When I was in elementary school, I had a friend named June. She lived on the next block over from me, but we still played a lot...after all, the next block over wasn't far at all. We would go to the park and play the same gave each time, it was about two sisters named crystal and clear. One sister was blind and the other sister wasn't.(I think this is how we played my disability into our playing)
I can't remember now why we started playing this pretend game, but I do remember the reasons for the names. They were crystal and clear because sometimes crystals were cloudy and you couldn't see through them..just like how I explained my eyes, I just couldn't see through them very well.(I believe my vision at this time was 20/200)
It's been 10 years since we played this game, and in these 10 years I've lost touch with her, but I remember this game so vividly, her dog was my seeing eye dog for the game, and we pretended everything was braille (I had been learning braille at this time) and my disability was big in this game.
In the time since we have played this game, so much has changed with my life, my eyes, and everything else, and I look back at this game and find it funny that my young self was trying to prepare my future self for what might not just be a game...because I see the world from cloudy crystal eyes, and need to start looking at not using my eyes...because after all, the world may not always be CRYSTAL CLEAR.
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