In the beginning right after the stroke I found it difficult to describe what the world looked like out of my eyes. People could not exactly understand my visual reality from the verbal descriptions of my visual field. Once I could see and read better, I started looking online for pictures that would approximate what my vision was like after the stroke.
I eventually came across a website, Forkintheroad.com, that makes goggles simulating different types of visual impairment. The goggles are meant to be an educational tool for helping health care, rehabilitation and education professionals, care providers, and friends and family better understand some of the abilities and limitations brought on by visual defects.
The picture above is a simulation of what the experience of Right Homonymous Hemianopsia is like. The visual field is blurry on the right side, some objects are partially visible through the blurriness and some are not at all. My hemianopsia was slightly different in that I could see the lower areas of the right side. However, when I looked at people's faces or at the page of a book, the right side was blurry just like this picture shows.
The Fork in The Road website offers goggles and pictures for many different types of visual problems. (Click here to link to the website).
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