Hilary Lawson's Story Reflection
Hilary Lawson writes about this man named John who suffers from visual agnosia. Visual agnosia is when a person is able to see something or anything, but not recognize what is the importance of it. For example, he can see his house but isn't able to recognize it as his own. I would hate to live like that. To just now know what anything is or what it's supposed to be used for. That brings up the question if I would rather be blind or have visual agnosia. That's a really hard question because if I were blind I wouldn't be able to see anyways, so I wouldn't be able to connect anything from sight. I would rather be blind because in visual agnosia the person won't be able to learn what anything is used for no matter how many times he sees it. If I'm blind at least I can learn of what things are through my other senses and still possibly be able to connect its uses. I feel so bad for all the people who have to suffer from this disease. I can't imagine what that would be like. I would feel so helpless, and never get used to it.