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If you want to help the blind, blindfolding yourself isn’t the answer (nfb.org)
submitted by craig4nr
claudettemonet 2 points 6y ago
Indeed
Rickard0 1 points 6y ago
> If you want to help the blind, blindfolding yourself isn’t the answer
Unless you post a selfie while your blindfolded.
Unless you post a selfie while your blindfolded.
Fournote 1 points 6y ago
I think it depends on how you go about it. On my channel I made a video of me doing French press coffee with my eyes closed. I took care to mention that others are much more capable as me because I didn't have any training and I wasn't used to doing everything by touch. I iterated the fact that, while I felt helpless and inept, people used to doing things without sight don't feel that way, and I conveyed my respect for their abilities, not pity for their disability.
claudettemonet 1 points 6y ago
Still not helpful.. idk why you were doing it. Me, I just don't turn on more lights around my own house at night to practice for my impending loss of vision. That's helpful to ONLY me. I suck at navigation. How would me, who has NO adaptive skills, making coffee with a french press and my eyes closed actually help anyone? Sorry to be a bitch, but truth is, I am one. I'm calling bs. Don't ask me why I am being cantankerous and picking a fight, I just am. Sorry r/blind.
Fournote 1 points 6y ago
Honestly? The reason I did it initially was that someone with visual impairment challenged me to do an everyday task without the use of vision. A few people I talked to were actually looking forward to seeing me do it.
claudettemonet 1 points 6y ago
Also, I feel like it is the why not the how that is important here. So yeah. You have friends who wanted to see you try your hand at it. That's fair. The emphasis on how pc and respectful you were in the video is less important than the reason for doing it to begin with. In fact, if you were irreverent and sarcastic that would have been fine too if the why behind it is good. So I retract my cantankerous bitchitude.
claudettemonet 1 points 6y ago
Fair enough.
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