Obviously I mean total blindness and not legally blindness, where some vision can still be there.
Lemmings that know a blind person can also pitch in.
You might want to check out Tommy Edison on YouTube. Great fella. Blind since birth. Has answered most of the questions anyone has ever had for a blind person in his many videos. I don’t know him, per se, but I do know of him, so I hope that counts.
I seem to remember that he thinks of vision as being like a superpower, being able to know that someone or something is over at a distance without having to directly interact.
(Forgive the joke, I actually really fucking hate that braille is dying in public spaces as well as people no longer knowing what those cane guides in pavement are for)
Just as an aside, I tried to find some braille stickers for my keyboard. Figured it would cost 5$ or something. I could not find them anywhere. I thought surely this would be a thing on Ali Express. Nope.
I ended up buying some textured stickers that had a unique feeling, but there goes my attempt at learning braille
Make your own?
“Braille Labeler - Braille Tape, Embosser”
Huh… I never thought of that…
Quick robin, to the internet cave!
It would be good to add alt text to this image. You can do it by adding it inside the square brackets.
There’s more blind folks over on Mastodon, particularly on https://dragonscave.space/ .
Maybe we can lure some of them over here, though, by using one of these: #blind
