As with all motivational speakers, I'm apathetic.

I think anyone who has a disability acting as a motivational speaker is on a fine line that falls between maybe helping people get motivated and embodying the "inspirational disabled person" stereotype.

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I feel like it's all in how a speaker approaches the topic. I don't need a motivational speaker to talk me up because my eyesight has me feeling blue, I need a motivational speaker to go "Hey, you wanna go work out and hang?" or whatever and encourage me to do good things for myself that have absolutely nothing to do with my vision. So, you know, the same stuff that a lot of people need motivation for.

I don't really care for motivational speakers. I think that you actually have to have done something that most people would not do to even be considered motivational. Hence I would find someone who climbed Mount Kilamanjaro inspirational; I would not find someone who dropped out of high school and eventually formed a charity not inspirational. The former is far less common than the latter.

If people get something out of motivational speakers, blind or otherwise, then more power to them. I don't really enjoy them much personally, but I understand the appeal and that they do help some people.

Let them do them

I have absolutely no interest in motivational speakers since I've never lacked the motivation to reach my goals, what I have lacked now and ever since I went totally blind is the comfort and true independence provided by vision which form the basis for quality of life in my opinion.

The blind motivational speakers I'v known failed their actual career path. That can't be a gig that pays all that well either.

Blind or not wouldn't matter to me. Are you a good motivational speaker with effective, practical methods and techniques, or are you pitching feel-good-fluff?

I'm indifferent.