…And you aren’t getting the special attention or professional care that may be offered to your partner, (parent, brother, or best friend.) You will […]

“When you see well, your brain is processing thousands of images a day, including those seen for only a split second. So when damage occurs to your vision, the brain can get creative and keep on generating images—filling in the poor quality ones coming from the eye. This is worrying! Some people fear that dementia […]

My Heart is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception by Michael Nye was published in 2019. It contains 45 in-depth conversations with people who live with low vision or blindness. The interviews are full of revelations about the many ways blind people use perception. They are about to be launched in a weekly podcast. Here […]

Vision loss and Personal Recovery

WHEN YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES

Welcome

When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

Speak Up Skills

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Speaking into the Void

Speak Up Skills: How to Speak Up When You Can’t See Faces or the Visual Cues Coming Your Way?

Retrieving Your Speak Up Skills Post-Pandemic

Interview with Sabrina Bolus, Lighthouse for the Blind San Francisco

Have You Tried the New AI feature on “Be My Eyes”? It’s Fun!

Fall Reading: Creative adjustment to Vision Loss, Memoirs and More, Updated

Resources for Partners, Family and Close Friends of Someone Losing Sight

CBS, Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Freaky But Often Goes Away

My Heart Is Not Blind Podcast: Conversations with People Who Live with Blindness