Visual Impairments

I started with the mask that makes you almost completely blind and I started it right away to get that experience while I was walking down the hill back to the Clarke building. Well while I was walking through the Hinckley building the classes just got out so there were a lot of students walking around. It was really hard to be able to see them and I had to walk down the stairs. I was going really slow because I couldn't see the people around me I could just see the stairs right in front of me. I knocked into a couple of people while I did this. Then when I got down to the Clarke someone came around the corner but I didn't see them at first so it really scared me. I did get frustrated a lot while I was wearing this mask because I just had to directly look at someone to talk and I couldn't really try to work on homework while I talked and I can usually do that so I didn't get much done. Then after the hour I switched to the next mask and it just covered the right eye but it was still really weird and it was hard to look at the computer screen for to long or my other eye that I could see with would get blurry so everything was blurry and then if someone was on my right side I had to turn my head to talk to them and then after the hour I switched to the one where it blocks the left eye and once again it was just frustrating because I had to turn my head to look at people to be able to talk to them. This experience has been eye opening to me because I never stopped to think about how it would be to not be able to see around me and be able to see everything.