I found many partially sighted students felt was dismissed as a factor in their visual experiences.
I would definitely agree with that. All this "can you see X/do Y?" when they should be asking, honestly, questions more like PIP: can you do this reliably, repeatedly, as often as necessary. These are the factors that nystagmus effects, for me. And I'm sure you know how little most people pay attention to variability and context in disability.
And yeah, I had such good luck with my disability advisor and DSA assessor. They seemed to realize what patterns I might fit I to but asked me about everything than assuming. It was so weird/amazing.
Cowbag then proceeded to YELL at me for not being able to move my eyes to look at little red lights
Oh yeah, I have lots of experience of this too: how dare you not do this thing the way everybody does it automatically! Well, if it's automatic I can't be failing to do it on purpose? But if I said that I was just misbehaving even more.
playing "what do you see? what can I see?"
It was because of this that I leased other people don't see digital clock displays wiggling around when they look at them in a dark room. That kind of problem when looking at my bedside alarm clock was the first time I actually noticed my nystagmus (as I said, it isn't usually apparent to me) as a kid, but of course I didn't know that's what it was. Lit-up clocks like that in the dark, and those signs where lit-up letters scroll slowly along, are still the only times I notice the nystagmus (unless I'm really exhausted, then nothing stays still).
info provision IS something many of them do well.
I think we ended up using info from the RNIB's website for my PIP application, since no other fucker had ever told me anything about my eyes. :) I'm glad they were helpful to you too; I'd like to say that I can't believe people would expect you'd confuse blind and deaf but...actually I can totally believe that. But it's abled people who confuse the two, they talk loudly and slowly at me.
BSLish word order Topic-Comment
This is something I've learned a tiny bit about in one of my linguistics courses this semester. I still only know a miniscule amount about BSL grammar but I find it really interesting. I still want to take that as my language next year; I should see if I can find someone to talk to about this in the new year, while there's some time to figure out if it'll work or not.
I love that you got a pocket watch
I never would've thought of such a thing but there was a Christmas market stall selling them on long chains and I thought it was such a great idea. Here's a couple of pictures of it; it's only little so not cumbersome to wear and works easily for me as something I can read.
The bit about how long it takes JAWS to read something compared to how long a sighted person is really interesting. I think a lot of people would benefit from a demonstration like this, and far too people get the opportunity.
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I would definitely agree with that. All this "can you see X/do Y?" when they should be asking, honestly, questions more like PIP: can you do this reliably, repeatedly, as often as necessary. These are the factors that nystagmus effects, for me. And I'm sure you know how little most people pay attention to variability and context in disability.
And yeah, I had such good luck with my disability advisor and DSA assessor. They seemed to realize what patterns I might fit I to but asked me about everything than assuming. It was so weird/amazing.
Cowbag then proceeded to YELL at me for not being able to move my eyes to look at little red lights
Oh yeah, I have lots of experience of this too: how dare you not do this thing the way everybody does it automatically! Well, if it's automatic I can't be failing to do it on purpose? But if I said that I was just misbehaving even more.
playing "what do you see? what can I see?"
It was because of this that I leased other people don't see digital clock displays wiggling around when they look at them in a dark room. That kind of problem when looking at my bedside alarm clock was the first time I actually noticed my nystagmus (as I said, it isn't usually apparent to me) as a kid, but of course I didn't know that's what it was. Lit-up clocks like that in the dark, and those signs where lit-up letters scroll slowly along, are still the only times I notice the nystagmus (unless I'm really exhausted, then nothing stays still).
info provision IS something many of them do well.
I think we ended up using info from the RNIB's website for my PIP application, since no other fucker had ever told me anything about my eyes. :) I'm glad they were helpful to you too; I'd like to say that I can't believe people would expect you'd confuse blind and deaf but...actually I can totally believe that. But it's abled people who confuse the two, they talk loudly and slowly at me.
BSLish word order Topic-Comment
This is something I've learned a tiny bit about in one of my linguistics courses this semester. I still only know a miniscule amount about BSL grammar but I find it really interesting. I still want to take that as my language next year; I should see if I can find someone to talk to about this in the new year, while there's some time to figure out if it'll work or not.
I love that you got a pocket watch
I never would've thought of such a thing but there was a Christmas market stall selling them on long chains and I thought it was such a great idea. Here's a couple of pictures of it; it's only little so not cumbersome to wear and works easily for me as something I can read.
The bit about how long it takes JAWS to read something compared to how long a sighted person is really interesting. I think a lot of people would benefit from a demonstration like this, and far too people get the opportunity.