Post by bonhommearmonica on Dec 1, 2014 0:37:30 GMT -6
I am curious over the injury but it is rude of me to ask
As for the caps thing..
I have heard of it..
It was when I was fixing the setting on a womans cell She is in her eightys
It has something to do with the background screwing with her eyes.. I had set it big and she gripped.. (I told her to be honest with me so I could get it right.. Machines and life run on negative feedback..)
I turned the size back down and showed her how to do it..
Her boyfriend watched ma and had me show him as well..
I am not trying to get in the middle of an argument and would not believe it if I had not dealt with it..
(the old lady had had cataract surgery and has diabetes.. )
I am cruious over the diseases because I think technology can overcome them faster then medicine..
I'm NOT doubting the injury and its effects. I've just never come across it before. It's a bit startling to me.
I'm curious if capital letters at the beginning of a sentence are a bit of a blip of the problem or if it takes 2 capital letters or 3 or 4 to kick in. I'm just normally curious that way.
Also . . . is it 100% physiological in nature? And is it worse when tired or not? Is there any conditioned reflex component to it?
And, I'm trying to figure out how to compensate for it in my writing--which would mean a very major change, for me. I wonder how doing both, would work.
Airen, I've already told you that my difficulties with all cap blocks of text are an issue for me to read. I have not found a font on this site that actually makes it easier for me to discern so I have to sometimes rely heavily on the shape of words in able to discern meaning. Large blocks of all capitalized text eliminates the ability to do that.
You can't sit there and say that you're not taking a mocking tone when I explain that it is an actual visual disturbance issue and then, respond with--an entire sentence in all caps. For a site just getting going, this is a really poor way to respond to members.
Airen, I've already told you that my difficulties with all cap blocks of text are an issue for me to read. I have not found a font on this site that actually makes it easier for me to discern so I have to sometimes rely heavily on the shape of words in able to discern meaning. Large blocks of all capitalized text eliminates the ability to do that.
You can't sit there and say that you're not taking a mocking tone when I explain that it is an actual visual disturbance issue and then, respond with--an entire sentence in all caps. For a site just getting going, this is a really poor way to respond to members.
Good luck with your site. I'm out.
Also sent by email:
Dear WhiteAlice,
I'm greatly grieved that you still construe my responses as mocking when they were absolutely not at all.
I have earnestly tried from my first reply after reading about your malady--I have been trying to come up with a mutually satisfying solution.
The only way I could imagine to do that with you was to explore various options and at least understand better, if not come up with a solution that was mutually workable.
I know how to mock. There was 0.000000% mocking in each of my replies to you.
I'm hurt that you'd construe it otherwise.
I'm dismayed that you'd leave HH over such an issue.
I am sincerely and genuinely serious about coming up with a mutually satisfying solution.
It's a real challenge for me because, for me, ever since drafting class in High School, block printed all caps have been my preferred way to write with a pen as well as what I have used in all my classes on the blackboard so that students in the back could see the letters more clearly and easily without mistakes.
All caps, for me have been a very welcome tool for clarity and more accurate communication in personal as well as classroom communications in the usa as well as in China and Taiwan--for 45 years.
The Chinese have trouble with them initially because they don't study them as much--and for them, it's essentially a different alphabet. However, with 75 students in a class, the students in the rear of the class could not make out lower case letters well but could all caps.
So I have been trying hard to come up with alternative ways to use emphasis . . . or to use one line with caps for other people and one line without for you. That was just an option I was trying to check out with you.
I don't have your eyes. I don't know what will work or not work without asking you.
Obviously you can take offense where none was intended, if you wish.
But it is a sad thing that I've been trying hard to work out a mutually satisfying solution to your eye/nerve problem . . . and I get slapped down hard and harshly for trying to work out a solution.
I have no problems discussing what occurred with my vision. There are problems with the eyes and then there are problems with the visual cortex/occipital lobe itself. An issue in either can cause visual disturbance but the visual disturbances that get presented vary between the two. In my case, my eyes are in perfect health--no cataracts, no astigmatism, no nothing. It's my brain itself having difficulties in visual processing, all falling under the banner of "aura symptoms". Glasses or cataract surgery cannot fix what's wrong with my sight. Instead, it's anti-seizure meds for me.
It all began after a nasty fall where I ended up clocking both my head and neck. My vision began getting clouded with shadows, I'd see errant white or black flashes, streaks of light from objects, persistent after images, visual snow, ghosting of objects, bright bursts of light, episodes of scintillating scotoma, diplopia (also responsible for ghost objects), and the loss of my night vision. I can read better on computer screens than I can from a book because of monitors being backlit.
The biggest problem with reading overall has been the diplopia on both computer and paper. On my worst days, I just say screw it and stay in bed or do something that doesn't require reading anywhere at all.
They've used small letters in the image so you can see that it says "double vision" but imagine for a second if that is all capitalized letters. How easy would it be to figure out what those words were if all the peaks and dips of the words were gone?
I've made jokes elsewhere about my being disabled. Being able to read consistently is kind of mandatory in my field. Hopefully, once we get the depakote dosage right, it'll all be a thing of the past. I've had to be on depakote previously a long time ago due to a blend of seizure/migraine phenomena (migralepsy) that got triggered by pregnancy and a neural event. My neurologist explained that it's not uncommon to have issues renew after a shock or substantial change to the body.
Hopefully that settles that line of discourse. I never thought I'd have to defend my having issues with reading but hopefully this serves to remind people that not everybody is the same. My eyes are perfect. It's my brain that is fubar.
PS. I do have additional issues with reading posts here. I've got the font at maximum via scroll but it's still very tiny in the posts. It makes it very difficult to read even on the depakote here.
Last Edit: Dec 2, 2014 16:11:22 GMT -6 by whitealice