Power Down

If you saw my blogpost a bit ago where you actually saw me doing a radio interview. You may have noticed I didn’t look at the camera much.

Recent conversations with my Nueropsych where I explained if I’m talking to someone I know, I don’t bother making eye contact. I know who they are, I trust them in my personal body space, I know what they look like so I’m only needing to engage in the conversation. Occasionally, I’ll look up at them to find they are staring deep into my eyes.

This is not to sound romantic at all and I’m generally taken aback being pinned by someone’s eye contact. In reality, I need to cater to my loss of eyesight in ways you cannot imagine all the time. I move people from my peripheral vision on my left to somewhere on my right. When people loiter in my blind spots my brain is trying to see/make-out what it can’t see and in this process, I get a migraine and generally, people I’m trying to see do not stand still. This adds to my brain strain.

So, it is to say, my nueropsych explained by not making eye contact with people it’s how I preserve my energy.

I thought it was how I Powered Down.