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How do you feel about clothing? (self.Blind)
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AllHarlowsEve 2 points 2y ago
Before I got ill and went blind, I would just buy stuff online without a second thought because I could see how it fit models and the sizes listed on them. Now though, my chest hasn't stopped growing and I can't look at models to see how it's cut on people with more reasonable chests so dresses and shirts are a gamble online.

I also can't sit or stand properly for any length of time because of my disability, and I'm almost always reclining or laying down so my back doesn't feel murderously bad, and I have to have clothes that feel okay doing that in. Subsequently, I wear a lot of knee length dresses with leggings, and I own several pairs of short shorts for under the dresses. I miss wearing cute jeans, like my favorite pair of bright red apple bottom jeans and the torn jeans with fishnet sewn in under the cuts, but I end up feeling the waistband in all jeans either on the worst spot of my back or so low that I feel like my panties are on display, and they suck to lounge in.

I'll also definitely just wear bummy sweatpants or short shorts around the house, though, because if you're in my house, you know I'm permanently uncomfortable and any bit helps.
DrillInstructorJan 2 points 2y ago
Got to be honest I have a total paranoia of turning into a cliche disabled person in stained sweatpants and odd socks. I probably overdo it in terms of dressing tidily but I'd rather overdo it than underdo it. I would wear a hoodie on the weekends or something, it's not like you can't dress down, but I have a real attitude about things like fleeces becoming all balled up and denim starting to look too washed and shoes starting to look scruffy. I've been in this situation a bit longer than you but I find that paranoia grows rather than fades!

I know I'm not the only person to feel this way as someone I know, who's only 16, has way more sets of school uniform than you normally would, just so she can have stuff clean really often. Personally I think we all probably have enough reasons for people to think less of us and I don't need clothing to be one.

Yes, not being able to see sucks all the fun out of clothes shopping and that is not great. It probably leads me to more conservative choices especially as I have been in this situation long enough that I will now look noticeably older than I did last time I saw myself. None of this is lovely. But again, I'd far far rather overdo it than underdo it.
retrolental_morose 1 points 2y ago
I dress for work and make an effort. At home it's just aging tracksuits and comfortable t's or sweaters.
I take no pleasure in shopping for clothes - just one of the things in my life I have to do, it's probably on par with cleaning.
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