[Blindtlk] Eye Pressing

[Kelby Carlson]

I almost always do it when I'm alone, too (or think that no one 
is there.) I used to do it almost all the time and have had to 
work a lot to stop doing it.  It doesn't draw anything like the 
comments it used to, though, which I take as a pretty good sign.

Kelby



 ----- Original Message -----
From: Desiree Oudinot <turtlepower17 at gmail.com
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:30 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Eye Pressing

I have LCA as well, and I'll admit I've struggled with this.  I 
do find
that I do it most often when I'm either tired or stressed.  
Luckily,
I've managed to control it so that I only do it when I'm alone.  
I
don't know of any way to completely eradicate this habit.  Maybe 
it's
one of those things that gradually diminishes with age.  When I 
was a
kid, I did it much more frequently than I do now.  I'm 23 now, so
maybe, the older you get, the less of a need you feel to do it?

On 5/17/13, Kelby Carlson <kelbycarlson at gmail.com> wrote:
 Okay, everybody.  It's time for me to admit an embarrassing
 confession, and to ask an equally embarrassing confession.  I
 have struggled with the habit of eye pressing or poking since I
 was just a baby, and it's still an issue to this day.  I'm in
 college and would really like to get it cleared for good.  It's
 much better than when I was little (back then it would interfere
 with things socially, now it's intermitent and rarely commented
 on.) I have LCA, and I have heard some other people with that
 particular genetic condition say it is also a problem.  Does
 anyone have any strategies to recommend for ridding myself of
 what remains of this admittedly annoying habit?

 Kelby S.  Carlson

 Vanderbilt University


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