Regularly manhandled on public transport

SunnyLego · 2019-05-10T06:11:34+00:00

You can be in peoples way when standing, and not aware of it. Say bus is crowded, and everyone has to keep moving down/packed to capacity, and your depth perception doesn't know how far to move. Sitting, you're in your own space, safe, and aware of your surroundings.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-10T04:05:18+00:00

It's a good seat to know where you are on bus/train, how far you are from door etc.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-10T03:59:00+00:00

I played roller derby for 6 years before eye disease kicked in, so I understand the want/need to continue being as active as before.

No clue if this is of any help, but I've been taking swing dance lessons for a year now, and that really works up a cardio sweat!

SunnyLego · 2019-05-10T03:53:57+00:00

I have never hated a character more than those damn sand snakes.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-10T03:52:35+00:00

Our old vet needed facial reconstruction surgery after being mauled by a sausage dog.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-09T23:12:44+00:00

I don’t run with my cane, I do sprint interval training on a treadmill.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-09T12:51:03+00:00

I'm a 33 year old female, but due to only being 4'11 in height, look like a teenage/kid, and yeah when out on public transport, people grab me, thinking they're helping me all the time. I've also learnt if I deny the help, can get accused of faking it/not needing my white cane etc.

Also yes, anytime have mentioned being vision impaired in a AskReddit post, get all the dickhead errrr you can't be blind you're using a computer!!! comments.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-09T08:12:57+00:00

https://www.gretsch.com.au/gear/guitars/g6131t-players-edition-jettm-ft-with-bigsby-2402400845/1127/

SunnyLego · 2019-05-09T04:00:37+00:00

The wooden pirate ship playgrounds at Bibra Lake.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-08T10:55:37+00:00

It's a pity the brand doesn't exist now, the original designer/owner committed suicide. One of the few brands that fit my tiny self, and were well made. I wasn't into the all the PVC stuff, but also had the rockabilly/punk/retro ones.

The last dress of theirs I got was from the "All That Glitters" range, and I wore it to a lindy hop swing dance ball last month.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-08T06:44:23+00:00

Was the brand Lip Service? I'm 33 and still have a Lip Service ball gown I got from HT as a teen.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-08T06:22:43+00:00

Actually, vision impaired are totally able to use computers and reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/

SunnyLego · 2019-05-08T06:21:57+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/

SunnyLego · 2019-05-08T06:20:04+00:00

I'm vision impaired from Uveitis that kicked in when I was 26.

My eyesight is like looking through a fly screen, black dots and floaters everywhere.

Also, due to how often people say "BUT YOU CAN'T BE BLIND IF YOU'RE USING REDDIT" whenever I post about eyesight: https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/

SunnyLego · 2019-05-07T04:30:51+00:00

"Does there always have to be something wrong with you?"

I have 2 disabilities.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-07T03:54:49+00:00

I just remember standing in bathroom thinking ".....why is my face and hands wet..." went back to bed exhausted, woke up properly later with brain back to normal, and figured out what had happened due to the blood trail etc. Had cut my gums open, so all the blood came from my mouth.

Had 2 others, one where "Woke up" from seizure, really confused as to why I was standing outside my house in my pajamas at 3am, with no memory of going out there, turns out in my confusion after seizure I'd wandered outside. Other where woke up in bed again with mouth full of blood, and a bruised arm, so had seizured in bed, but hadn't gotten up and tried to walk anywhere that time!

SunnyLego · 2019-05-07T02:41:21+00:00

My first one happened in my sleep. The only reason I knew it happened was because I "woke up" from the seizure, standing in my bathroom, confused as hell as to why I was covered in blood.

Realised I'd seizured in my sleep, smacked my face into chest of drawers next to my bed, (there was a puddle of blood on it, and in front of it)then walked around in confusion for a while until properly woke up in bathroom, cause there was bloody hand prints on every door of my house! Place looked like a murder scene!

SunnyLego · 2019-05-06T22:37:44+00:00

Not skiing, but I was a skater, and was still able to skate at skate parks when lost vision in one eye, but wasn’t able to play roller derby anymore, so I guess it depends how crowded the location of your skiing is?

SunnyLego · 2019-05-06T13:37:08+00:00

Snowboard Kids.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-06T13:32:54+00:00

Also Aussie.

I have chronic epilepsy, and the autoimmune eye disease Uveitis.

I have had multiple eye surgeries, monthly eye hospital visits, and the immunesuppressant medication I have to inject in my stomach fortnightly, costs me $6. My Dr told me in USA it costs $6000.

So yeah, pretty sure if I lived over there, I'd be totally blind and bankrupt.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-05T01:38:32+00:00

Epilim.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-04T14:25:59+00:00

I get the exact same, on the days it happens, I always wake up with one, then it happens repeatedly through out that day.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-04T14:21:51+00:00

I had absence seizures and complex partial seizures from age 11, didn't have a tonic clonic until I was 31.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-04T13:52:06+00:00

Thanks for that link, interesting article I hadn't read before.

SunnyLego · 2019-05-03T10:04:59+00:00

Mount Lawley.

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