>"Well, in the Depression, if you can't buy toys, you make 'em, " she says. >Beskind has macular degeneration and only has peripheral vision. So she draws her

>"Well, in the Depression, if you can't buy toys, you make 'em, " she says. >Beskind has macular degeneration and only has peripheral vision. So she draws her designs with easy-to-see thick black felt pens. She hands me a design for glasses that would help people like her. Necessity is the mother of all invention. My father also has macular degeneration, and he has developed his own tools and life hacks to assist him. Now I always seem to notice and take interest when someone has macular degeneration, and inevitably people have tools they developed on their own. Just recently an elderly gentleman with macular degeneration came into the law office and when it came time to sign an agreement he pulled out a credit card with a rectangle cut out that he had placed over signature lines so he could feel where to sign.