Re: Wannabe bike rider/owner question

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On Apr 24, 12:47 am, langkd_NO_S...@xxxxxxx (Road Glidin' Don) wrote:
And I can imagine
scenarios in which you wouldn't want to talk about the exact reasons. ...

For all I know, you may have suffered from clinical depression, right
from your teen years and you have been engaged in a life-long struggle
that isolates you

That's not far from the truth... though I have other problems as
well. I've had enough physical problems over the years to skirt the
edge of "disability"- as a kid I was highly uncoordinated as well and
was in a special ed class in PE. I was born with ventricular septal
defect of the heart, optic nerve hypoplasia, and a hernia. My parents
were told I'm be lucky to make it to 5'1 in height (I'm 5'8, fairly
short legs, 28-29 inch inseam, 33 inch arms- fairly long neck, big
head- alot of bikes are too tall for me).

I've got 20/30 vision in one eye, and 20/40 in the other- and that's
with glasses on. I'm lucky, many people with nystagmus are legally
blind. I credit alot of my visual ability to the fact my dad bought
me a home computer to play video games with when I was a kid. My
periphreal vision is relatively normal, though, at least in the field
(not sure about the "resolution" I get- but I did see that cop car- I
was stupid and should have checked both ways before proceeding down
the parking lot but I figured nobodied be doing 30 in a parking lot,
either). An optometrist, if I were to walk in out of the blue and
tell him, "hey, I have nystagmus... and I ride a bike", might well
have kittens. Luckily my nystagmus is relatively mild and has gotten
a little better with a change in my glasses to increase the amount of
convergence (I wear prismatic lenses).

At some point in my life my vision may be so bad that I have to give
up riding and/or driving- something like a mild case of macular
degeneration for instance would probably make me go legally blind,
since I already have a small optic nerve. In fact a small optic nerve
is similar to macular degeneration, you lose the ability to see very
fine details, theye eyes compensate by moving quickly up-and-down or
back-and-forth (nystagmus).


It's probably very tempting to do,
since you recieve lots of criticism in your direction, but there are
few things the public is more is more unified in hating than people
who try to justify laziness in that manner.

Oh, I'll freely admit I'm "lazy". Or burnt out. I don't know
which. I just don't see alot of point anymore to participating in
normal society, I feel like an outcast and tired of rejection, so I
just have retreated from it for the most part. Maybe that gives me a
different perspective from most ordinary people who play the game and
don't "get" how somebody could live differently than they do, with
different values. That's probably why I'm politically not
conservative.

I looked for a job, but it was alot harder than people said it would
be. I really wanted to work in the local coffee shop but they aren't
hiring- the place is filled with college age kids for the most part,
most of the jobs around here are. I spent a year looking fairly
regularly for some kind of little job to do outside the house,
something that wouldn't require me spending alot of time on the
road... and I really couldn't find anything. So I've pretty much
given up. Nobody is hiring and it's even harder if you have a spotty-
to-nonexistant work history.

I was offered a job doing landscape work by a guy visiting our
neighborhood, and I'm actually thinking of doing that. I just hate to
let people down. I talked to the kid who runs the operation (he's
younger than me), and he seemed to be pushing the fact he wants fast
workers. I've never been particularly fast at any manual work. Not
to say I'm lazy but I don't hustle. I like to do stuff right, not do
it fast.
.

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