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Hi.  I am Renee.  I was born with low vision.  I have no diagnosis. Most eye care specialists have no idea what caused my low vision.  It is what it is. I am legally blind.

​I was raised to “be normal.”  I attended neighborhood schools, graduated college, became a licensed elementary school teacher, and later on owned my own business.  I have a fantastic and supportive husband, two wonderful grown children, and five beautiful grandchildren.  I even have great in-laws!  So my life is full.  My vision, or lack of it, has not impeded my successes.

​I wore thick glasses since the age of three.  The eyeglasses help but they still leave me legally blind.  That means I cannot see better than 20/200 in my best corrected eye. Frankly, I do not come close to that.  I have never driven a car, but honestly, I never wanted to.  Besides the prescription eyeglasses, though, I have never had any assistive devices; I do not even know if such things existed when I was young.  I never saw what was written on the chalkboard in school, I struggled with reading material held close, I read street signs only if I were right next to them and they were hung lower than most.  Yet, I cook, and clean, and crochet, and do most things normal-sighted people do.

​It is only in the last however-many years that I learned about assistive devices. Dome magnifiers, lighted magnifiers, electronic magnifiers…who knew?  CCTV’s!  Accessible games, talking watches, and so much more.  Just within the last year, I have had mobility training which included how to use a white cane, and I have attended a 3-day workshop for adaptive living.  I even learned braille.

​Because I have had decades to adapt to the world around me, and mostly with the help of ordinary things, I am here to share.  I want to share what works for me, and learn what else is out there.

​Let the sharing begin!

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   –   Renee