What They Don't See
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A Method for Investigating Change Blindness in Pigeons Columba Livia
Published on: September 7, 2018
1a School of Media & Communication , Bowling Green State University.
Abstract:
The author is currently living with a chronic autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, which caused his hypothyroidism. Although this disease is most common in middle-aged women, he was diagnosed at age 23. This disease is unique, because it is not entirely visible to others. In this piece, he presents a personal narrative of his diagnosis process and utilizes poetic inquiry to demonstrate to readers what "they," meaning individuals without an invisible chronic autoimmune disease, don't see.
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