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2026-07-10 22:40 UTC

@ZBennoui@dragonscave.space For me it was the exact opposite. I went to a normal school till 1th grade and I was from 8th grade on completely socialy isolated because when puberty kicked in, my former friends realized that it was much more effective to pick on the blind guy as he was less likely to strike back. If I went to Blista school from let’s say 8th grade I would probably have been saved from a lot of mental trouble and on the other side went through some of the cool things Blista has to offer. We also have some students with other disabilities and behavior problems, how ever we have a lot of spaces and you don’t need to be in a room with them all the time if you don’t want to. How ever on Blista these are a minority, we have some blind schools in Germany as we’ll though that are struggling to get students and so they have more of them.

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@jonathan859@someplace.social 2026-07-11 05:14

@randomfelix@dragonscave.space @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space I had a pretty good time from 1st to 7th grade, socially. Teachers were mostly crap, but if we only look at the social side, it was good. And well then, I was isolated until 10th grade. But I agree with Zach: if I had not been at a public school, I wouldn't have the character and self-confidence I have now. Sure, the time wasn't nice, but I've learned a lot and was exposed to things that were hard but perhaps useful later. In 9th grade, inclusion and the bad teachers became so bad that I considered switching to a school for the blind in the next city (BBS Nürnberg, for the Germans). What I saw there in one week was honestly ridiculous. Of course, it was sort of nice to not be "special" in that sense, but literally on the first day there was some super weird girl who apparently had the reputation of being sexually attracted to half the school or something, talking to me and asking me out? Or whatever she was trying to achieve there. The stuff they taught was too easy for me too. I would've just been even more bored. TL;DR, I think this is something very subjective, but I can say I didn't feel well there. And I wouldn't want to go to Marburg and live in a dorm there, where your blindness becomes, like, the entire point in some ways.

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