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[TW] Do you know someone who is blind?
| She had "eye stroke", so she can't see colors well, purple seems as red to her, she can't recognize people on photos, she can't see TV, cooking is difficult for her, she can't see car front of her etc.. i feel that her vision is like 3 meters radius and only big things. she can see people but she can't recognize us who is who if we don't talk.
| I honestly never meeted with people who are blind before, or this concept well.. except these 2 previous "experiences". First one was real, second was virtual but for sure inspiring to think.. And i just don't know how to process it. I'm finding it more scary than dead.. And being around blind people/concept makes me feel uncanny.. I have similar feeling also around other handicaped people. I just see them, i try being nice/helpful to them, but inside i feel as meeting with "doll".
| I don't want being dick, over that probably i'm over my mindset. I like my grandma, she is really nice, but also i feel as feeling.. It's her? Or it's someone else? How am i supposed to act? When i try to forget about that she is blind, and act as nothing happens, and doing everything transparently, like telling what i do.. She always refer about her blindness, and it's trigger uncanny feeling. I have glaucoma so maybe i will meet with same future in her age.
| When i think about she is blind, my mind is trying to process this concept, it's terribly abstract for me. And i'm thinking about it more than sense around. Trying to thinking how i can help.. But my brain can't just think like.. "she is blind, nothing more, act same as you did act before." But my before me is visual based. I dare to say that images are for communication more important than words. And i'm always observing/showing than actively talking..
| About referring as doll. I have fear from dolls, because my mind is thinking what if they would just wake up? Or humanoid robots which are visually close to human, but, they are not, and they will never be. But somehow i feel around people what are handicaped similar feeling.. specially mentally, (in the meaning of lost inteligence, adult people on level of 6 y.o. child etc., i'm finding depressive people normal) and than body.
| But when i see person missing something.. my brain is trying to process it, and forget about what really see. My grandpa is in bed and can't walk anymore, but he was stopping moving slowly gradually and his body is in whole, and use walker so it's "ok". I didn't play Katawa Shoujo from these reasons. Because it's triggering uncanny feeling too much to me. And my question probably is..
Are you feeling something similar/same? And if yes, how did you found way how to get over it?
| I feel badly by way how i feel/think around them, over that logically it's simple, "they just lost it, and they can't have it back". But my brain is trying to categorize everything, and follow some kind of "norms". Maybe my brain is terribly "conservative" in this way, and is used to daily life experience. But sudden "transformation" of experience which was for years different is just weird for me. I just feel if i came to room where are no tables and everything would be on floor.
| But if i lived by this way, i don't know if i would feel sane. I'm a lot socially liberalistic, i believe that all people have right to do anything. But probably is inside me live idea that all people are follow some kind of norms, and people wouldn't walk outside naked, with vibrator on head and shitting on public toilet without walls and eating dinner while it. Probably everything is bipolar in my mind. But what if it isn't common?
| My mind is mess in this way, you will maybe want going to burn me as witch now. But i have no idea how other people are thinking.. and how they think/react in general to "not" normative things. Over that handicap is normal, natural, and people don't choice it, my brain just can see it as part of normative. And i have no idea why paradoxically me, who is asocial af, having this.. I would being happy for advices
| How is being blind a trigger warning you zoomer garbage
| What warning? What is sad i'm not even zoomer
| >>935339
They're referring to you using the [TW] tag. It usually means "Trigger Warning", which is attached to things that can potentially trigger PTSD. Talking about being blind shouldn't need a trigger warning.
Also my reply to the thread: g/u/rl you think too much.
| Trigger warning for being blind on a text based board. Lmao op has brainrot
| >>935384 ohh i didn't know, sometimes i use them as clickbait xd it's kinda works
>>935481 blind people are kinda scary xd you have brainrot
| Nah, my two blind friends are cool. My boss' daughter is also blind and although she's an angry lesbian, we bond over anime. Idk, if you spend enough time with someone, you don't really notice anything out of the ordinary anymore, cause there is nothing out of the ordinary, ya know? These peepz we're all blind since birth tho, so idk if that changes anything.
| >>935517 what do you mean by angry lesbian? I don't know so much people but i didn't know anyone blind expect these 2 people
| Being mad about a tw is hilarious lol
But, OP, I think you just gotta clean up your mental. Sounds like you got some kinda ableism ingrained in there, probably mixed with some kinda weird fear? Like, seeing people with disabilities as not people or less than other people or whatever just tells me you gotta learn more about and spend more time with people with disabilities. They're just normal ass people. Things are a little harder for them, sure, but nothing they can't handle
| This low-key reminds me how a lot of horror movies and media in general use disabled traits for monster/villain designs to make them seem "less human" or "not human". I guess that works on people who don't go outside, cause I severely doubt that's a normal fear and not one that's been thought
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| I don't want judge these people, they already have difficult life. But how are you feeling around them?
10 years ago i visited "exposition", which happened in night, and blind person was guiding us and there was made fictional scenes as coffee, city road, house etc.. it was small but difficult enough.
year ago i played game Beyond eyes..
And this year.. (half year back) my grandma did become legally blind..