August 27, 2015

"What exactly do you see when you’re blind?

It varies — vision loss manifests in many different ways — but the variety of colors, the sharpness of shapes, and the details that most of us take for granted are usually out of reach.

“The central vision is sort of a blurred mish mosh of colors that is indistinguishable,” Marc Muszynski, a 29-year-old whose vision is slowly fading away, told BuzzFeed. “Around that, the rest of it is pretty bad too.”

Muszynski’s experience, or something like it, is one shared by many: Vision loss is one of the ten most common disabilities US adults face; it affects more than 3.4 million Americans over age 40.

Historically, there’s been little we can do for someone going blind. Slowly but surely, that’s starting to change."

To read more of Ellia Kincaid's article please visit: BusinessInsider.com.au