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Losing My Vision

Stanford University

This article is about the author’s experience of losing her eyesight, but it is also, more broadly, a reflection on the nature of vision—what it is, how it can be maintained, and how unique inner visions can be valued. When the author began to lose her eyesight, and the outer world became no longer visible to her as it had been before, she began to create a counterposing internal vision so that her sense of her own value would remain intact. She thinks we are all to some extent blind, to some extent sighted, and each of us moves in a world of unique inner vision, an interior landscape that is composed of meanings, of sights and sounds, and feelings deeply held.

Key Words: disability • vision loss • blindness • memoir

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 2, 145-151 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800404273405


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