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This sub is awesome! (self.Blind)
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blazblu82 6 points 1y ago
I feel your pain with Facebook groups. I had joined a group for Retinopathy and it started off ok. But what drove me nuts was every time I complained about the cost of this or that, I'd get someone from another country kicking dirt in my face about how wonderful their healthcare system is and they get everything for free. Bragging about health care is not supportive in any way and I left the group because of that.
Welcome to r/blind!
Welcome to r/blind!
taversham 3 points 1y ago
Man I had the opposite problem in Facebook groups - every time I complained about anything or asked for advice with a problem, I'd get loads of replies from people telling me how their own situation was so much worse so I should be grateful. Even when it was completely unrelated, like I made a post about being frustrated that my vision loss means I was struggling to cook safely and asking how to adjust, and the comments were all things like "since my social security benefits were cut I don't have a kitchen anymore so I can't help"
blazblu82 2 points 1y ago
That's depressing
Facebook has all types of people, lol! Not saying Reddit doesn't, seems like Reddit has been mods than Facebook to keep the riff raff out.
Facebook has all types of people, lol! Not saying Reddit doesn't, seems like Reddit has been mods than Facebook to keep the riff raff out.
No-Satisfaction7842 2 points 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. In my case there were those types of posts, people constantly getting into flame wars, people peddling sketchy/bogus cures etc. There were some good people and some good content but you really had to dig to find it.
blazblu82 2 points 1y ago
Oh yes, I remember all the middle eastern/asian cure ads that kept sneaking in. The group I was with was out right depressing. I mean, retinopathy doesn't have a good outlook to begin with, but there was very little positivity in that group. So far, r/blind hasn't had those issues.
swagzillasixtynine 1 points 1y ago
I grew up pretty isolated and turned to disability Facebook groups for guidance. It was actually the worst. Nobody had anything positive to contribute and people would love to engage in competitions in who had it worse. God forbid someone gave a solution to a problem or some sort of helpful advice because they would be torn down for not joining in on the pity party.
Don’t get me wrong. This life is really hard and can be terribly cruel but at that time in my life I needed to know someone out there was making the most of life. I couldn’t find them on Facebook.
Facebook groups pushed me away from the blind and disabled community because I didn’t have it in me to count myself out like a lot of people that were in these groups.
The general public already think we are hopeless and I couldn’t handle blind people who were following suit in this harmful belief.
The thing that makes this sub so great is that people are allowed to express their issues and we collectively guide each other and share what we know. People are allowed to feel down without us fuelling the fire yet we aren’t pushing a narrative of toxic positivity and fetishising our adversity.
This sub has been so helpful to me that I can’t help but want to give back to this community and help in any little way I can.
Don’t get me wrong. This life is really hard and can be terribly cruel but at that time in my life I needed to know someone out there was making the most of life. I couldn’t find them on Facebook.
Facebook groups pushed me away from the blind and disabled community because I didn’t have it in me to count myself out like a lot of people that were in these groups.
The general public already think we are hopeless and I couldn’t handle blind people who were following suit in this harmful belief.
The thing that makes this sub so great is that people are allowed to express their issues and we collectively guide each other and share what we know. People are allowed to feel down without us fuelling the fire yet we aren’t pushing a narrative of toxic positivity and fetishising our adversity.
This sub has been so helpful to me that I can’t help but want to give back to this community and help in any little way I can.
cebeezly82 3 points 1y ago
I'd like to see it more popping myself, and only recently subbed. If used in the right way reddit can definitely be extremely accessible to the blind who use screen readers like myself as well. Hope more people flock here, but you'd actually be amazed how many people don't actually know what reddit even is. Heck I didn't until I was bored a few years ago. Welcome aboard, and look forward to seeing ya around! Happy holidays, and a smoking new year.
retrolental_morose 3 points 1y ago
when you joined, did you ... see ... that coming? ;)
couldn't resist.
couldn't resist.
laconicflow 1 points 1y ago
I think the blind jokes could use some improvement.
bradley22 1 points 1y ago
Perhaps r/blind isn't the right place to, look, for blind jokes :P
laconicflow 1 points 1y ago
Yeah, I like this place, too.
bradley22 0 points 1y ago
It is!
Try redditfortheblind if you have a windows machine, it’s a very fast snappy client for reddit.
Try redditfortheblind if you have a windows machine, it’s a very fast snappy client for reddit.
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