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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Dark, yes I know a little about depression, and I never intended that my advice should be used immediately, though I can definitely see how it could have appeared that way.From what both Shrike and Caccio72 seem to be saying, perhaps they need to speak

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Hi Caccio. Again I'm really sorry this is happening. Eye surgery is always traumatic since the eyes are so sensitive,  having an actual eye removed is even more so. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=320215#p3

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well yes...that's exactly what I am so scared of, that will make my worst fears come true...if you guys could only imagine, how fanatically I was protecting my only one, existing and functioning eye, how "abnormally" I kept guarding it a

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well yes...that's exactly what I am so scared of, that will make my worst fears come true...if you guys could only imagine, how fanatically I was protecting my only one functioning eye, how "abnormally" I kept guarding it all my lif

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Thanks again for all the empathy, encouragement, mental support, advices, and hints!However, it seems You guys keep missing my actual, most severe problem, my current darkest fear, and the information I seek about it.So this time I shall really try to

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Caccio wrote:Will my head remain totally visionless, meaning without ANY sense of vision, like my hands or legs are? Actually Caccio  is an accurate description of what I can see through my right eye, which is the one that hand the haemorrhidge. it

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Thanks again for all the empathy, encouragement, mental support, advices, and hints!However, it seems You guys keep missing my actual, most severe problem, my current darkest fear, and the information I seek about it.So this time I shall really try to

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! this post is getting off the main topic posted by Caccio,sorry for turning the subject about myself,  thanks a lot for the positive suggestions, and I really hope Caccio manages to conquer his fears relating his possible eyeball removal.I do believe this

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! @Tjt, one of the most critical problems with depression is that  it interferes with a person's logic since it is essentially irrational.For example, a person withh depression cannot say "well someone else has bene able to do x so I will be ab

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! @Tjt, one of the most critical problems with depression is that  interferes with a person's logic since it is essentially irrational.For example, a person with  cannot say "well someone else has bene able to do x so I will be able to do x"

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Shrike, I completely agree with you that blindness is a completely different way of experiencing the world, especially for people who relied on their vision when they had it. It is because of this inability to have sight when one wants it that causes

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Shrike, I completely agree with you that blindness is a completely different way of experiencing the world, especially for people who relied on their vision when they had it. It is because of this inability to have sight when one wants it that causes

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Shrike, I completely agree with you that blindness is a completely different way of experiencing the world, especially for people who relied on their vision when they had it. It is because of this inability to have sight when one wants it that causes

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! @Shrike, depression isn't fun. One thing I've done myself in the past though is to simply realize! I have depression and so regard my own judgements about myself with suspicion. If  find myself saying "x is  crap because I did it&quo

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this discussion  is getting a wee bit too close to the subject of my thesis for me to want to embark upon it too far when I'm not actually working, but I will point out Shrike that logically the fact that you know blind people from birth pro

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I know it's easy for me to right this, but... Cultivate faith in yourself. The world will try to break this down but all you can do is realize that you are worth it, and good enough, and those emotional responses  don't understand who you

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! when you put it like that I see what you mean,  it seems like as in  all able bodied people its more of an individual aspect to it rather than the disability.so its more based on each person dealing with sight loss in there own way,  all I can say is the

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this discussion  is getting a wee bit too close to the subject of my thesis for me to want to embark upon it too far when I'm not actually working, but I will point out Shrike that logically the fact that you know blind people from birth pro

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! hi TJ,my comments regarding people who were blind from birth was based on the people I know as friends, so although its quite a few people I guess I am still generalising.but everyone of them agrees with me in the sense that it must be much more

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Shrike, I disagree with what you have said when you describe people who have been blind since birth as "more fulfilled" and "more independent" in the sense that they are able to have a full-time job and travel around by themselve

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! @Caccio,  I understand what you mean about losing a part of yourself now, isnce it seemed from your first post you were using the English (and to an extent American), _expression_ where "dummy" is equated with idiocy.To answer your question

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Hi @Caccio72,My name is Noah Carver. I'm 13 years old, and am going into eighth grade. I've always been blind, due to a genetic condition known as Leber's Congenital Amaurosis. This condition' has left me totally blind, save for li

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well for me having been born premature with all the stuff that went on in the 80s, my eye condition was because of to much oxygen aparently its probably more complex than I am putting it.But if I was born today what happened to me would not happen well a

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Oh yes! The medical profession, don't you just love them? It's always this germ, or that virus, or those genes, or just bad luck. It's never their incompetence, carelessness, stupidity, greed, or just plain old not giving a shit, as l

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Yes, the colors I can still remember, and hopefully will remember them till the end of my life...actually dreams are the most pleasent part of my life now, since in my dreams I can always still see, despite being subsequently aware of my vision loss

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Yes, the colors I can still remember, and hopefully will remember them till the end of my life...actually dreams are the most pleasent part of my life now, since in my dreams I can always still see, despite being subsequently aware of my vision loss

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Many thanks for your empathy and moral support Shrike!You see, it's not blindness itself which makes me depressed, I already learned, actually forced myself to accept it, and "cope with it" in a way.What I fear is far worse, far more sca

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! That sounds like a birth defect Catchio, the fact that you got a cancer later on makes me think that your mother may have been exposed to a toxin of some kind when she was pregnant with you.If she wasn't drinking, their are still allot of other t

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I don't know about shocking but having to lose parts of your body even though they don't function is always best avoided. Besides being depressing, removing any part of the body, even if it is replaced with a prosthetic, creates a way for in

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Many thanks for your empathy and moral support Shrike!You see, it's not blindness itself which makes me depressed, I already learned, actually forced myself to accept it, and "cope with it" in a way.What I fear is far worse, far more sca

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Many thanks for your empathy and moral support Shrike!You see, it's not blindness itself which makes me depressed, I already learned, actually forced myself to accept it, and "cope with it" in a way.What I fear is far worse, far more sca

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! hi Caccio,It seems like you and I have a lot in common,  not only in the taste of audio games but our age and we both started life with sight.I have got RP and at this moment I can  only determine light and dark.people who have been blind from birth in

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Of course I have to undergo several regular controls and examinations, (3 or 4 times in a year, it depends), examinations like the so called "ultrasound" method, and of course roentgen rays, in order to check for eventual further malicious tra

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I'm really sorry to hear this. I hope you manage to have a happy life, even without your eyes. At least you'll be able to make some (not so) good jokes, like telling people your real eyes were eaten by spiders, or asking them for help b

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Of course I have to undergo several regular controls and examinations, (3 or 4 times in a year, it depends), examinations like the so called "ultrasound" method, and of course roentgen rays, in order to check for eventual further malicious tra

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Of course I have to undergo several regular examinations and tests, (3 or 4 times in a year, it depends), examinations like the so called "ultrasound" method, and of course roentgen rays, in order to check for eventual further malicious transm

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! [[wow]]! This is a coincidence. I recently started reading TFIOS, also known as the Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Isaac had also dealt with having to lose another eyeball and in this case, becoming totally blind.Are you currently going under any

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this is something I always wanted to ask those of You, who are without both vision and existing eyeballs, so those wearing prothesys in both of their eyeholes: Do you "see", meaning sense at least the darkness around you, like in the

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this is something I always wanted to ask those of You, who are without both vision and existing eyeballs: Do you "see", meaning sense at least the darkness around you, like in the case of my right, still existing eyeball, or you don&#x

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this is something I always wanted to ask those of You, who are without both vision and existing eyeballs: Do you "see", meaning sense at least the darkness around you, like in the case of my right, still existing eyeball, or you don&#x

Re: A shocking and depressing news!

Re: A shocking and depressing news! Well this is something I always wanted to ask those of You, who are without both vision and existing eyeballs: Do you "see", meaning sense at least the darkness around you, like in the case of my right, still existing eyeball, or you don&#x

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I actually fear neither the physical pain, nor the surgery process, after all I have been through quite many of those by now.What I fear is its outcome.For those, who have got their other, second eyeball, totally regardless if sighted or not, (and the

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I did not have vision but it is verry sad. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=319724#p319724 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I actually fear neither the physical pain, nor the surgery process, after all I have been through quite many of those by now.What I fear is its outcome.For those, who have got their other, second eyeball, totally regardless if sighted or not, (and the

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I've always felt allot worse for people that went nearly or totally blind in later life, especially when allot of surgery was involved,I lost all of my site when I was about 5 I think, before that one eye was way worse than the other. I also had a t

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Caccio72,I feel sad that you probably will have to go through with that ordeal.If you think positively about the future, you could be a candidate for electronic eyes where they replace your eyes with electronic ones that are connected to chips the put in

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Ah fuck this, excuse my french at that point. I am so sorry to hear that man, hang in there, you will do it.Greetings moritz. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=319629#p319629

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Thanks for all the moral support guys, and it seems I used an inaccurate _expression_, (again), which made Dark misunderstand that certain part of my post:Namely, it is by far not the artificial eye which I fear, nor my physical appearence, after all I

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Thanks for all the moral support guys, and it seems I used an inaccurate _expression_, (again), which made Dark misunderstand that certain part of my post:Namely, it is by far not the artificial eye which I fear, nor my physical appearence, after all I

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! I think he was referring to "dummy" as in a doll.  Like a ventriloquist dummy for example.Caccio, I'm sorry to hear about this situation.  URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Your are not a dumb person man. I know I'm loosing my vision its just a matter of when it finely all goes away. Hang in there and god bless. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=319622#p3

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! @caccio I'm really sorry to hear this. I'm definitely familiar enough with eye surgery to know how horrible it is to go through, and something so drastic is particularly nasty, especially with all the losses of vision you've already expe

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Oof. that's rough. hang in there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=319609#p319609 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabah

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Re: A shocking and depressing news! Shit brah, that sucks.I'm no good at this,but hope you feel better soon,and deal with it. ahem. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=319607#p319607 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

A shocking and depressing news!

A shocking and depressing news! Greetings to all fellow VIP gamers!Unfortunately, to all those of You who might care, I have to announce a catastrophic, extremely shocking news, a true disaster, which made me severely depressed!Some of You may know by now, that I totally lost my vision

A shocking and depressing news!

A shocking and depressing news! Greetings to all fellow VIP gamers!Unfortunately, to all those of You who might care, I have to announce a catastrophic, extremely shocking news, a true disaster, which made me severely depressed!Some of You may know by now, that I totally lost my vision

A shocking and depressing news!

A shocking and depressing news! Greetings to all fellow VIP gamers!Unfortunately, to all those of You who might care, I have to announce a catastrophic, extremely shocking news, a true disaster, which made me severely depressed!Some of You may know by now, that I totally lost my vision