how do you guys feel about disclosing blindness in casual environments.
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King Tripple Whopper
No issues disclosing my disability/blindness!
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Chef Jack
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Chef Jack
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Blue Blaze
I don’t have no problem telling people my blindness I have glaucoma there you go
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Ana 🐺 🏳️🌈 🤘 ⚔️
Oh, I will absolutely disclose my blindness immediately because what am I supposed to do? Am I really supposed to wait for a couple of days or weeks and then they leave after I disclose it? Better to make fake people go away before it’s too late. Besides, I am not ashamed of the fact that I’m blind, and I will talk about it proudly.
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Chrysalis
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Dannotations
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Alicia Krage
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The Blind tech motivator
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Kareem
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Chef Jack
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Harmony Finder
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TERRANCE SADLER
As I've mentioned in previous threads that relate to THIS is that I PUBLICLY INVADE the perhaps utter bliss that those of the PARTICULARLY 2020-sighted that are DELIBERATELY IGNORANT who view the fact that I'm ESPECIALLY TOTALLY BLIND as resulting, according to THEM, ONLY, as that I "CAN'T" see, with the ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE RESULT of my visual status as such is ONLY DUE to, NOT ONLY MY NEVER NEEDING to, INSTEAD, but ULTIMATELY NOONE ELSE'S, GLOBALLY, INCLUDING THEIRS, of which they're INESCAPABLY AWARE of, much to their horror.
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Sky pilot 77
In the main, I don't have any problem with it, but the exception is dating websites or dating chat rooms. As a man I find that most women will just shut you down if they find out your blind. So I try to get them to know me first before I disclose my situation.
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Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
Disclosed? How can it be hidden? My advice would be to just go about your daily activity in life and if to have if you have to use certain tools and people who are blind use then demonstrate them in a video to your friends or those you’re see you know just do your day-to-day things they’re going to find out that you’re blind anyway. It’s not going to be a big deal unless you make it a big deal. If they can’t accept, you’re being blind, they’re not worthy to be your roommate. So there’s no need to make a mountain out of a mole here. And most of what they will be concerned about is your own attitude toward blindness. So if it doesn’t bother you, most likely it won’t bother them.
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Rachel
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TERRANCE SADLER
NEVER SAYING that ALL of us do this, but there are those of us within the blind community that BOTH KNOWINGLY and UNKNOWINGLY paint a figurative picture of blindness as EXACTLY what the "WILLFULLY IGNORANT SIGHT-SHMUCKS claim it as, a "DISABILITY," "HANDICAP," and WHATEVER ELSE of such falsehood descriptions of their ilk "infestivities," if you will, by SAYING such is so, ACCORDINGLY, which is EXACTLY WHAT THESE WORTHLESS SHIT-WAD MORONS DEMAND that ALL of us that are PARTICULARLY "TOTALS" to ACTUALLY SAY, VERBALLY and DEMONSTRATIVELY, ALIKE, when ALL that blindness ACCURATELY DEFINES is that of NO MORE or LESS than a mere "VISUALITY STATUS, POINT-BLANK.
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Artemis
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TERRANCE SADLER
What I'VE observationally discovered during my over 42 years of independent traveling, which I either might or might not have ALSO pointed out in previous threads, is that there are those within the 2020-sighted-willfully-ignorant-trashpile of useless shit that are (my just-now-made-up word) "EQUALIPHOBIC" of US, simply meaning that the ABSOLUTELY INDISPUTABLE REALITY of US who are as much THEIR equal as they're OURS is EXACTLY "SUPERMAN-CRIPTONITIC" to them, so of COURSE, as "THOUGHTFULLY CONSIDERATE" of such as THEIR "SELF-INDULGED MISFORTUNE" as I'll ALWAYS be of these "POOR DARLINGS (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)," I'd EVER SO "KINDLY" EQUAL with THEM, AGGRESSIVELY, AGAINST THEIR WILL, ALWAYS.
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TERRANCE SADLER
The ONLY REASON that I have for using my "INTERFUNCTIONALLY EQUALING" with the general sighted public as a VICIOUS WEAPON against those that are of the ilk as above-mentioned is SIMPLY BECAUSE I CAN, whether I'm "ALLOWED" to or NOT.
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Missy
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TERRANCE SADLER
I ALWAYS let ESPECIALLY WOMEN that are on relationships-geared platforms, phone/web/apps, etc. who COULD be 2020-sighted, know in my public-posted bio that I'm totally blind since birth, though MY WAY of WORDING such DELIBERATELY ANTAGONIZES the ilk that you already know that I ALWAYS LOOK DOWN ON, SNEER AT, and MERCILESSLY MOCK, when I say that I'm "FULL-FUNCTIONALLY NONVISUAL, with 0%-vision since birth," and YES, there ACTUALLY WERE WOMEN that I've HIGHLY OFFENDED in this manner, who've ACTUALLY REMARKED of how "SOCIALLY INCONSIDERATE" I am for sounding as though I'm NOT HANDICAPPED, which IMMEDIATELY TRIGGERS MY "TKO-RESPONSE at them of the "DIRECTLY-IN-THEIR-FACE-FACT" that they "MANIACALLY HATE" of my "SOUNDING SO," as THEY'D put it, that's OBVIOUSLY due to the TOTALLY UNMISTAKEN REALITY which PERFECTLY VERIFIES that I'm NOT, MAINLY, if not SOLELY DUE to THEIR self-invented "HANDICAP" of NEEDING ALL of 2020-sight to be as FUNCTIONAL as I am, WITHOUT ANY (TO BE CONTINUED)
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TERRANCE SADLER
of such that CERTAINLY would've robbed me of ALL of the TOTALLY UNLIMITED FREEDOM that I DO HAVE, CURRENTLY if I was JUST AS SIGHTED, and AS NEEDY of such that I could've CONJURED UP, MYSELF, as THEY, PITY THEM, of course.
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Chef Jack
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TERRANCE SADLER
Of COURSE, THAT'S EXACTLY NOT what I'm saying, nor would that EVER be what I'll say, NEITHER, because what I AM saying is that I, as a TOTALLY NONVISUAL, with 0% vision all my life, which is ABSOLUTELY NO MORE of an IMPAIRMENT/DISABILITY/HANDICAP/WHATEVER-OTHER-BULLSHIT-SIGHTY-SLUR-SHIT-TROUGH TRASH, IMAGINABLE, ONLY, than ESPECIALLY TOTAL SIGHT would be, have the TOTALLY UNLIMITED FREEDOM, NEVER to be ALWAYS DEPENDENT ON, or NEVER to be ALWAYS INDEPENDENT WITHOUT, but ALWAYS (HERE'S a term that seems to ALMOST NEVER be used) to be "INTERDEPENDENT WITH," as I've ALWAYS been, ALL of the general sighted, whether the unfortunately co-existent "ILK" of whom like it or not.
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Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
Terrence, you sound like a character out of a Charlotte Brontë novel. Can’t you express yourself with fewer words? I think it would make it easier to understand you if you did so.
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Rachel
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TERRANCE SADLER
Jim and Rachel, my ONLY FOCUS is PRECISION, NOT CONCISION, although there MIGHT be a way to EQUALLY BALANCE the two of them, but THAT'S a skill that I DON'T have, and if there's ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to EVER KNOW if whether or not this collaboration gives the SAME TYPE of satisfaction that ONLY PRECISION delivers at ALL TIMES, ON TIME, EVERY TIME, it's CERTAINLY one of such that I'd NEVER WANT.
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Rachel
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TERRANCE SADLER
I CERTAINLY don't MEAN to--it's just that when I'm after getting my own way, like the socially immature person that I'm SUPER-STEROIDS-GLAD that I AM, I'll use ALMOST "ANY TRICK in the BOOK" to get it.
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King Tripple Whopper
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BostonBeanStalk
Hey there. For me, I’d have to say that I’m pretty comfortable disclosing my blindness to people. When I was a teenager and young adult, I did whatever I could to pass as sighted. But as my vision worsened, I realized I couldn’t really hide it anymore, so over time I became comfortable with the fact that I was losing my vision. That said, I can also understand the vulnerability that comes with putting that information out there, especially when you’re a blind woman looking for a roommate. At the same time, I think I’d probably want to know in advance if the person responding to my roommate search had a disability. For example, if I’m a blind person looking for a roommate and a deaf person showed up without mentioning it beforehand, it might throw me off a little at first. Of course, there would be ways around it, and we could always text to communicate. I guess I’d just rather know ahead of time.
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