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What’s your favorite thing about being blind? (self.Blind)
submitted by payown
I think mine would be that in this day and age nothing is impossible.
That’s been true forever, but nowadays, you can summon a vehicle to your door with the tap of the finger (or two taps), from the device in your pocket that everyone else in the world can use as well.
You don’t have to purchase specialized equipment just to be on the same playing field as your stated counterparts.
And everything excluding independently driving is pretty much on an equal playing field.
What is it can be made.
That’s been true forever, but nowadays, you can summon a vehicle to your door with the tap of the finger (or two taps), from the device in your pocket that everyone else in the world can use as well.
You don’t have to purchase specialized equipment just to be on the same playing field as your stated counterparts.
And everything excluding independently driving is pretty much on an equal playing field.
What is it can be made.
fastfinge 12 points 5y ago
My favourite thing has to be getting used to TTS for reading ebooks. I can read quicker, for longer, while doing more other things, than a sighted person. If I had to either stare at the screen the entire time, or settle for audiobooks, I think I'd go crazy.
Amonwilde 8 points 5y ago
Yeah I'd say this is my one big plus. I used to dream about walking around while reading when I was a kid (was a weird kid) and now I can using TTS.
fastfinge 4 points 5y ago
So did I! But those were back in the days of Windows 98, and almost no affordable portable reading devices on the market. For Christmas that year, I got one of those old RF wireless headsets I could connect to my computer. Best. Gift. Ever. Now I could start my computer reading, and walk around the entire house! I was an extremely happy pre-teen.
Now I feel discontented if I have to turn my phone off for ten minutes while the airplane lands. How far we've come.
Now I feel discontented if I have to turn my phone off for ten minutes while the airplane lands. How far we've come.
payown [OP] 3 points 5y ago
Hey, I think I had that type of Christmas to once! It was like freedom, invigorating!… And now I’m talking to you leveraging dictation from my iPhone. I’m remembering how cool it was to have an FM receiver in my headphones, now I can listen to radio stations across the world from a nap
fastfinge 2 points 5y ago
Yeah! Did you ever get one of those little fm transmitters you could plug into your computer, and then listen on any fm radio? Those were cool too back in the day.
payown [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Shit! I know a lot of people who don’t even pull their phones out of their pocket to use it! Well, they also don’t have iPhone X either…
payown [OP] 3 points 5y ago
Completely agree, it’s impressive how much as a person who relies just on his ears I consume via voice. One of my friends on Facebook the other day was posting because he was happy that he was able to listen to a book at 1.5 X, as I pause my book I was listening to at 2.5x while reading his Facebook post with voiceover, I think, wow it’s impressive how fast we can listen actually!
intimatebadthoughts 1 points 5y ago
I'm just a random seeing person being curious and clueless - if you don't mind: what's the difference between an audiobook and text-to-speech? What makes an audiobook something you (or the commenter above you) doesn't want to be stuck with but TTS a godsend? Isn't TTS essentially the same thing?
Asadicat 8 points 5y ago
My fave? Blaming my Marty Feldman-esque expression on my partial-sightedness when I'm in fact rather high.
LarryWren 2 points 5y ago
Hahaha... that's awesome.
payown [OP] 1 points 5y ago
But so convenient.
payown [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Shhh don’t reveal my secrets
awesomesaucesaywhat 2 points 5y ago
Guide dogs and university tuition
payown [OP] 2 points 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by university tuition, I have something like $60,000 in debt! But… Guide dogs are a pretty damn good thing! I love my lab.
awesomesaucesaywhat 2 points 5y ago
Aw man! There are programs that help pay tuition, some are private and some are by states.
payown [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Now isn’t that interesting… I have to do a bit of research I think…
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