  With use and appropriation of digital environments by the Green Cane movement
in Brazil, the informational character in health is a central discursive
resource, and occurs imbued with (self) conceptions about the characteristic
ways of thinking, feeling and acting of the person with low vision. This work
aims at exploring the discourse of the person with low vision in the social
media about their own social identity. Based on the Interactive Health
Communication, videos on Youtube and Facebook and Instagram posts of the
Virtual Group Stargardt, a virtual community made up of people with low vision
and suffering from Stargardt's Disease, were investigated. From the selection
of excerpts and their coding, 42 identity traits were identified and grouped
into a synthetic model with 08 categories: (T1) we are low vision and we use
the green cane; (T2) we have sensitivity to light and we wear sunglasses; (T3)
we have difficulties in the day-to-day, but we use assistive strategies and
technologies; (T4) we are a PcD (Person with Disability) and we have rights
guaranteed by law; (T5) we seek to understand about our disease and we are the
spokesperson of it; (T6) we have a visual impairment, but we are not just that;
(T7) we live with conflicts and contradictions by the way we see things, and;
(T8) we recognize as a community. Such traits are constructed interactively,
through a construction based on moments of agreement, disagreement and good
humor. The discourses are oriented in the consolidation of a proper identity,
distinct from the person with blindness, but similar in the legal framework of
the visually impaired person.
