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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would she balk at an [i]independent [/i]living facility? She also needs OT to help her figure out how to do things without vision. [/quote] Maybe not?! I had a check-in call for her today and she asked a random question about an activity near my house and said “maybe I could do that if I lived there.” The weather is especially bad where she is today and it seems to be nibbling away at her resolve. Unfortunately she refuses OT and other services for low vision because she sees them as for people who have “actual” low vision and not “people like me”. I think she is working through her own long-held prejudices about disabilities, hired help, etc. in real-time and it’s a struggle. Unfortunately stories about people who have low or no vision and are living independently are lost on her because she is trying to keep up a facade of being fully sighted for many, many years while hiding her vision loss from family and friends.[/quote]
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