What do you like the most about being blind? And what do you hate the most?

who the heck drives at 13?

my teachers ex wifes son apparently

Can't believe some of y'all are so surprised that in certain places, the laws are different than where you are :D
Though a driving licence at 13 sounds very irresponsible.

right? Someone with that licence could just reck a hole bunch of vehicles and call it a day and you know what happens from there

I find it easier not to judge people by their appearance and don't have problem with scrolling idiotic reels and photos on socials because i don't do it.
It's only thing which i like. I hate everything else.

I hate the assumption that my blindness is an integral part of my identity. By that I mean that it is often assumed that it is a lens through which I view myself, as if I thought of myself as a member of the blindy tribe and were first and foremost invested in advancing the interests of said tribe. That, and the assumption that I see myself as somehow being in solidarity with the disabled community at large. It should go without saying that I wholeheartedly reject all such nonsense.

tbh I don't understand why people ask questions like, "What do you like about being blind?" or say there are good things about being blind.
there's nothing inherently good about being blind or having a disability.

there is. You won't have to look at ugly people.
-- (khalil2009):
tbh I don't understand why people ask questions like, "What do you like about being blind?" or say there are good things about being blind.
there's nothing inherently good about being blind or having a disability.
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And for anyone that doesn't realise, that was a joke.

I get your point. This is my argumentation why I think thingslike the disabillity pride month are nonsense. But you can't just go through your life only spreading negativity. I'm not a fan of these, find something positive in everything people, but I think this exchange is rather, what advantages do you sometimes get, have, or consider as an advantage for you you get or is related to your blindness. Of course we can all agree we wouldn't want to have it, but well, gotta cope with it, so not talking about it is bad as well. It won't help us to only be negative about it.
-- (khalil2009):
tbh I don't understand why people ask questions like, "What do you like about being blind?" or say there are good things about being blind.
there's nothing inherently good about being blind or having a disability.
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o of corse, but pretending there's good things about it is trivial

I guess a good thing that has come from it is that a lot of us know more than sighted people about different speech synthesizers like DECTalk, Eloquence and so on.

Well, what's good about it? Sighted don't have to know. If they wanted, they could be as nerdy and even more than us about it, but they don't have to.

Yup, that's a bad thing about being blind. All those people speech synthesizer obsessed it's not even fun to talk about even so slightly.
Sighted friends are so much better in so many ways, and I'd rather adapt as much as I can.
And I do not feel like I need to cope with being blind tbh, I just accept it.
-- (alchappers):
I guess a good thing that has come from it is that a lot of us know more than sighted people about different speech synthesizers like DECTalk, Eloquence and so on.
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not everyone is obsessed with it, some people just use the bare minimum. Samantha compact on the iPhone for example... and at either 50% or higher even.

on that note, aren't there some people that mostly use the sapi4 microsoft sam on a daily basis or the old eloquence just so that people can crash it with the dreaded u**osp... Glad to be using IBM, I don't need my NVDA being crashed with half a billion crash codes.

To be honest I think I'd prefer to know how to get from my house to somewhere I need to be by car independantly if it were a choice between that and knowing when eloquence was released. Just my opinion though
-- (alchappers):
I guess a good thing that has come from it is that a lot of us know more than sighted people about different speech synthesizers like DECTalk, Eloquence and so on.

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@56 what does this have to do with the topic at hand?

nothing, we just started talking about synths apparently, also to @57 aren't there things like public transport stops that 1 can go to?

who tf is we