I don’t think anyone knows what its like to go blind until it happens. Then you know! Do you know there are different types of blindness? Type 1 is when you see nothing. Type 2, mine, is very different. See I’m not actually blind, my eyes are fine it is my brain that’s the issue. The connection from my brain into my eyes is not working and everyday its trying to re route itself and after 8 years its still not got there. My sight could come back at any point, after two weeks, ten years or never. It took a long time to come to terms with at first I thought my life was over but on the bright side I see colours all the time instead of faces, so needless to say I don’t judge people on their looks at all.
I can see fluorescent colours all day long, blobs of colours moving, pastle pinks purples blues greens, the whole spectrum. Its amazing, until I get a headache and I can’t turn it off. And sometimes I can see but I don’t realise I am seeing, it makes you question your reality. So yeah, don’t feel sorry for me. Today is a grey rainy day but to me there’s a colourful light show going on. I think if I was type one it would be a different story. I do a lot of art depicting what I can see and hopefully one day I can show it in a gallery.
