Yo from Prince Edward Island

**Yuma Kutsuu** · 04-21-2009, 10:01 PM

Hi so I am 18 years old, I have lived a life of video games and the arts... I want to learn to survive and become self dependant with only the need for nature. However there is a catch... I suffer from Acromatopsia a visual disorder which limits my vision and causes me a great deal of light sensativity. Without my sunglasses I can only see the world in blinks. However they tell me I have great night vision above the human average. So I want to also learn to utilize my strengths and work through my weaknesses (one outweighs the other)

Either way I joined this site with the hopes of learning from people who have been doing this for a while and sharing any knowledge I may have.

I hope we may be of use to each other. I am very glad that I found this place.

**Ken** · 04-21-2009, 10:02 PM

Welcome to the Forum!

**Runs With Beer** · 04-21-2009, 10:07 PM

Welcome from Fla.

**crashdive123** · 04-22-2009, 02:06 AM

Hello and welcome.

**Rick** · 04-22-2009, 07:20 AM

Welcome home. Everyone has their own cross to bear. Some are just more visible than others. Can you differentiate colors? Just curious.

Learning can begin in your own backyard. Begin by learning the basics; how to build shelter and fire as well as how to purify water. Those three can keep you alive for a long time. You can also learn to build field expedient sunglasses should something happens to yours while you are in the woods. The Inuits used a slit cut in wood.

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You can do the same thing by either cutting slits in cardboard, cloth (to some extent) or by poking holes in aluminum foil, which is a good material to always carry with you. The object, of course, is to limit the amount of light reaching the eyes.

**Yuma Kutsuu** · 04-22-2009, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Rick

Welcome home. Everyone has their own cross to bear. Some are just more visible than others. Can you differentiate colors? Just curious.

Learning can begin in your own backyard. Begin by learning the basics; how to build shelter and fire as well as how to purify water. Those three can keep you alive for a long time. You can also learn to build field expedient sunglasses should something happens to yours while you are in the woods. The Inuits used a slit cut in wood.

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You can do the same thing by either cutting slits in cardboard, cloth (to some extent) or by poking holes in aluminum foil, which is a good material to always carry with you. The object, of course, is to limit the amount of light reaching the eyes.

I can see really vibrant colours like crimson but generally no except when I get what is called a colour flash where I can temporarily for a short period of time see colours. My colour receptors are only half gone as they told me.

Thanks for the tip I will start researching there. Field Epediant Sunglasses! That is amazing thank you so much that i infinately useful to me. Now I won't be a dead man if my glasses break in the wilderness.

**Rick** · 04-22-2009, 08:31 AM

Obviously, anything that will shade your eyes will be of benefit should you loose or break your sunglasses in the wild. Just use your head. Salvage whatever you can of the broken glasses (if possible) and think through what you have on your person that can replace them. Folks should carry a survival kit with them when in the field. Yours might include some vehicle window tinting or other colored, flexible plastics that you could use in an emergency. I suppose you could even manufacture some shades out of colored plastic bottles that might work in a pinch.

**Yuma Kutsuu** · 04-22-2009, 12:55 PM

I consider myself to be a resourceful intelligent person but I never thought of that. It seems I have a lot to learn. I can't thank you enough. I will start contemplating a survival kit.

**Alpine_Sapper** · 04-22-2009, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Obviously, anything that will shade your eyes will be of benefit should you loose or break your sunglasses in the wild. Just use your head. Salvage whatever you can of the broken glasses (if possible) and think through what you have on your person that can replace them. Folks should carry a survival kit with them when in the field. Yours might include some vehicle window tinting or other colored, flexible plastics that you could use in an emergency. I suppose you could even manufacture some shades out of colored plastic bottles that might work in a pinch.

Or toss in a pair of ballistic shatterproof sunglasses.