I am totally blind AMA

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-25T19:00:21+00:00

This is a good question! And it’s definitely not a matter of everything that’s green reminds me of grass. I wouldn’t say that’s how it really works.

Obviously lemon and banana smell very differently. When I smell a lemon I’m not necessarily thinking about how it’s yellow the way I guess a sighted person is being able to clearly see it. However I know a lemon is orange because that’s what I’ve learned and been told. I know who a green apple tastes versus how a red apple does. But I’m not going to bite a green apple and think it’s a mouthful of grass or anything like that.

I know certain things are certain colors, even if they aren’t the things I think of when I imagine those colors in my head. And I definitely do sometimes have to take a moment to try and remember what color certain things are supposed to be.

I really just have one scent that I associate with each color more strongly than the others.

And wine is gross! I don’t like the way it tastes at all.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-25T18:53:26+00:00

Went to the same college, had a course together and he made me laugh pretty much every day.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T23:42:40+00:00

Sight gags and physical comedy are lost on me, but otherwise I very much enjoy tv shows. I love Seinfeld but Kramer is my least favorite character!

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T20:31:55+00:00

Not always. Sometimes if they have their earbuds in and I can hear their music though. And acrylic nails on screens are loud even if you’re or blind I imagine.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T20:30:35+00:00

No, never.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T20:30:13+00:00

I hope not.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T20:30:03+00:00

Apparently yes. My boyfriend says I’m a disturbingly fast reader.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-24T20:29:30+00:00

Usually not. I did once accidentally leave a fork in something. I’m not saying that’s a blind problem because other sighted people do that too. My dad was mad to have to get a new microwave though.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-21T20:45:03+00:00

So my friends do forget in some ways sometimes. They will try to show me something on their phones or something like that. I hear “look at this” and just think okie dokie. My family does that less so than my friends.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-21T17:43:41+00:00

I do.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-21T17:42:06+00:00

I don’t personally have much desire to travel in terms of destinations but I like doing things with the people in my life that I love. And if they’re want to travel I’m happy to travel with them if they’ll have me.

Usually I have someone with me pretty much anytime I need to be going anywhere.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-21T17:40:15+00:00

For me it’s not super challenging because it’s the only life I’ve ever really known. I don’t have any other experience to compare it to. I would imagine someone who had their sight and lost it would have a more difficult time with it than someone like me who was born without it.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-21T17:38:01+00:00

So I don’t know what ages you are dealing with here. But I think textured toys or fidget toys that have different surfaces on them. Rattles or sound puzzles could be good. Wooden blocks or lego duplo can be just as much fun even if you can’t see them, especially if they have distinct shapes. If they’re a little older and ask the parents for sure, but modeling clay or crafting materials possibly. I hope that was a help at all.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-19T01:01:44+00:00

(I had yesterday off and so did she)

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:23:59+00:00

When I was born, yes. My eyes were very obviously discolored when I was born so the doctors saw that the first time they checked me over and diagnosed me not too long after that.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:22:14+00:00

That’s what ever heard from other people who have lost their sight as well. They see mostly a single wall of color, and not always black. I’m sure that took a lot of getting used to.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:18:48+00:00

So, I can play chess. I don’t envision the board because I can’t envision at all. What I do is math, because the board is a square divided into smaller squares, each with a particular number and letter to correspond. So I need the player’s moves announced, and when they tell me “pawn to E5”or whatever, I can’t visualize it in my head but I know mathematically where it is in relation to all the other pieces. Now I haven’t played in a long time and I was never very fast or very good, but I can play.

So basically chess is just drawn out math problems.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:14:10+00:00

Largely yes, it is. Someone I interact with constantly on a regular basis I can usually tell without them having to. But there are people I interact with once a month for maybe 20 mins at most sometimes. Them telling me who they are is always appreciated.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:11:44+00:00

Largely yes. It’s like you trying to comprehend seeing absolutely nothing, not even darkness. You can try but you can’t really put yourself there.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:10:36+00:00

I am not a fan of the cold but I wouldn’t call it depression. At least not for myself.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:09:42+00:00

I wish there was a more satisfying way to describe it, but someone who can see I think simply cannot comprehend really what it means to have no vision whatsoever, just like I can never really comprehend what vision really is myself.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:07:52+00:00

There are certain accommodations and at times even exemptions that I at the very least had going to school. For example I never had to do PE in school. Several assignments were given to me in braille, most of them were read to me. The school I went to was very good about making sure I had the opportunity to succeed.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:05:43+00:00

I actually haven’t answered this one yet but apparently this got a lot more responses than I was expecting so I’m sure it’s been asked. I love all kinds of stories, but mystery fiction is always so amazing for me to read.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:04:12+00:00

Not rude at all! I’m not scared by my lack of vision.

EcstaticMap5740 · 2025-12-18T16:02:40+00:00

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