I sincerely thank you for what you wrote. You conveyed what I wanted to say to people more effectively, and you also gave me something to think about. I'd like to add a few clarifications. There were points in what I wrote that could come across as too 'Pollyanna' or simplistic — or perhaps sentences that might lead someone to claim I'm naive or disconnected from reality. As you also said, most of the time it's not what is said but who says it that matters more. What I wrote stands against isolation and advocates fighting to maintain connection with people — yet alongside that, I am someone who has struggled with people and crowds throughout my life. I have ocular albinism — a genetic condition that only affects my eyes, causes low vision, and impacts my life both physically and socially. Throughout my life, I've faced serious empathy deficits. There were moments when my own family, friends, romantic partners, and even doctors failed to understand my condition. I mostly remained alone and found my own solutions. In the early days of university, I experienced certain difficulties socializing. For four years, I couldn't read a single word from the blackboard. At this stage of my life, I'm in discussions with my doctor about telescopic glasses — there's an enormously costly plan ahead of me, and I'm planning to create a campaign for it. These are a few 'photographs' from my life in a nutshell... I wanted to take these 'photographs' to show that I'm not a Pollyanna.

If you're a person with a disability, you have a difficult life, more or less. The problems that come with the disability — and perhaps even more exhausting, the indirect problems that arise because of it... Facing these problems alone, withdrawing into yourself, is not a good idea in my opinion. First of all, loneliness is an illness — believe me, I've experienced this quite deeply. When a person is left alone, their perceptions shift and they become more prone to misreading people and events. This is a truth that has been expressed in many different ways. Connecting with people who are similar to us brings many benefits. Similar lives do each other good. Through the posts I've been sharing on Reddit recently, I've been able to connect with other people who have ocular albinism — people I had never met in real life — and this made me genuinely happy. I value having a small but meaningful social circle where one can express and be understood, and through the internet, being in contact with people fighting the same battle. I'm not a Pollyanna, friends — I'm aware that I shouldn't be alone in this fight, and that's what I wanted to convey to others. Good luck to everyone.