• I'm doing a 30-minute presentation on a rare genetic disorder known as "Retinitis Pigmentosa" for my biology class.
• Do you or someone you know have a genetic disorder?
• What is it like living/seeing them on a daily basis?
• Have they pursued treatment of some sort?
• If so, how has their life changed after receiving treatment?

I have hemophilia, type B severe.

Dude, that's cool. Sounds hard to do a full 30 min presentation by yourself. But good luck with it.

Most of us have a genetic disorder kek, what happens is that sometimes they don't manifest clinically or are insignificant disorders and don't make a huge physical or biological impact or they may even need some triggers to become more significant.

I know a lot of people with genetic disorders, mostly with down syndrome and ‎achromia a.k.a. albinism. A guy that lives in my street has down syndrome and everybody in the neighborhood is nice to him and i've even see him at some parties chilling.

I have a friend with achromia and she has a tough time cuz of the weather, it's hot af over here and people with achromia can't stand hot temperatures very well. She ended up moving because of the weather and for her own security, since a few years ago people with achromia were being seriously kidnapped and sold for human traffic. It was pretty sad to see those kind of news and see someone being unable to go out even for uni or buy groceries.

Afaik, most of the treatments for genetic disorders are for pain relieving or to reduce difficulties in daily tasks.. I don't think that the science has gone that far to ''cure'' some genetic disorders, specially when a person was born with that condition; you can do genetic counselling before having a baby but the thing does not block mutations from happening.

I dont necessarily have the disease you call "Retinitis Pigmentosa". But I do have a similar eye disease called Glaucoma, it currently has no treatment and the only thing you can do is slow it down. The disease itself causes damage to the optic nerve and causes vision loss, I forgot what type of glaucoma it is, but I currently use eye drops to stop it's advancement. The eye drops are known as Xalatan (a diluted mix of collyrium I'm pretty sure). I use them daily and do 6 month checkups.

It bugs me in everyday life pretty often, I've been having constant headaches with pressure on my eyes. Even when I don't have headaches, I find it pretty hard to focus on something thats 5 or more meters away from me, even with perfectly fine glasses. Even walking outside causes dizziness because of sunlight. My family always had some sort of bad eye sight, but it's the first time an actual eye disease showed up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit:: forgot to say, good luck on your presentation :>