During class we talked about the medical attention and care that is not consistent across the board when it comes to the pregnancy process of women of color, specifically black. As a male I cant really relate to that from personal experience outside of the two successful sea sections that my mom went through with my siblings. What I will talk about however is the times of my life where I personally was misdiagnosed with something that was never present. Inconsistency and failure of medical procedures across the board doesn’t only extend to the pregnancy process but other aspects and avenues of medical support with people of color. The amount of times I was falsely diagnosed with Glaucoma is criminal. Throughout my years switching from medical provider to medical provider, the only thing in common that always came up was Glaucoma whenever it came to my eyes, without thorough testing of any sort. Out of all the doctors I have ever visited there was only one that properly was able to find out what was wrong with my eyes. As a backstory, growing up, I’ve always needed glasses ever since the age of 3-4. As time past by my vision and eye sight started to dissipate as I got older to the point where I had to get new prescriptions every time to accommodate. Any person of the field after hearing that is going to automatically diagnose it as Glaucoma but that was never really the case. The one doctor that was able to get it right informed me that it was something biological that I was born with. It turned out to be that I was born with a set of enlarged optical nerves in my eyes which was the cause of my poor eyesight. As a lot of people don’t know, if you have an enlarged optical nerve, it blocks more light coming into the eye which causes eye vision to dissipate. After all these years dealing with this abnormality and still dealing with it today, it also raises concern to me that my problem isn’t necessarily labeled a disability. As we’ve talked in class, depression was one of the topics that we tossed around as being a disability or not. With me, I wonder how blind I have to be for it to be considered one in the sense that whenever I fill a medical waiver or form, everything else shows up except anything eye related. I find it crucial to wonder this because if I fill out a form for some type of medication that might have affects on me and my body, how am I supposed to trust it when the medical form before taking it includes all of the health questions, but anything eye related in terms of what side effects it can cause. To me this just highlights yet another problem that is prevalent within the medical field and how it took one out of a bunch of eye doctors to actually take their actual time to monitor and diagnose the abnormality that I had.