The visual impairment was definitely the a difficult simulation for me, not only did I get a horrible headache but also I felt like I couldn't see more than half of what was going on around me. There was one point where I was sitting next to someone and if she had gotten up to leave I would not have noticed because I couldn't see her at all. Things like that happened in many situations, for example talking to a group was very difficult because I would have to completely turn my body to talk to them if I even knew they were there. The masks made it much harder to focus in class too, because my thinking was often that I can't see the board or what is going on so why should I bother trying to understand. I felt that the visual simulation hurt me in social aspects as well as in academic aspects which were different than how I felt about the wheelchair experience. During my SPED 380 class we were playing a game show type game and it was surprisingly difficult for me to participate and to fell apart of the class because I had trouble seeing what was going on.
This simulation really helped me to understand how difficult it is to be visually impairing huge effect that it had on my life. While I know that I don't completely understand what it is like to be visually impaired I feel like I have a further understanding about some of the struggles from the four hours that I spent wearing the masks.
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