06/18/2026
Experiencing partial blindness because of MS is something I never could have imagined before it happened to me.
When people think about blindness, they usually imagine seeing absolutely nothing. That’s what I imagined too. But for me, it’s very different.
If something is too far away and there are letters on it, they start to “melt” and disappear. They’re just gone. I can still see outlines of objects quite well, and I can see colors normally too, but the image itself looks strange and distorted.
On top of that, I have eye floaters constantly raining down in my vision, creating gray patches across what I see. So technically I can see, but everything looks weird and unstable.
Some days are better than others. Some days I’m too scared to move around much because I’m afraid I might hurt myself. Other days it almost feels close to normal again. It’s never linear. It always depends on how my body is doing.
What made it even worse was that doctors didn’t believe me. I was gaslit and dismissed, and that experience made me feel incredibly lonely and hopeless. At that time, I genuinely started questioning whether life was even worth living anymore, because I felt so misunderstood and so alone. If doctors couldn’t help me, then who could?
Eventually, another doctor explained what was actually happening: it wasn’t my eyes. It was my brain interrupting the visual signal because of MS.
Hearing that gave me relief. It didn’t fix the problem, but it gave me answers. And that was what I needed most, understanding what was happening to me.
Now I live day by day with partial blindness. And even today, I’m still sad about the way I was treated and how I was dismissed. No one deserves to go through that.
by brittneytalks
