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Morbus Stargardt
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Also known as: Stargardt disease · juvenile macular dystrophy · fundus flavimaculatus · hereditary macular degeneration · Stargardt dystrophy · juvenile macular degeneration · vision loss in children
Your Body Is Speaking
The centre of your vision is blurring. Slowly, usually beginning in youth, the macula — the point on the retina that gives you your sharpest sight — loses its function. The edges stay clear, but the middle grows hazy. Faces lose their contours. Letters become shadows. What lies directly in front of you withdraws from your gaze — while the periphery remains visible.
Morbus Stargardt is a hereditary disease. The genetics here are beyond question, and no psychosomatic approach in the world can change or relativise that. What BodySignal offers is not an explanation for the illness — but a complementary perspective on what it means in lived experience. Because even a genetically conditioned symptom has a language. Even an inherited change in vision can mirror something that reaches beyond the retina.
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