A clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice in Teaneck, New Jersey. For more information about the author, click here. Please recall that the ideas contained in these essays are my own, and that I use Dean Tuttle's work simply as a jumping off point.
Vision loss is just that, a loss.
Not seeing well and not seeing at all can leave a person feeling frightened and with a sense of disconnection from the world, from people, places, and things. You can hear the sound of the T.V. but the picture is vague or absent. You can hear or touch your honey but not see the twinkle in their eye or the smile on their face. Print reading is gone forever if you are blind. If you are visually impaired, the experience is transformed from a simple and pleasurable one to one that a ten year old boy once described to me as one as frustrating as trying to drink a thick milkshake through a squashed and really bent straw.