Stuck in the middle | Care4k9's Blog

Stuck in the middle Care4k9's Blog: Is she or isn’t she? It has to be one or the other, right? If you have some hearing, you must be able to function as a hearing person right? If you see some, you must function as a sighted person right? If you hear on the phone, you must hear fine. If you drive, you don’t have any vision challenges right? Life is black or white, there is no in-between. When you don’t see or hear me, you are just ignoring me, right? You are pretending.

No, not right.....

How can someone in the middle express and show that although they do a tremendous job in appearing normal, that doesn’t mean they do not have a challenge every single day in how to see or hear.

Think of when you catch a cold and how the input of sound just isn't happening. Hearing is difficult. You do hear some, but the clarity is gone. While sick, your vision will not have things in focus. Reading will be more difficult, but you can still see the words.

This becomes a challenge when you have to ask people to repeat or you have thick gummy mucous in your eyes. The world is just fuzzy. You can barely read a computer screen. Hearing anyone takes effort to understand. You just want to go back to bed. Even though during this cold with the changed vision and hearing, you can still see, and you can still hear, but clarity is lost, making it difficult to decipher the meaning of what you saw or what you heard.

This blog is about being stuck in-between. I can hear and see to function, but I am stuck between a world of people who see and hear, and people who are totally deaf plus totally blind. Stuck in the middle. Neither one. I don't see and hear well enough to be considered average or normal, but yet, I'm not severe enough to be labelled legally blind or profoundly deaf. I'm stuck in the middle, that zone that most people do not understand. It is abscure and difficult to explain. People understand black and white, sighted or blind, hearing or deaf. How can anyone understand partially sighted or someone with a hearing loss? That in-between that varies with each person, because there is no consistency. There is no distinction. They are in the zone of in-between.