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ivybgreenflower) wrote2011-02-09 06:10 am
ivybgreenflower) wrote2011-02-09 06:10 am
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EYES
So I went to another eye doctor today.
He actually found something wrong! I've always wondered why I always bumped into walls or found myself reaching out to touch things in front of me, like a blind person checking where they are, and of course when I was taking driving lessons my poor instructor was like "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S WRONG :( WHY CAN'T YOU LEARN :( WHY ARE YOU HITTING ALL THE CONES :(" And of course I have always been horrendous at sports.
The last doctor I went to brushed me off and said I should just practice more, and yes, he literally suggested I drive more. Because when you have an inability to judge distance properly, the way you should fix that is by getting in a several ton vehicle on the highway. I'm sure people driving at the same time I am would be just thrilled to drive with me. NO GO AHEAD, BUMPING INTO PEOPLE IS HOW YOU LEARN! what.
So bscly he did all kinds of weird tests involving my looking at things and weird little glass circles that I learned are called prisms and eventually I found out some of the muscles in my left eye (and in my right eye too but not as bad) are kind of lazy and derpy and bscly don't do what they're supposed to. My brain says GO HERE SO WE CAN SEE THIS WAY and they go OVER HURR? and my brain is like CLOSE ENOUGH and then I hit a mailbox. He even asked if I saw colors differently out of each eye! Which, of course, I do. Righty is my red eye and Lefty is the blue eye. I mean, it's pretty subtle, but still.
So I have to get new lenses WITH PRISMS for my glasses. Good news is I don't have to get like dorky frames or anything, I can continue using my own. PRISMS. Like magic eye fixy things. Apparently they can take up to 2 weeks to get used to. YAY BEING MOAR BLIND but only for awhile so it's okay and it's not like I go anywhere anyway.
If they don't work I'll have to have a year of twice a week, 3000 dollar vision therapy. Which is an hour away. NO THNX.
He also said that many people who don't want to bother with the therapy actually patch one eye to drive and drive one-eyed. SOMEDAY I MAY BE A BADASS DRIVING PIRATE. Oh my God, I would totally get a custom patch. Like I'd bedazzle it and shit, it would be so cash.
He said what it was called. I don't remember though :( And searching just brings me to webmd, who of course brings up both lupus and cancer. I DON'T HAVE EYE CANCER WEBMD.
Of course my prescription is horrendous. 20/375 in the left, 20/400 in the right. LEGALLY BLIND DERP HI SCOTT LET'S BE FRIENDS WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.
I was meandering the internet and I came across a term I was unfamiliar with so I wikipedia'd and basically discovered I HAVE A LEARNING DISORDER which NOW LIFE MAKES SENSE and also THERE IS A NAME FOR NUTCASES LIKE MEEEEE
IT IS THIS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalculia
LET US EXAMINE IN-DEPTH (BUT NOT IN-DEPTH PERCEPTION BECAUSE MINE IS WONKY).
-Frequent difficulties with arithmetic
-Difficulty with everyday tasks like checking change and reading analog clocks (DON'T EVER ASK ME TO COUNT SOMETHING FOR YOU I WILL COUNT IT WRONG. ALSO I CAN'T TELL TIME.)
-Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook. (DERP.)
-Difficulty with multiplication-tables, and subtraction-tables, addition tables, division tables, mental arithmetic, etc. (CASE IN POINT THIS EVENING I WAS PLAYING BLACKJACK AND ADDED UP TWO SIXES AS SIXTEEN.)
-May do fairly well in subjects such as science and geometry, which require logic rather than formulae, until a higher level requiring calculations is obtained. (I WAS ACE IN ALL SORTS OF SCIENCEY SHIT AND EVEN GOOD AT GEOMETRY UNTIL SHIT GOT REAL IN THE SECOND SEMESTER).
-Difficulty with conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time. May be chronically late or early. (WHOOPS LATE AGAIN! AS ALWAYS! AND AS YOU ALL KNOW I FREQUENTLY SAY "LAST WEEK OR LAST MONTH IDK, I DON'T GET TIME".)
-Particularly problems with differentiating between left and right. (I GIVE DIRECTIONS BY SAYING "MAKE A THIS WAY" AND POINTING AT FAMILIAR HOUSES.)
-Might do exceptionally well in a writing related field- many authors and journalists have this disorder (WHAT'S THAT? A DEEP DESIRE TO BECOME AN AUTHOR? ME? WHY YES. YES I DO)
-Difficulty navigating or mentally "turning" the map to face the current direction rather than the common North=Top usage. (WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS EAST SHIT)
-Having particular difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 10 or 20 feet (3 or 6 metres) away). (I AM SO BAD AT THIS I OFTEN USE MYSELF AS A MEASURING STICK. HOW MANY TIMES CAN I LAY DOWN IN THIS AREA?)
-Often unable to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulae, and sequences. (LOL ALGEBRA I FAILED U SO MANY TIIIIIMES)
-Difficulty keeping score during games. (DERP.)
-Difficulty with games such as poker with more flexible rules for scoring. (OH GOD YES.)
-Difficulty in activities requiring sequential processing, from the physical (such as dance steps or sports) to the abstract (signaling things in the right order). May have trouble even with a calculator due to difficulties in the process of feeding in variables. (SO BAD AT SPORTS. SO BAD AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. SO BAD AT DANCING. WAIT WHAT COMES NEXT? AND ALSO BAD AT CALCULATORS.)
-The condition may lead in extreme cases to a phobia or durable anxiety of mathematics and mathematic-numeric devices/coherences. (I'M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING SO LET'S COUNT THIS TOO.)
-Low latent inhibition, i.e., over-sensitivity to noise, smell, light and the inability to tune out, filtering unwanted information or impressions. Might have a well-developed sense of imagination due to this (possibly as cognitive compensation to mathematical-numeric deficits). (IT'S LIKE THEY KNOW MY BRAIN GET OUT OF MY BRAIN WIKIPEDIA. I'M ALWAYS SNIFFING PEOPLE AND I AM SO SO EASILY DISTRACTED BY MUSIC I HATE I CAN'T TUNE OUT ANYTHING EVER. EVER.)
A study published in Current Biology to "investigate the feasibility of using noninvasive stimulation to the parietal lobe during numerical learning to selectively improve numerical abilities" used transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) and demonstrated improvement that was still present six months later.[11]
LOL NO I'D RATHER JUST BE PERMANENTLY BAD AT MATH THNX.
ANYWAY THAT IS A LOT OF RAMBLING. SO BYE. -6:09 AM
He actually found something wrong! I've always wondered why I always bumped into walls or found myself reaching out to touch things in front of me, like a blind person checking where they are, and of course when I was taking driving lessons my poor instructor was like "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S WRONG :( WHY CAN'T YOU LEARN :( WHY ARE YOU HITTING ALL THE CONES :(" And of course I have always been horrendous at sports.
The last doctor I went to brushed me off and said I should just practice more, and yes, he literally suggested I drive more. Because when you have an inability to judge distance properly, the way you should fix that is by getting in a several ton vehicle on the highway. I'm sure people driving at the same time I am would be just thrilled to drive with me. NO GO AHEAD, BUMPING INTO PEOPLE IS HOW YOU LEARN! what.
So bscly he did all kinds of weird tests involving my looking at things and weird little glass circles that I learned are called prisms and eventually I found out some of the muscles in my left eye (and in my right eye too but not as bad) are kind of lazy and derpy and bscly don't do what they're supposed to. My brain says GO HERE SO WE CAN SEE THIS WAY and they go OVER HURR? and my brain is like CLOSE ENOUGH and then I hit a mailbox. He even asked if I saw colors differently out of each eye! Which, of course, I do. Righty is my red eye and Lefty is the blue eye. I mean, it's pretty subtle, but still.
So I have to get new lenses WITH PRISMS for my glasses. Good news is I don't have to get like dorky frames or anything, I can continue using my own. PRISMS. Like magic eye fixy things. Apparently they can take up to 2 weeks to get used to. YAY BEING MOAR BLIND but only for awhile so it's okay and it's not like I go anywhere anyway.
If they don't work I'll have to have a year of twice a week, 3000 dollar vision therapy. Which is an hour away. NO THNX.
He also said that many people who don't want to bother with the therapy actually patch one eye to drive and drive one-eyed. SOMEDAY I MAY BE A BADASS DRIVING PIRATE. Oh my God, I would totally get a custom patch. Like I'd bedazzle it and shit, it would be so cash.
He said what it was called. I don't remember though :( And searching just brings me to webmd, who of course brings up both lupus and cancer. I DON'T HAVE EYE CANCER WEBMD.
Of course my prescription is horrendous. 20/375 in the left, 20/400 in the right. LEGALLY BLIND DERP HI SCOTT LET'S BE FRIENDS WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.
I was meandering the internet and I came across a term I was unfamiliar with so I wikipedia'd and basically discovered I HAVE A LEARNING DISORDER which NOW LIFE MAKES SENSE and also THERE IS A NAME FOR NUTCASES LIKE MEEEEE
IT IS THIS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalculia
LET US EXAMINE IN-DEPTH (BUT NOT IN-DEPTH PERCEPTION BECAUSE MINE IS WONKY).
-Frequent difficulties with arithmetic
-Difficulty with everyday tasks like checking change and reading analog clocks (DON'T EVER ASK ME TO COUNT SOMETHING FOR YOU I WILL COUNT IT WRONG. ALSO I CAN'T TELL TIME.)
-Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook. (DERP.)
-Difficulty with multiplication-tables, and subtraction-tables, addition tables, division tables, mental arithmetic, etc. (CASE IN POINT THIS EVENING I WAS PLAYING BLACKJACK AND ADDED UP TWO SIXES AS SIXTEEN.)
-May do fairly well in subjects such as science and geometry, which require logic rather than formulae, until a higher level requiring calculations is obtained. (I WAS ACE IN ALL SORTS OF SCIENCEY SHIT AND EVEN GOOD AT GEOMETRY UNTIL SHIT GOT REAL IN THE SECOND SEMESTER).
-Difficulty with conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time. May be chronically late or early. (WHOOPS LATE AGAIN! AS ALWAYS! AND AS YOU ALL KNOW I FREQUENTLY SAY "LAST WEEK OR LAST MONTH IDK, I DON'T GET TIME".)
-Particularly problems with differentiating between left and right. (I GIVE DIRECTIONS BY SAYING "MAKE A THIS WAY" AND POINTING AT FAMILIAR HOUSES.)
-Might do exceptionally well in a writing related field- many authors and journalists have this disorder (WHAT'S THAT? A DEEP DESIRE TO BECOME AN AUTHOR? ME? WHY YES. YES I DO)
-Difficulty navigating or mentally "turning" the map to face the current direction rather than the common North=Top usage. (WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS EAST SHIT)
-Having particular difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 10 or 20 feet (3 or 6 metres) away). (I AM SO BAD AT THIS I OFTEN USE MYSELF AS A MEASURING STICK. HOW MANY TIMES CAN I LAY DOWN IN THIS AREA?)
-Often unable to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulae, and sequences. (LOL ALGEBRA I FAILED U SO MANY TIIIIIMES)
-Difficulty keeping score during games. (DERP.)
-Difficulty with games such as poker with more flexible rules for scoring. (OH GOD YES.)
-Difficulty in activities requiring sequential processing, from the physical (such as dance steps or sports) to the abstract (signaling things in the right order). May have trouble even with a calculator due to difficulties in the process of feeding in variables. (SO BAD AT SPORTS. SO BAD AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. SO BAD AT DANCING. WAIT WHAT COMES NEXT? AND ALSO BAD AT CALCULATORS.)
-The condition may lead in extreme cases to a phobia or durable anxiety of mathematics and mathematic-numeric devices/coherences. (I'M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING SO LET'S COUNT THIS TOO.)
-Low latent inhibition, i.e., over-sensitivity to noise, smell, light and the inability to tune out, filtering unwanted information or impressions. Might have a well-developed sense of imagination due to this (possibly as cognitive compensation to mathematical-numeric deficits). (IT'S LIKE THEY KNOW MY BRAIN GET OUT OF MY BRAIN WIKIPEDIA. I'M ALWAYS SNIFFING PEOPLE AND I AM SO SO EASILY DISTRACTED BY MUSIC I HATE I CAN'T TUNE OUT ANYTHING EVER. EVER.)
A study published in Current Biology to "investigate the feasibility of using noninvasive stimulation to the parietal lobe during numerical learning to selectively improve numerical abilities" used transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) and demonstrated improvement that was still present six months later.[11]
LOL NO I'D RATHER JUST BE PERMANENTLY BAD AT MATH THNX.
ANYWAY THAT IS A LOT OF RAMBLING. SO BYE. -6:09 AM
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lmao i love your bad eyes. bad eyes run in my family. i need a new prescription which might be bad because i have a really thick lens in my one eye which barely fits in my glasses anyways, so hopefully it hasn't gotten WORSE and i'll just have to give up and start using a telescope or something. i think the last time i went the doctor told me i have like holes in my retina or something and he was like DON'T WORRY IT'S NBD and i was like OKAY HOLES IN MY RETINA THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE I'M GOING BLIND AT ALL IF YOU SAY SO.
ALSO IT'S NEVER LUPUS
i would make you an eyepatch. it would be fucking fabulous.
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HOLES IN YOUR RETINA OH MY GOD YOUR EYE IS SWISS CHEESE
WHEN WE GROW UP WE'LL WEAR EYE PATCHES TOGETHER
PS THAT IS THE MOST FABULOUS GIF EVER
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No, seriously. It's good that you figured it out and that it's treatable. I just got my glasses in around October, and I was so skeptical over them. Lo and behold, I'm so reliant and attached to them now that I forget and wear them into the shower sometimes. You already wear glasses so I'm sure it'll be an even easier transition for you. TL;DR: YAY GLASSES.
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I've had glasses since I was like 11 I think? And yeah I've totally worn them in the shower by accident a few times. Or I fall asleep and accidentally sleep on them and bend them.
YAY EYESIGHT FIXING :D
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