#diplopia

PT: Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD) Pride Flag

ID: a pale olive with two overlapping triangles. On the left is a black triangle, pointing towards the right. It's overlapped by a lighter gray triangle, coming from the right and pointing towars the left. In center are overlapping gray polygons. The lighter ones are semi-transparent, it makes the darker shapes beneath show through. /end ID

Grey is frequently associated with visual disabilities (link), and green on the disability pride flag represents sensory disabilities. The triangles overlapping = double vision reference.

Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD): dysfunction of binocular vision (put together by the brain with input from both eyes). BVD can cause blurred or double vision, photophobia, trouble focusing on small, faint, far away or up close objects and nyctalopia.

It often affects reading: needing to reread, skipping lines, losing track, trouble with long without punctuation. The eyes and brain have to overcompensate, resulting in head and neck tension, which can cause eye pain/strain and headaches.

Conflicting infos beteween sight and nonvisual sensory canals that sight supports can cause disorientation, vertigo, dizziness, motion sickness, trouble walking straight or frequent collisions, sensory overload, anxiety in crowds or large places.

BVD is pretty comon, though frequently missed, since it's vastly unknown. If you have ADHD and/or double vision when you zoom out, u should prob look into it.

Piece for @tagrasso c:

Obligatory fanart of the miracle chapter :D 💙

Art request #2. I don't mind drawing some Obito or Kakashi or both as long as I have some free time & inspiration 🤣 (But beware, my imagination is extremely annoying and I might draw not what you expect xD). So yeah, I know this story!! 🔥 OK -- this scene made me actually laugh:

(Where's obkk? . . . umm . . . there. . .)

New myasthenia and chronic illness themed art for Valentine's Day! I've made black and white background versions for each because I wasn't sure which one most preferred. Feel free to let me know in the comments!

I hope you like it 🖤

Hello! :D

Yeah, the info out there for coping with diplopia is extremelyyy lacking, unfortunately.

I'm currently trying prism glasses right now to see if they will help my eyes align better but so far, despite paying $1400CAD, it's done nothing and I'm starting to wonder if prism glasses are a scam tbh sO I don't personally recommend those.

Beyond that, a few tricks I use are:

-Screen readers and visually described media and movies -Closing the eye I have the least vision in and brief looking through the one I have the most vision in, to cut down on how much double I'm seeing -Using liquid level indicator on glasses and cups so they don't overfill -Using a mobility scooter for long distance trips that are too far to walk, since I can't drive due to my vision

and this one I'll put separately because it relates to safety:

when I'm walking down the stairs I ALWAYS use the handrail and go slow; the back of my heel connects with the back of the stair so I know my foot isn't dangling over the ledge, and then I exaggerate how much I pick up my feet and then once again aim for feeling the back of the next step below me, repeat.

Using your voice is also important in these situations. I'm a quite person so it's hard but, my safety has to come first. Practice saying things like

"I can't see, please don't push me!" or "Do not push me!"

for crowded stairways with impatient ppl, those scenarios are the most dangerous.