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Weird James
Man this sounds very stereotypically Internet, where the most pedantic voices rise to the top. And we’re diagnoses are given out instead of empathy.
Dannotations
Armchair diagnosing happens and has been happening for as long as I've been alive, so I don't think it's specific to younger adult groups. In social psychology there's something called heuristics or mental shortcuts that help us understand the world. I haven't spent much time in real life with other blind people so I wouldn't know why positive attitudes about blindness are frowned upon by some. Maybe they take or suspect this type of positivity as not real or forced.
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Dannotations
I've never been on Reddit, but I know in social media, people like to share only good things about their lives and this creates the impression that their living the perfect life. I'm not saying this is what you're doing, but maybe since the people criticizing you don't seem to know you, it's what they're concluding about you. The few blind people that I've been around, especially when I was adapting to blindness, were always a source of encouragement. Even when I could do things that they could not, I would focus on their strengths and try to build myself up to their confidence in those areas. I still try to do that.
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