https://lanie.work/tags/medical-gaslighting/ Recent content in Medical-Gaslighting on Lanie: Faith, Tech, and Advocacy Hugo en-us Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/advocacy/they-found-it-and-stopped-looking/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/advocacy/they-found-it-and-stopped-looking/ <p>I was born with optic nerve hypoplasia. It&rsquo;s the reason I&rsquo;m blind.</p> <p>They found it early. That&rsquo;s the problem.</p> <p>Finding the optic nerve thing gave everyone an answer, and an answer is the most dangerous thing you can hand a doctor, because once they have one, they stop looking. My blindness was explained. So everything else got folded into the same story. She&rsquo;s blind. That&rsquo;s the picture they settled for.</p>