It’s crazy how my eye disease can affect both my sight of a paper in front of me and my sight of the future. When I am looking into my future, sometimes I see blurry spots just like when I forget to...
Olivia
About Olivia
My name is Olivia Hoffman. I am a seventeen year old girl from Salem, Ohio. My life revolves around school and dance. When I’m not at the studio or doing homework, I’m usually reading a new book. When I have time, I like to experiment in the kitchen with some baking recipes. All vegan, of course, because I am an extreme environmentalist. I have some struggles with anxiety, so I don’t spend a lot of time socializing, but that leaves more time for me to focus on my goals. I hope to become a pediatric psychiatrist someday and participate in Doctors Without Borders. My goals may change in the future, but I will always work hard to achieve my goals, no matter my vision loss.
When I was four I was diagnosed with LCA-CRB1 and my vision has been slowly decreasing since then. I am legally blind in my left eye but can still manage fairly well with my current vision abilities.
Seeing You Interview: Jacob Billingsley
Hey Clearly Seeing Blind readers! There is a new segment coming to the blog. I am going to interview kids from the Curing Retinal Blandness Foundation about their experiences with their eye disease....
Explaining My Eye Disease
It’s a complicated thing, an eye disease. Most things in life are complicated, at least those worth knowing. Things like who we are, human behaviors, and how the world around us works can’t be...
Back to School
Today I went back to school. It was my first day as a junior in the 2022-2023 school year at Salem High School. Exciting, right? Yeah, no. Not even close. Not to sound negative, but I despise high...
Counting Stairs
There are thirteen stairs in both staircases in my house. There are sixteen stairs in the staircase going down to my dance studio. In any given staircase at my high school, there is either 5, 6, 7,...
Annoying Kindnesses
It’s always nice to find a helping hand, right? The people surrounding you that are aware of your vision impairment and are willing to be of aid in challenging moments. It’s important that we are...
Eye on the Finish Line
This blog post goes out as a message to all the CRBF families about the foundation's new Eye on the Finish Line campaign, but everyone else keep reading because you need to hear this too. ...
A Wide Spectrum
Since I have been writing my blog, I have come to realize something. Some people have given me feedback on my blog posts and I have been noticing other things on social media, but they have...
My Mini Success Story
[WARNING: There is minor bragging in the following blog post.] Great news! This past month I got my score back from the AP exam I took this year. It turns out that I got . . . a 5! Now, I am going...