Blind - Blog Posts

post by @ lucyedwardsofficial on instagram showing how the paralympics includes blind/visually impaired viewers of goalball!

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

The Dance of a Thousand Hands.

PSA People with visual impairments use the internet as well

I love the fact the so many people on tumblr go out of their way to help people with hearing impairments, it really shows how progressive and thoughtful people can be. However, one thing i rarely see brought up is people with seeing impairments. In 2013 i was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease called keratoconus, my vision is incredibly blurry and without special accommodations, i wouldn’t even be able to type this or use the internet at all. I see all the time where people will caption videos for those with hearing impairment which is absolutely amazing, but i don’t see a lot of people even acknowledging those with seeing impairments.

I know that a trend has emerged where you can post on tumblr in cursive font. I know its just fun for people, but I can’t see it all, i can’t read it and i often find myself left out of jokes or memes due to my eyesight. Another example would be those posts where there will be something odd or funny in the picture and people will post it with the caption,”don’t say anything.” Not only does this leave out people who honestly just can’t understand the joke (people with mental illnesses included) but it also leaves out the seeing impaired. I don’t like to make a huge deal out of anything, but i would greatly appreciate seeing more people being accommodating to those with seeing impairments as well.

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Remember when I said I’d post every Wednesday? I FORGOT.

Also fun fact, I’m a writer for a particular website so I’m here rn at SD Comic Con. It’s rough for a Thursday. I wanted to go to the Junji-Ito panel buttttt… there were some complications in the line.

First of all, this panel wasn’t even at the convention and being held at the Public Library which is very nice and I might consider going again. And the event was being held on the 9th floor, so wowza! Gotta be pretty fancy if they have 9 floors, right? Still not sure what happened, but they started moving people in line all the way back to the first floor and since the panel had already started after waiting for an hour, it was time to leave and make my trek back to the convention in the hot, hot sun.

Sweat continues to trickle down my back as I tried yet again to get into another popular panel only to find it has been spread into different sections a less several hallways. Tis the consequences of a popular convention so best to just cut my losses and find something in the exhibit hall.

So here I am over 2 hours early for a panel just so I can get in and reading a book so I don’t cry from the combined stress of the past few weeks.

Comic Con is awesome I swear, just the worms in my brain are saying;

“Hmm… reconsider.”

Witchtober 2024 #7. Blind 

Prompt List by @joyouart!!!:

Extras!: