The Life of the Visually Impaired
Being visually impaired is not easy. Daily tasks require more work than before. Clever techniques are required to navigate places independently. Just walking around is hard; it feels like walking through air until you run into something. Most times, visually impaired people are dependent on others for help even though they want to lead a rather independent and normal life. Financially, because jobs not as available to the visually impaired, so they suffer from financial issues. Also, emotionally, visually impaired people often feel like burdens because they require assistance throughout the day. Education must be adjusted so they can learn, and most times, they find themselves frustrated because they can’t do things that they used to be able to do. Adjusting into a visually impaired lifestyle is hard work and requires guidance from parents and friends.
Financially, the visually impaired suffer because there are less jobs available for them. In this depression, jobs are handed to those who are not disabled, can work efficiently, and can earn companies money. As for the visually impaired, simple tasks take almost five times more work and/or time, making them not ideal for job positions. Also, many companies have begun to layoff workers, including the visually impaired.
As for medications, everyone takes medications. However, since blindness is most commonly caused by diseases, which can sometimes be treated through medications or by surgery that requires medications afterwards. Either way, everyone has to take medications at some point, and it is vitally important that a person takes the correct medication at the right time with the correct dosage, which the visually impaired often find troubling because they require assistance to read the prescription labels.
Emotionally, visually impaired people are depressed. They require support from friends and family, and their mobility is often limited. Many find themselves wishing to be able to see again, which is now possible with the new advances in technology. However, many cannot afford the expensive operations and live their lives dependent on others, feeling like they're burdens. Sometimes, families cannot afford the time to take care of the visually impaired and have them enrolled in nursing homes or hire people to take care of them, leaving them lonely and despondent. It is really important that someone who is visually impaired has the full support of his/her family and can count on people to help them through their disability until they because comfortable with it and accept it.
Financially, the visually impaired suffer because there are less jobs available for them. In this depression, jobs are handed to those who are not disabled, can work efficiently, and can earn companies money. As for the visually impaired, simple tasks take almost five times more work and/or time, making them not ideal for job positions. Also, many companies have begun to layoff workers, including the visually impaired.
As for medications, everyone takes medications. However, since blindness is most commonly caused by diseases, which can sometimes be treated through medications or by surgery that requires medications afterwards. Either way, everyone has to take medications at some point, and it is vitally important that a person takes the correct medication at the right time with the correct dosage, which the visually impaired often find troubling because they require assistance to read the prescription labels.
Emotionally, visually impaired people are depressed. They require support from friends and family, and their mobility is often limited. Many find themselves wishing to be able to see again, which is now possible with the new advances in technology. However, many cannot afford the expensive operations and live their lives dependent on others, feeling like they're burdens. Sometimes, families cannot afford the time to take care of the visually impaired and have them enrolled in nursing homes or hire people to take care of them, leaving them lonely and despondent. It is really important that someone who is visually impaired has the full support of his/her family and can count on people to help them through their disability until they because comfortable with it and accept it.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
― Tennessee Williams