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“You know, it was whenI realized that I had to learn a new way, a different way of functioning that I could call that agency. Now, years later, I know I must use my bubble lens and my closed-circuit television if I want to read. When the doctor first pulled those things of of the drawer, I almost died. I was only 16 and couldn’t bear the thought of showing everyone I was different. For me it slowly became a self-discovery. It’s not that I’m so different, only the way I see is different. Now I can do things, I just do them differently.”

(Rebeca quoted by Donna L. Emerson, LCSW in “Learning to Adjust to Impaired Vision, page 384)