After moving to London, I stumbled across Aniridia Network (AN) and decided to sign up.

All my well laid plans to get involved, however, fell to the wayside as I got distracted by PhD study, making new friends, and getting involved in the variety of opportunities London had to offer.

That was until I noticed the next London meet up was fortuitously scheduled for one of my rare free evenings!

This would be my first time attending an Aniridia Network meet-up and I must admit I wasn’t sure whether it would be for me or if I would get anything out of it. Despite the initial skepticism I decided, as with anything in life, it was worth a go!

So, after work I hoped on the tube and made my way to the meet up location. Despite my doubts I had a really good time. Honestly, I was surprised at how much I did enjoy myself at an event that was, in essence, a collection of random people who only had an eye condition in common. But I really loved hearing about other’s experiences, finding out what they did and how they got there.

It was also interesting and almost strange (in the best way) to hear a lot of my own day-to-day
struggles mirrored in others. Having people understand these difficulties; on a level that even the
most empathetic non-visually impaired person just can’t; was quite eye opening.

Overall, I had a great experience and definitely plan to go to more. I recommend to anyone
considering attending and Aniridia Network meet-up to just go for it, see what happens. Maybe next time I will see you there!

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