The link did not seem to work.
It seems there are only 17 people on this listserve, so I hope you will
share your story with others.
I'd like to correspond with you if you will send your e-mail.
julie@... (lenses wearer)

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From: "hopefordyslexia" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
To: <glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:11 PM
Subject: [Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses'] See some ways that light
sensitivity affects vision


> For many years now, I have struggled to explain some of the ways
> damage from a head injury has distorted my vision, but I have always
> felt that words cannot convey the picture as clearly as I would
> like, so I have now put together some photos for our photo album to
> literally show what the world looks like with some of these vision
> problems.
> Nine years ago, as a result of a head injury, I started having
> horrible vision and health problems. I was diagnosed with monocular
> and binocular diplopia. In everyday terms, that means double vision
> in each eye and two eyes that refuse to work together. In addition
> to that, I lost the ability to focus my eyes.
> The best doctors, neurologists, opthamologists and optometrists
> all agreed that the damage was permanent and that NOTHING could be
> done to help restore my vision, except progressive prescription
> lenses, and even that would leave 90% of my vision problems
> uncorrected. Even with glasses, my vision was impossibly messed
> up. My brain simply couldn't coordinate the vision process
> anymore. With my eyes wandering off in their own directions, my
> brain tried to make sense of it all by jumping wildly between the
> view from both eyes when they were working together to a distorted
> blended view from both wandering eyes or it simply relied on the
> input from my left eye or right eye or nothing at all. What a
> headache that was--literally it caused a permanent migraine.
> After about 4 years of "living" with this, the literacy librarian
> at our local library suggested that I contact the Irlen Institute.
> My doctors were completely against the idea, but I refused to let
> them keep me from getting the help I needed. Thank God I did because
> with Irlen filters, I CAN FINALLY SEE NORMALLY AGAIN!!!
> With all of the years that I have struggled to explain the
> vision problems I have had, I have found that words alone fail to
> adequately convey the nature and scope of the problems I lived with
> so I have finally found a way to put together some pictures so
> people can see what I mean, instead of just having to create a
> mental picture from my words.
> I have uploaded the pictures to the group photo album. I am
> really hoping that they will be helpful to others.
> They are best viewed in the slide show which sort of animates
> them so you can see the effect all "in action". The first 7 pictures
> in the slide show show the effect of double double vision on print
> and the 8th picture shows the distortions it can cause even with
> faces. (Yes, I picked Pablo Picasso as my model because I couldn't
> help wondering if some of his "impressionistic" style was the result
> of Picasso painting the world just as he REALLY saw it.)
> I hope my illustrations will inspire some of you to find a way to
> visually demonstrate how light sensitivity affects your vision and
> share it with us by posting your pictures in the group photo album.
> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/glimmercoloredfilterglasses/slid
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