Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@55
I hate this kind of thinking. If you get your vision back you're whoever you are now with whatever capabilities you currently have, the same likes, dislikes, personality, etc. Vision doesn't change that. But it does let you do tons more. Me plus vision is still me, except now I can drive a car, read math textbooks, travel the world, do who knows what else. Never have to worry about if an app is accessible again. Play any sighted videogame.
I don't wake up every morning and go "man I still don't have vision today". Few of us do. But it'd be really nice. I'm not differently gifted. Neither are you. We're versions of ourselves that are currently without vision. That doesn't make us less capable. But if we did have vision, we'd all instantly become incredibly more capable. It wouldn't solve our problems. But it goes a long way.
It surprises me how few people get this, and I have a great deal of trouble seeing "vision is part of your identity" as anything but "I can't come to terms with being less capable than someone else, so I'll relabel it identity instead of disability".
Maybe the cure will be expensive. Maybe the cure will have side effects. Maybe the cure will be "you get vision but you die in 1 year". But all of those hypotheticals aren't likely, and without them there's literally no rational reason to sit here and go "I'll pass on that cure, thanks".
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