I was embarrassed to wear the mask to class, but it worked out with my schedule that I only had to wear it to one of my classes, walking back to my apartment, doing homework, and fixing lunch.
During class, there were a few girls who had done the project before so they knew exactly what I was doing. In the class the teacher just presented a powerpoint, on a few of the slides there was so much writing on the slides that I didn't even bother following along because it was difficult to keep up and not get frustrated. My head hurt a lot after class was finished.
I thought doing homework with the mask on was going to be the easy part because I didn't have to see anyone- but I was so wrong! Reading textbooks made homework take so much longer, for my religion homework luckily I was able to listen to the scriptures and follow a long a little bit more than my other textbooks. The audio made all the difference in understanding what I was actually reading. Fixing lunch and eating lunch was easy enough, I still did not like how dark and restricted I felt, but the longer I wore the mask the more accustom my eyes became to the lack of light. It bothered me not to have peripheral vision, I had to turn my whole head all the way around just to look 30 degrees to the right. I felt that even though I am a social person, I had no desire to be social because I felt like such an annoyance, I didn't feel like myself because of this learning disability simulation. It made me feel self conscious and worried about keeping up. This simulation made me think of how sometimes in the classroom we tend to put labels on children with disabilities and think they are not trying hard enough or they just are having a bad day or behavioral issues, but with this disability I lost all motivation to keep up especially when there was reading involved. We need to be more understanding and make accommodations based on their struggles and strengths.
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