Having read $1, a few things happened that quickly soured the conversation:

* You asked something that gets posted frequently between here, r/askreddit and other similar subreddits. It got bad enough over on r/askreddit that there's an AutoModerator string just to remind people that blind people can use computers and a direct link to our FAQ. When r/blind has to put up multiple pinned posts just to address how VI/blind people use Reddit and the proper way to harvest uncredited research data (and doesn't get read by people who can allegedly read more easily than us (add a lol here if you think it helps)), it's understandable why people here can get frustrated when yet another person asks the same thing yet again. It's like driving a bus and having a different kid ask "Are we there yet?" every quarter-mile and then they get confused when the driver gets angry. Sure, "they" only asked once and most of them can readily see out their window, but they did it anyway.
* It was phrased in the third person "How do blind people \_\_\_\_" as opposed to the typical second person "How do you \_\_\_". That often leads into the assumption that VI/blind people are incapable of answering for themselves and can only rely on third parties to act on their behalf (refer to bullet one). This is another stereotype that frequently comes up when people ask vision-related questions, which means more time has to be set aside to address it "again" before the actual question. It doesn't help that many users use such lead-ins for trolling or poorly-informed jokes, which often gets moderated as Spam or Harassment.
* " Of course those who are currently blind cant really answer" covers both points one and two. There was a link that led to the subreddit that gave the information you were looking for. Most of your replies from that point felt increasingly confrontational. It was less r/askreddit and more r/AmItheAsshole. By then, things broke down "again".

If you reached this point without skipping, I hope this helped you out. If you're looking for a TL;DR - started a conversation on bad assumptions, doubled down when provided info to the contrary, convo broke down. Not the first time, probably not the last. I'm sorry to hear things didn't go well, but I hope you find this useful for the future.

P.S. Personally, I like listening to podcasts, tabletop gaming (online because of COVID), and "watching" movies with descriptive audio tracks. I have some experience with video games but not nearly as much as I did when I was younger.

Ignorant: lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about a particular thing. The word "ignorant" is an adjective that describes a person in the state of being unaware, or even cognitive dissonance and other cognitive relation, and can describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts, or individuals who are unaware of important information or facts.

You didn't know some things about blind people, and your lack of knowledge happened to result in you saying some things that mildly upset people. This doesn't make you a bad person, but it does mean thag you were ignorant.

Honestly, the question has been asked so many times, it's gotten old. I answered your question over there, by the way, about what I do for fun. And as I commented on your other post, yes, there are blind people on Reddit, and everywhere else online. I hope by now you've looked up screen readers and have a better understanding of how we use computers.

I think it's hard for so many of us to keep getting asked the same old tired questions over and over. For you, your curiocity is new. Perhaps your sight is a huge part of your life. I wager most of the sighted world, values its sight above all other senses, and moreover many can't fathom living without it. But the truth is, the only things keeping us from ever having a fullfilling life are the limiters imposed upon us by the a world not set up for sightlessness. I myself don't generally get bothered by people asking. So I will anser.

I'm a writer, composer, voice actor and sound designer specializing in audio drama production. I use a screen reader called NVDA (non-visual Desktop Access) on my PC and Voiceover, another screen reader available on any Apple device. I also have residual vision as I was born without developed optic nerves, so I am able to use inverted colors and magnification for some things too. I also love video games — particularly narrative driven ones. While I am slow at them, and while I do use walkthroughs to ensure I don't miss things, I can play them and have been doing so since 1989. I will continue to do so until gameplay surpasses my ability, something which seems more likely with each passing game generation. (I do plan to eventually get a PS5 once it's been out for a while. I use what vision I have, along with pairing my PS4 to my PC using Remote Play and using my NVDA screen reader to take screen captures of any in-game text. if it's well-contrasted with the background NVDA will read it for me. I can read visually, but I'm very slow at it in comparrison.

I hope that answers both your questions.

We do get asked the same questions a lot of the time, however there's an easy way we could make them stop without snapping at people: just don't answer them if you don't want to. It isn't ignorant to ask about that sort of thing if you intend to start a conversation rather than just collecting survey responses. I think a lot of people are just tired of people who think that the sub is designed to provide a free community of survey respondents.

Hi, totally blind 29 year old here. I play some games through Zanosoft's RS Games, the Amazon Alexa, and Quentin C's Playroom. However, I also love to read, love walking with my friends out in nature, love watching TV and movies in described video, like to karaoke, cook twice or thrice a week, and liked finding plays or concerts to see back when those were allowed.

You're fine, I don't think people should get do worked up, or if they do they shouldn't post about it. Yes we get asked a lot.

To answer your question, I had normal sight until I was 19 then went completely blind and for fun I go running, to the gym when there is no virus, I play musical instruments, do judo, cook (I literally just made cupcakes) and movies... look up audio description. And of course there's the all time favourite, having a lie in and spending the day lounging about eating cupcakes.

Mainly it's about the cupcakes to be honest.

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I think people just overreact and can be kind of silly honestly. And get grumpy.

I happen to be totally blind since 8 and before that couldn’t write home about my vision. It was always fairly bad.

I am a typology self-development nerd. One of the only ones it seems on this sub and besides here frequent r/mbti r/socionics r/attitudinalpsyche r/mbtitheory r/jungiantypology I have read a lot of the typology theory books as well and take it seriously would be cool to get certified. The russian certification is really difficult for blind people but the western stuff shouldn’t be a problem. I am an ESTP by the way if you’re curious and probably lse in r/socionics but could also be sle. I have the characteristic of being pretty friendly and chil but also very assertiv and direct. Generally a very approachable person.

I enjoy tinkering with tech, and audio equipment, I enjoy audiobloging and soundscaping. I have a channel up on youtube where I do typology stuff. I type people and educate and really help them with the western jungian stuff.

I love learning and reading I have an ebook library of about 1000 to 1100 books in apple books and kindle the majority of these nonfiction. Most of them all sorts of nonfiction topics from psychology to philosophy to appologeticcs to history to science to you name it. I enjoy intellectual conversations and debating. These days not so much as people just become emotional and all touchy and feely. So I usually don’t debate.

When the pandemic isn’t happening actually I enjoy exploring the city and traveling around. I love food. And eating the more sensory the better. I like variety novelty of food and lots of flavor. I did the entire yelping or food hunting too go to different places and try the food out know a new restaurant and reviewed it I did this on foursqueare though I found that more accessible then yelp. Yelp is more and more horrible these days haha! I do find yelp helpful but have never managed to submit reviews. I also like coffee shops and stuff.

I like collecting coffees and teas. And having a nice variety of high quality stuff.

I enjoy people interacting and volunteering, I currently greet at my church when I can when my ride situation works out.

I think that’s it.

I would watch out for most blind people. Pun intended. Most of them have this offended culture. It’s a shame really. But I can assure you that there are those of us who are willing to answer your questions

No. I think the person who responded wasn't blind at all.

Well I'm not fully blind, I play video games, audio games and watch anime. Other than that nothing :D.

So many snowflakes on this subreddit. Don’t take it personally lol that’s why I don’t post here anymore because every reply to someone being curious is just someone being bitter. Kind of sums up a lot of other blind or partially blind folks I meet. Fuck then, hence why I don’t make friends with them lmao