Hello /r/Blind!


For ten years now, I've been fighting for my disability approval. It's been a living hell. I spend most of my time in front of the computer, listening to audiobooks, playing the few games I can, and wait on the off-chance that I will have a future.


I have advanced keratoconus, so I deal with multiple blurred fractured images of anything I look at. The case was advanced before it was even caught, and scleral lenses could not correct the vision comfortably. Gas permeable lenses and smaller hard overlays were too difficult from the curve of my cornea. I was finally diagnosed as blind earlier this year, and as of today, I'm finally going to get the assistance I need to live.


The burning question is... what now?


I feel like Inigo Montoya. “I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.” I will be able to get out and do things again, which I was not able to do throughout all of my thirties. I plan to start a gaming stream once I figure out how to get all the bells and whistles set up, but I want to get out and have a life. What should I try? Painting things as I see them? Finding a writers' group? Go to orchestral concerts? It's overwhelming. I could use some suggestions.