Toph is awesome but I take the position that she's one of those blind characters who isn't really blind, same with daredevil. Writers seem to work on the basis the only way these people can have proper involvement with the story is to give them some sort of nice easy way out. Yeah, okay, sometimes Toph gets a wrestling belt in the face or asks someone what's on a piece of paper, but it seems to be calculated so that she gets to be blind enough to have all those cute moments, but not so blind it really stops her doing anything. For the sake of comparison I'm blind and I don't have special powers and it does stop me doing things.

I think the closest I've come to a blind character I actually liked was Murphy Mason from In the Dark. There were a minimum of cringe moments, all down to the writing not the acting, and she had a decently hedonistic attitude. The fact she isn't some sort of perfect angel is great. They show her doing stuff that I feel like a lot of people couldn't do, like going to some apartment block where she's never been before and somehow finding someone's place on her own, but her attitude is generally pretty spot on.

I’ve actually not read books with actual blind characters so I don’t know but interesting.... so don’t know. But besides clasics I read a lot more nonfiction so yeah.

Should I feel like I'm not a true blind person if I haven't heard of some of these characters?