So yeah I really am a mutant. How cool is that? But really cataracts, night blindness and tunnel vision as a superpower? Not so much. 130,000 pages of information and duplication, not to mention competing organizations. Yikes! So first a word about blindness in general.

Functional blindness means you have no vision at all. Legally blind means you have less than 20/200 corrected and/or less than 20 degrees peripheral vision which is my case. After that is low vision/high maintnance depending on being able to drive. Or as I refer to it misdemeanor and felony illegal blindness.

There are many causes and levels of blindness that affect people in different ways ranging from complete blindness at birth, progressive eye diseases that develope over time, to age related conditions.These are mostly back of the eye problems and are the ones that lead to total blindness. Then there is the normal run of the mill front of the eye problems such as near sighted, far sighted, cross eyes, cataracts and astigmatism which can mostly be fixed. Mostly. But when THEY screw up and along with the other problems it is really messed up. And I have the cossed eyes to prove it. OK. So anyways these are my tips and cheats.

My first and most signicant cheat was discovering headlights. Total game changer. This was in the early 1980s just as my vision was noticably starting to deteriorate with loss of peripheral vision and night blindness. With great power however comes great responsibilty so be careful not to blind others.

Learn to code. Really. You can keep coding long past the point that you can do other things.

In Windows reduce your resolution. This makes things bigger and less real estate to get lost in. Move the taskbar from bottom to top. In mouse settings increase pointer size, turn on mouse trails, and pointer finder. Now replace your stupid mouse with a trackball that has forward and back buttons and a scrollwheel. Yes less is more. Less to get lost in and more to optismise.

Medicle heresy

Disclaimer! I am not a medical doctor. I am a mad sciencist. Anything I say should be considered with great skeptism.

Many of the webpages are copies or duplicates, there are conflicting results, and there are very few that have real life experience with this condition. In the grand scheme of things these are merely petty anoyances. There are real quality of life issues that do not get much discussion. The anorexia diet and conflicts with conventional wisdom for cataract surgery.

The anorexia diet. Really, it is not a joke.