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2026-04-11 11:57 UTC
@zersiax Thank you for mentioning the part about needing a handrail on stairs. Me too, and I have some usable vision. My orientation and mobility teacher (a sighted man) tried to teach me to do stairs without the handrail. One time when I was in high school, he told me that he had a blind student who was much younger than me, like 8 years old, who could do stairs much faster than me. Not sure that was helpful.
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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-04-11 13:02
@zersiax About the whole "inspiring blind person" thing, one time I was at a new karaoke bar; my friend had brought me there. I was doing my first song, one of my usual songs that I had done several times by then. Found out the next day, via the friend that brought me there, that a young man had posted a video of me singing on Facebook, complete with commentary about how I was inspiring because I was blind and rocking out. In fact, that wasn't a particularly strong performance of that song.