usually, just impatience. So little of how people describe things relates to any of my experience that I just let people ramble on for the sake of politeness.

I can imagine what beautiful pink flowers look like, because I've seen them in the past. Yes in the increasingly dim and distant past, and I am not sure any more if my memories are that accurate, but at least some people will have those memories. People who lose their sight even a bit younger than me almost always seem to lose their memories of it and I think I might be quite unusual. People I know were told to talk about what the world looks like when it first happened, with the idea that I would retain some memory of visual stuff. I hated it at the time, but it has apparently worked because I have. That's not something I want to lose, it makes me a whole lot more normal, so I am quite happy to talk about things visually.

Usually, something along the lines of "did I remember to pay my rent this month?". I mean, I get the idea behind it, but other than giving me an approximate idea of how things are supposed to go together visually (which, believe it or not, has helped me a great deal when I was more involved in the RPG scene), it really has no relevance to me. I've never seen, I will never see, so have nothing to compare with. Most people who know me well just skip it, though. Same reason.

I was sighted till I started losing my sight. I have light and some shadow perception. I cannot remember a lot visually. But in my head I seem to have patterns and shapes that will mold into what I'm being told. I prefer actually touching and experiencing what im being told. Of course not everything can.

I have a brain disorder called low latent inhibition which greatly impacts on my imagination and creativity and more processing.

“If I hear someone point out an ‘it’ or a ‘that’ and make me ask what they are on about one more time I’m taking what ever it is and shoving it so far up their ass they cough it up.” Thats how I feel when people do the whole ‘Thats nice.’ Or ‘It looks lovely.’ And I ether ignore it and get accused of being too quiet or I have to ask what they mean and I feel forced to encourage a really bad habit. It feels like my lack of sight is being used to make me talk to someone.

Another one is “Stop poring your feelings into your descriptions because I’m not you and I think differently so your description of godly isn’t my idea of something I’d like.” People tend to use their feelings too much like describing something as ‘pretty’ or ‘lovely’ or ‘godly’ with some people or ‘disgusting’ when talking about clothes I actually like. Just discernible the damn things!

Oh and the best one “Your saying this outfit covered in gap branding I can feel and yes it’s gap is grey toned but I know you and your love of blue and forcing things on people. I don’t trust you.” You describe something wrong to a blind person once and they find out you’ve lost that trust forever.

The best ones for describing things are secret super geeks and writers and readers. Anyone who has to show people their vision without pictures like professional writers, non professional writers, fanfic writers, even the super geeky of the geeky the role players all get practice at doing this. Readers are used to a format where you have to get a picture of the world from purely words. Thats what turns an ‘It’ into ‘A red, short, glittery dress.’

It's not the sighted person's fault I cannot see the tree. If I want to know how it looks, I'll touch it. And if I need or want a description I'll ask for it. Yeah, some people suck at giving descriptions, but I can ask questions regarding the tree. If I cannot get a sense of their description, I'll try calling Aira and they have trained agents that are available to describe.

Depends on who is describing the object. I try to put things together in my head so if someone doesn’t describe things well, either because they are not observant or because they don’t have the words, it annoys me. It’s kind of like being really hungry and being surrounded by perfectly grilled ribeyes that you can’t eat. I want more!

On the other hand there’s someone like my wife who is a published author and relishes in describing all of the details which is awesome because I can paint a picture in my head. She also constantly gestures with her hands while talking to me as if I can see what she’s doing which is absolutely hilarious but that’s another story.

I would rather feel something any day but if I am curious and I can’t feel it I am thankful for descriptions.

I was explaining to my friends earlier that I try to put everything together as puzzle pieces.

If I was imagining the tree: the bark, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the roots, the fruit, the sap, would all be separate pieces that together make the word tree.

I’m not blind but I grew up with blind people around. Usually I try to make the descriptions interactive and include the person in my description process.

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