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Eilidh
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24 Sep 2009, 3:15 pm

:oops: Just saying hi. Um, are there any other visually impaired people here?
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24 Sep 2009, 3:34 pm

Eilidh wrote:

:oops: Just saying hi. Um, are there any other visually impaired people here?
Hugs!
~Eilidh

Actually, I know of one other. But I will let her answer for herself.

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24 Sep 2009, 4:56 pm

To WrongPlanet!! !

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24 Sep 2009, 5:02 pm

Welcome to WP!

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24 Sep 2009, 5:58 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

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24 Sep 2009, 8:56 pm

Eilidh wrote:

:oops: Just saying hi. Um, are there any other visually impaired people here?
Hugs!
~Eilidh

"Hello" back to you!

I have retinal membranes slowly clouding and "wrinkling" my vision -- flag poles look like squiggly lines -- and that really messes with my "visual thinking". Somehow, the clarity of my mental focus is directly proportional to the clarity of my vision.

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25 Sep 2009, 8:09 am

leejosepho wrote:

I have retinal membranes slowly clouding and "wrinkling" my vision -- flag poles look like squiggly lines -- and that really messes with my "visual thinking". Somehow, the clarity of my mental focus is directly proportional to the clarity of my vision.

Welcome to WP!

This is interesting. My visual thinking processes separately from my visual sense. But then I don't learn very well visually any way. I can easily create image in my imagination, but putting them there from what I see, often doesn't work very well. I'm a kinesthetic learner who thinks kinesthetically and visually. But since my visual thinking has always been detached from my sense of vision, I don't know if you can learn to detach yours.

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25 Sep 2009, 12:06 pm

Hello, and welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet neighborhood, Eilidh.

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25 Sep 2009, 8:24 pm

willmark wrote:

leejosepho wrote:

This is interesting. My visual thinking processes separately from my visual sense ...

So does mine, actually, and I often close my eyes to concentrate without being distracted, and even during some conversations (like progress reports).

willmark wrote:

But then I don't learn very well visually any way. I can easily create image in my imagination, but putting them there from what I see, often doesn't work very well.

I work as a mechanical fabricator. When beginning a new project, I first have to see it in my mind before trying to put it on paper, and then I sometimes have to be careful to not let my own sketches distract me later on. But after I actually begin putting something together, I often sit and stare at a given part (or at the overall) of the project while doing some troubleshooting and further development in the visual part of my mind.

willmark wrote:

I'm a kinesthetic learner who thinks kinesthetically and visually. But since my visual thinking has always been detached from my sense of vision, I don't know if you can learn to detach yours.

Until just now, I had assumed that would not be possible ... but you have just given me a bit of hope!

I sincerely thank you.

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25 Sep 2009, 8:45 pm

Please forgive me, Eilidh. I did not mean to hijack your introduction.

Are you finding your way around?

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Eilidh
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28 Sep 2009, 9:59 am

leejosepho wrote:

Please forgive me, Eilidh. I did not mean to hijack your introduction.

Are you finding your way around?

It's quite All right, it happens!
Hugs!
~Eilidh

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