#blind community

[clairedelune-13]

The TARDIS having ramps/walkways instead of stairs isn’t just helpful to wheelchair users. It’s also great for the blind/visually impaired. I know there will never be a blind companion, and blind rep will never be a priority in media, but considering my own issues with stairs, the Tardis taking away the stairs for smooth walkways is nice. 🥰

[varian-ross-horror-author]

Me: Being disabled sucks, especially with a rare condition that doesnt' have much research. There are times when I wish I wasn't disabled, so that I could lead a "normal" life.

Someone: I'm praying for you that your disability suddenly goes away entirely and that you're normal again.

Me: *folding up my cane to better beat their ass* how DARE you--

[mandana-the-service-pup]

Service dogs are not exempt from local dog registration in the United States so we went to our City Hall to pay our annual $10 fee. They were closed for renovations so we had to leave without dropping it off.

We were already prepped for public access training so I took her grocery shopping instead. It was my first time driving since starting Methotrexate and I felt even more dizzy & nauseous than I usually do while driving. There are some driving warnings on the Rx so I’m thinking it’s related. I will have to be extra cautious until I figure out the details.

My main focus was public access training so shopping was slow. It amazes me how she always seems to be improving even when we have to take long breaks from public access. A couple halfhearted sniffing mistakes that were easily redirected and that was it. Her heeling is marvelous imo. She was noticeably slower on her position changes but I know it’s because I swapped out her old shoes for new ones that still need to be broken in. I like the Ruffwear Grip Trex for quick outings but they can be tough to break-in especially in the cold.

She was being super good at ignoring people which I like to reward with occasional breaks to say hi to polite strangers. She prefers kids & elderly people so when I noticed a blind preteen with her grandmother who were talking kindly about us I offered to let her say hi. The child was especially excited to meet Mandana because she is working on getting her own service dog. I described Mandana & her gear and let her feel her ears, head, harness, badge and shoes. I answered questions about training & tasks. She wanted to know what tasks Mandana knows that could help a blind person so I told her about how she’s trained to locate specific objects by name and bring them to me. She was excited to show me her Disney stickers so I gave her one of Mandana’s custom stickers and showed her how she could feel the ears and tail that are cut out. Mandana really enjoyed the attention and we all had a fun conversation.

[theflagscene]

I wake up only to be the most annoyed I have been since last Friday, fuck off Last Twilight and fuck off P’Aof with his ableist happy ending bullshit. There was absolutely no reason for Day to get his sight back, he was a whole ass person.

BLIND PEOPLE ARE WHOLE ASS PEOPLE!!!

The blind and blind adjacent community have had to deal with this kind of crap constantly, the ‘why can’t you just get new eyes’ bullshit. Well why can’t you just be happy with us the way we are? Huh? We’re not here to make your life easier by going through dangerous and painful medical procedures so that you can feel better about the ‘poor blind folks’. Some blind people might be willing to go through those types of procedures, and that’s their choice if they do or don’t. But having a television series written by physical abled people that’s entire hook is the romanticization of finally being able to see their lover in the end just boils my piss, I know when I finally lose my sight completely I can promise you that my partners and family will love me the exact same way as they did before the accident that caused me to lose my sight. And that my life will be as complete then as it is now, I don’t need to be fixed and neither does anybody else.

Your perceived disability is not a problem that needs to be fixed!

[adventuringblind]

Hi sweet, I know you’re blind from your pinned post but is there anything we can do as readers/ followers of your blog to make reading easier for you? For example not using certain punctuation or abbreviations etc? Is there anything we can do to make ourselves as accessible for any technology you might have or use?

Ohhhhhhhhh A great question!! A considerate question!! All things considered, I'm actually pretty lucky with the type of blindness I have since it's not going to get any worse and I still have a bit of it left.

My optic nerve is in shambles, I don't have any peripheral, I can't differentiate color shades that well, and me and gravity aren't friends. That being said - I still have some of my vision! It just means my dreams of ever driving anything on a road are in shambles.

(Getting a guide dog soon though so I'm excited about that!)

There really isn't anything y'all can do for me personally (aside from ask questions because I love to help bring awareness). I use small screens and do my best not to exhaust myself. Reading isn't an issue for me, it just takes forever.

And don't get me started about seeing a movie in theaters! A 4D experience!

This was such a kind thing to see in my inbox and I appreciate it so much. I am very open about talking about my medically disastrous body, so if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

[wormonastringtheory]

A friend, also the coolest human on earth, (A Black transmasc deafblind spectrum sculpture and textile artist, creative, community/spiritual leader, polyglot, singer, writer, and a director of a mental health organization centering marginalized folks, I only mention all this because I need you to appreciate how epic the person you're gonna be working with is), is seeking a Braille poet for a commission they want done. The commission would only be a line or two long. The commission would pay $200 CAD. People with Canadian bank accounts preferred for convenience sake.

[amethystpittman]

I have a question for my fellow blind/visually impaired/people with low vision. Our vision is -7, stopped dropping in about 2021, and hopefully would stay that way. For a bit of background, it was a birth trauma, our vision began dropping since we were 1 and began rapidly dropping since we were about 5, basically we don't remember what it's like to be without glasses. And we recently came to a realization that we've never had any support groups or met people in a similar situation as us, and we have never been given any accessibility tools other than glasses. We've basically always dealt with it alone. It was literally yesterday when we found out that we found out we could see white on black better, which improved our ability to read and watch videos online. My question is: is that bad? I know that the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities are awesome, have whole support groups and the community itself, have a whole very cool language developed. We went through all that alone as kids, were not able to talk about it with people who could understand and give advice, and were under a constant genuine threat of going blind. And, to be honest, doctors are not exactly your best buddies with this. I was wondering if that could have been traumatizing.

Was that bad? Should be start looking for a community with people like us?

-host

[rainarainbows]

Introduction

Dear Internet, 

Why hello the name is Raina Rainbows and I’m a writer! I hope someday to publish my own stories one day to the world and of course mainly self publish my works. 

Hoping to go to community college for the English major and sadly if I can’t go due to money reasons then death! Haha! Just joking! 

Oh yeah I’m a visually impaired/blind writer so yes writing this is damn hard due to my eye sight! 

I will turn 20 soon and am hoping to post on this account more, what exactly who knows?! 

Let’s just say I am a woman who enjoys her fandoms for example. 

Helluva Boss 

Night Court 

Youtubers 

And so much more manly with youtubers but hey you now know bits of me plus I’m aseuxal! 

Love, Raina Rainbows 

[kindsoulbuddy]

I just have to say, I’m not new to the internet.

But…the internet continues to disappoint me. There I am, I find wholesome content or whatever.

But people on the internet keep trying to ruin everything.

I’ve been watching Squirmy and Grubs videos for a while and I’ve been learning more about Shane and his writing career, his condition. Also his wife Hannah, etc…

….I go to look up more information about them and I see so many videos/reddit posts/Quora posts pop up, claiming that Hannah and Shane have to be faking their relationship.

That Hannah simply can’t be attracted to him, that she’s got other guys on the roster or whatever and/or she’s just in it for the money. Or she’s disgusting because she has a weird fetish. Or just how “something is off”.

My brothers in Christ…

Why is it so hard to imagine that an interabled relationship is real? They literally happen all the time everyday every where.

What has Hannah ever done to make you think she’s just in it for the $$$ and isn’t attracted to Shane? Oh I know, she committed the crime of being beautiful.

If you’ve ever watched Shane, he’s a really funny and interesting dude who has written books and accomplished quite a lot. But he committed the crime of being disabled I guess.

Please stop 🛑 collaborate 🤔 and listen 👂 to people who are disabled and in interabled relationships. People like Shane and Hannah are putting out information for you for free, trying to educate you and honestly they do it in an entertaining way. They don’t have to.

Honestly the main point here is to stop assuming what disabled people want or need and try to listen to those who choose to talk about it.

If you are skeptical or uncomfortable with some of this, I suggest making yourself familiar with spokespeople like Squirmy and Grubs, and checking out the resources they put out into the public.

I also suggest watching Molly Burke’s channel, a Blind woman who has been traveling the world spreading her message about the Blind community.

I’ve learned so much from her. I learned that I assumed a lot that I shouldn’t have assumed. And that’s the point of resources like these. You don’t know what you don’t know.

There’s a lot off innocent assumptions people make but the thing I’ve noticed about certain people that talk about their disabilities…they generally have a good amount of patience and kindness to people who don’t understand yet.

If you feel bad for what you said or did, try to do better and move on, don’t beat yourself up or anything. Just do better.

I just feel like, if you’re going to take the time to go on Reddit or Quora or Youtube and debunk people’s relationships, whom you don’t know and spread assumptions…take that time instead to put away your phone and go touch some grass.

But…before you put the phone away…

great video to start with:

[gemaydin]

can someone explain how accessibility works in Tumblr? some of you told em that image descriptions do not work. do tags work? should I not tag to give my opinion? I always did that before so I want to learn. I will also add the video descriptions as RB but I want to know if there is smth else I can do.

I want to make my account as accessible as I can and I want to know from actual disabled blogs here.

[fandomele]

2 free downloads from my ko-fi shop - see source of the post, part of a collection of 406 gif headers for tumblr mobile (640x360px) focusing on disabilities and lgbt-ness, transparent images with pride flag as a background. [also 2 downloads with non transparent images]

I used 13 different images: 1 about blindness - the only one not fully transparent 1 about speaking sign language 6 about wheelchair users 4 about having a prosthetic hand 1 about having a prosthetic leg

part 1 focuses on wheelchair users, sign language and blindness, part 2 on prosthetics.

They are repeated 11 times, each for every pride flag I made as their background (asexual, agender, aromantic, aroace, bisexual, lesbian, mlm gay, nonbinary, pansexual, rainbow, transgender pride flag - if they can apply) and each of these 11 headers has 3 variations with different animations: explosion of glitter, falling stars and hearts.

Free but obviously feel welcomed to buy me a coffee if you'd like - if you can't, that's also okay, we've all been there, just enjoy the download! <3

[varian-ross-horror-author]

If Earth Is Hell

If we are in hell, then it is hell with fine spring mornings and singing birds. “Earth is nothing but pain,” but I am assigning times to my talking watch, rolling my new cane along the sidewalk, and trying that new recipe I found with confidence. Hummingbirds startle away when my indicator says I’ve poured enough coffee, but my neighbors know that sound is not a call of distress, but of life. All battles of autonomy have been hard-fought and won. My home is adapted to my needs, even for days when I have to pull the curtains because .light is too much. My life is different than I imagined, but life—my life--while being almost blind—is still worth living.

[bpdcodone]

Might be eligible to get my left eye removed soon 🤪

[jedi-starbird]

Time Travel is my favourite trope and I think we need more fics where both Obi-Wan AND Qui-Gon time travel together because no matter when they get sent it's chaos. They're saving the galaxy and being physic flash-bangs to everyone around them.

like before Bandomeer?

The entire council is baffled to watch as Qui-Gon 'never taking a padawan again' Jinn has suddenly cut off his post-Xanatos depression tour to return to the temple and beeline to the creche with a frantic energy. His wild eyes immediately single out a fluffy, red-haired initiate.

"You." he exhales with a pointed finger, slightly ominous as he towers over the child. Said child starts vibrating with delight. "Me." he agrees, launching himself at the man. Qui-Gon drops to his knees with a thud that cannot be healthy. Obi-Wan's attempts to clamber into Qui-Gon's robes and maybe onto his shoulders is thwarted by the fact that Qui-Gon's massive hands are cupping Obi-Wan's tiny squishy cheeks. He stares at the initiate for a few minutes with an intensity that is starting to worry people.

Finally, "You're so small." Qui-Gon sounds like he might cry.

'What the fuck?' Plo Koon projects at Mace.

"I'm 9! That tends to be the case!" the child chirps back.

"You're nine." Oh. Ah. Qui-Gon's eyes are distinctively misty. He squishes the boy in a hug so hard he squeaks. Mace makes a series of gestures that imply the need for a head-scan. Depa obligingly drifts off towards the halls. Qui-Gon scoops the child up onto his hip and claims him as his padawan on the spot. The assorted council members and creche-masters burst into noise. Mace tells Depa to bring some space ibuprofen as well.

after Naboo?

Anakin is a little apprehensive of his place in both the order and Obi-Wan's life, but then one day Obi-Wan wakes up and is suddenly a lot less sad in the force?? In fact, if Anakin didn't know better he'd say he was almost giddy, but he's watched Obi-Wan try to pretend his world hasn't fallen apart for the past few months so it can't be that, right? And um, Miss Bant? He knows grief is a funny thing that affects people differently but he's pretty sure 'massive mood swing' and 'having full conversations with invisible people' is not...great? and you said to tell you if Obi-Wan got really weird in any way.

Anyway after a lot of medical exams, intense consultation with the archives, and a couple exorcisms, Anakin ends up being raised by his 'real' master and his ghost master. He is far more well adjusted emotionally and far less well adjusted for what counts as normal people behavior(not talking to thin air). When questioned on this, all he ever says is that he's talking to Qui-Gon. Isn't he...dead? Well, yes. Wait, he's a ghost? Ghosts are real? ...Well this ghost is real.

This starts a great number of existential crises among non-force sensitives and incredibly heated theological arguments amongst the Jedi. Whenever Obi-Wan is questioned on this, all he ever says is some variation of "the force got to know him for 5 seconds and kicked him back out." Mace backs him up on this even though that reasoning is technically blasphemous. Qui-Gon is having the time of his un-life. He's ascended to his final form, his sheer existence is a heresy, this is truly all he has ever aspired towards.

the Clone Wars?

The minute they get dropped back Qui-Gon immediately goes and haunts the shit out of Dooku. They have a signed terms of surrender and promise of info on the Sith Lord within the year. Only half of it is because Qui-Gon's giving Dooku complexes that are only perceptible to shrimp, the other half is because they now have a ghost spy that is not bound by the laws of physics nor spacetime.

Obi-Wan only nominally pays attention to this as he immediately goes and implements his 19 step seduction plan with Cody (he had to focus on something on Tatooine to pass the time). It fails. Spectacularly. Publicly. Ah right. Tatooine was not exactly the height of his sanity. Everyone in the GAR and temple is now riveted by High General and Councilor Obi-Wan Kenobi's attempts to go on a date with his Commander, who bats him away him like a particularly annoying stray and seems one bouquet of cactus away from committing mutiny. Anakin is worrying if it means his master knows about his secret marriage and this is some sort of really weird power play. (It is, but not in the way he thinks)

The next time Dooku goes after Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon spends a good few months appearing tear-stained at the edge of Dooku's perception and only communicating in terrible wails and discordant mutterings of 'padawan. my padawan. my little one.' 24/7.

"Wait, you're annoying Dooku into surrendering?"

"Oh no Anakin, we're crushing his psyche like a bug. :)"

[adventuringblind]

I am also blind. Thanks, I feel so understood.

So glad that I'm reaching the blind community!

Being blind and loving racing is sometimes painful. I remember being four years old and deciding I wanted to be a Nascar driver.

We didn't have cable, but my dad showed me YouTube clips, and I fell in love. It was ironic because I was a cautious kid until I got competitive.

Then I got sick and lost my vision. I was almost five at the time. My parents knew how much I wanted to drive, so they never said anything.

Cars was a staple movie in my house. I rode my bike around and pretended to drive. My dad taught me about the different parts of the cars. About the different gears and how shifting works.

I planned it all out in my head.

Then, when I was 10, I was going for an eye exam. Just to make sure everything with my optic never was still as stable as it can get.

I saw a car when we were driving and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I was so excited about that I told my eye doctor about it. I told him how I wanted to drive a car like that when I got older.

He broke the news to me that day that you need peripheral to drive. I cried on the way home.

My parents were planning to slowly ease me into it. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion when I was able to understand better.

Instead, they had to go through every phase of grief with me. I went backward through different motor sports. If I couldn't drive a car, then maybe a motorcycle. If I can't drive a motorcycle either, then maybe a bike. Maybe a snowboard? A skateboard? Surfing? How about team sports? Soccer? Basketball? Anything?!

It was incredibly frustrating. I wanted to compete but couldn't because it was a risk to myself and also a risk to others.

I figured it out eventually. I was thirteen when I decided to pursue something non-athletic.

All that to say, I love watching motor sports. However, I still get sad watching it sometimes. Sure, I'm happy where I'm at, grateful and successful even, but it doesn't stop me from thinking about what could have been.

I will never be able to drive. It's a cold, hard truth that I can't escape. So I'm glad that there is a community out there that understands.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 💕

[handmedownpocketpussy]

You know how white people use being scared as a weapon? All those videos of white women saying, "I called the cops because I felt like I was in danger" and how white guys have tiktoks about, "You need at least one semi automatic weapon close at hand at all times to defend your family" kinda shit?

That's what bothers me so much about watching fellow jews acting like just seeing a Palestinian flag or keffiyeh somehow automatically makes a place unsafe.

I mostly see it in US American jews posting about how they feel threatened by a Palestinian flag, or saying that anything referencing not wanting thousands and thousands of Palestinians to die is 'a call for jewish genocide'

Y'all. No. This tells me you have never interacted with a Palestinian or even the Muslim community at large. We diaspora Jews are not the victims here.

Your assimilation has ended on the path of weaponisation of your fears, which is not a great place to be.

If you honestly believe "The only safe place in the world for Jews is Israel" you've bought into someone fearmongering. I'm begging you to investigate why you bought that lie and who is benefiting from you buying it