Not light dependent! Power goes out and all the sighted people are scrambling for flashlights, even in the house they’ve lived in for over 25 years, where I’m getting around fine without missing a beat.

Two-for-one tickets. Many places, like movie theatres, concerts, museums, and intercity busses/trains, my guide gets in free. Sometimes, we also get to skip lines. It’s a pretty sweet deal.

I’m also a fan of my free transit pass.

Skipping airport lines.

While I miss driving and the independence that comes with it, I have found that spending time in the car with family and friends who provide rides is priceless. In the past, I would drive and meet these people at a restaurant or party, but now I have the pleasure of their company and the gift of their time as we head to these gatherings togethe

I've learned so much from and about my loved ones as we spend this time together.

Coming from someone who is legally blind and still has some usable sight:

Sometimes I feel like I get to hear more beauty in the world than others do. Sighted people find a lot of beauty in visual things, but I get to have that same awe and amazement from, say, the sound of a flock of birds flying overhead, or the wind rustling the trees. Just lots of things fully sighted people take for granted are things I find beautiful.

Sometimes people buy my hot chocolate at Starbucks, and even though I know their being paternalistic, I get some free amazing hot chocolate!

But also I’m DeafBlind and my sensitivity to smell is top notch. I love popping out of my office at work and asking people very specific questions about the spices in their lunch. I can smell snow, rain, thunder storms, the specific smell of my guide dog (which is different from other dogs), and my nose is great at picking up useful landmarks.

Also, I’m awesome at detecting vibrations.

Also also! American Sign Language means I can talk in silence, braille let’s me read in the dark, and pro-tactile let’s me speak in silence in the dark *mic drop*

You begin to understand how important civil rights and human rights as important and worthwhile. You may want to and like fighting for justice and advocacy.

You become empathetic about others struggles and can want to help them.

You get to see how life is for the disadvantaged and try to find solutions to help. Or hopefully part of the solution to combat these differences.

I can read in total darkness...

As someone with no vision in my right eye, I can say the best thing is putting people I don’t like on my right side

Having the freedom of not giving a crap.

Labrador retrievers.

Free / discounted college tuition (in some places anyway)

Discounted public transit is very nice.

Also enjoy skipping the line at the airport.

Free bus pass, baby!

But seriously, it gives you time to focus on you, do work in the community (assuming you aren't employed full time of course), spend more time with your friends and family and take up hobbies you didn't have time for before (sight depending).

Or at least that's what happened to me...

I love the strength that all of us possess. We face a challenge that most people cannot imagine, and I actually hear this all of the time.

I have grown to be a more positive, caring and loving person because of everything that I have been through, and it takes away a lot of the superficial judgment that most people don’t realize they do.

The ability to motivate and inspire others from our resilience and determination.

I am more social than when I was fully sighted.

***Tap-Tap, the Freedom Cane*** seems to be an instant ice-breaker, allowing me to tap my way over to anyone and start up a conversation just by asking a simple question such as asking for directions.

My sense of touch! Being able to know what I'm holding, or put a key in the lock in total darkness, or other stuff like that. I don't have super acute hearing because I'm deafblind, but being deafblind means I absolutely have a better sense of touch than my sighted and hearing peers, and I love that!

I only started going blind back in April, but it's rapidly progressing. I always thought the whole "your other senses get super acute" thing was exaggerated, but holy shit, they did NOT exaggerate!

I'm half deaf in my right ear, but now it's like it never happened! I have superhuman hearing, it seems like, and when my kids are whispering clear across our pretty huge house, I hear *every fucking word.* I can also smell all the things, too. And while I've always been acutely aware of barometer pressure during a storm, now it's even more accurate than before, which was proven by the tornado we got back in May.

It helps you not be prejudice against people because of the way they look, you can’t judge a book by its cover if you cannot see the cover

The one time I went skiing and was able to skip the line at the lift. I had a ball, it felt so freeing, zooming down the mountain side.

I don’t know if I have a good thing about this, that’s my opinion

Being blind has lots of good things! One of the benefits is all the heightening of the other senses and deeper understanding of the human condition. We are Perceptually Enhanced!