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How to accept progressive disability

I am losing my vision gradually and I keep bumping into things and dropping stuff, but I cannot bring myself to use a white cane because that would make it real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tools that would provide freedom become symbols of loss, creating a prison of denial that increases both physical danger and psychological suffering.

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