For ease of use, I'm just posting the smart link to the full audio podcast here, which should open in either Spotify, Apple Podcasts of Google Podcasts depending on what device you are using: $1. Lucy is really a lot of fun!

Screw insperation. If people want to be inspired, they can read Langston Hughes or some other brilliant poet. I will just have fun in the mean time.

I do totally get the inspiration porn thing and I have always been brutally upfront about the fact that I don't love being blind. The second people start using phrases like "social model," though, my head starts to meet the desk. Yes there is something wrong with me. I can't see, practically everyone else can and if I walked into every situation working on the basis that any issues I encounter are everyone else's problem to solve, I think I would spend a lot of time feeling really helpless. I also think everyone else would soon get pissed off with me pushing my problems onto them.

When I talk to people who have recently hit the situation Lucy was in I have always pushed very very hard for maximum self reliance because the world is not set up for you and realistically it's never going to be, much as we can and should push for that. My problems are mine to solve and I will solve them. If someone asked me if I could feed myself I wouldn't get angry or sad. I'd laugh.