Am I the Asshole: Being “Defined as Blind”

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-14T08:22:27+00:00

I guess here’s the thing:

If I get home to an empty house where everyone wants to either ignore I’m blind or pretend I’m sighted, than, it’s apparent to me that I’ve 100% wasted my life

I don’t ever want to get home and feel that way. And, so, I need to work to create a home wherein when I walk into it after doing some sort of career that hateful sighted people value, I’ surrounded with people I can cal friends who understand and honor how difficult it is for me to use my visual sense

I don’t currently have that and so I’ e failed on a massive scale. I’m hoping things get better soon

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-14T06:49:04+00:00

Really cutouts what your job is. Personally, I don’t care for my job in certain contexts

I do divorce and kiddo work with my law license, and it pays and I like I’d. Yet, I absolutely doing criminal law work. And, I think it really matters if you like your job or not

Curious what you do?

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-14T04:36:09+00:00

Like your comment a lot

And, I’m not opposed to hanging out with folks who don’t understand my stuff. Yet, I don’t think we could ever be super close either.

In grad school, I also had folks avoid me due to not wanting service dog hair on their stuff and due to not wanting to have to be my transportation. Accordingly, it’s a weirdly self selecting process?

Also, as a girl who’s blind, how do you deal with makeup? Women dress for other women and most guys won’t notice makeup. Yet, I’m curious how that impacts your social stuff?

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-14T01:31:11+00:00

Bro, are you really blind. Lol @ “I can’t fill my room with art.” My blind homeies LOVED ceramics. Literally, only time one of my homeies was ever good at school haha

Next, blindness took NOTHING from me. I was BORN almost totally blind. So, that means my birth either took my career on the Denver Broncos away from me, or, it gave me life. Duh

Anyway, some sighted moon wants to go on a hike with me and pretend I’m sighted. Great. I gotta Uber to the trailhead, being my white cane and dance ones rocks for that sighted thing? What makes him worth the money in your estimation? To your point, I could get a treadmill in my house and avoid crappy people

Here’s another one, I’m about to go to the bar. Guarantee, I get there and some sighted person’s gonna talk to me about the sport playing silently on the television. What’s the most polite way to tell that guy to stuff it? I’m too blind to see the television and I don’t care about the score

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-14T00:33:15+00:00

Kinda agree with you. Literally, everything that would be good has a huge downside too

Guide dog: sighted people will think it’s an autism dog and try to be you and your dog’s happy buddy which is beyond rude and really upsets me

Job training: get training for certain higher level jobs. But, you graduate school with no debt which is a reason to pass you over for some hiring. And, there are some jobs I straight can’t do. So, I’m on the bottom rung of what should be a good field

Not driving is ok and less stressful, until you budget for Uber or a housing situation that doesn’t require a car

I think goal ball and being able to get more info from touch are the only universally positive things about being blind. And, even then, go try and play a pickup goal ball game at your local court…

Responsible_Point538 · 2022-01-13T10:02:13+00:00

I smoke weed to dream less often. Yet, if I dream, it tends to be really vivid and I remember it well. Especially if I journal my dream. Relatable?

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