what hobbies and activities do you miss doing? (that you have done before)(self.Blind)
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DeeDeegc9 points11m ago
I really miss being able to drive and riding my bike.
WEugeneSmith5 points11m ago
I used to be a photographer.
I miss taking photos and playing in Adobe Photoshop.
DrillInstructorJan1 points11m ago
I was planning to do television camerawork, I know how you feel.
WEugeneSmith1 points11m ago
Thank you. I know how you feel, too.
Fridux4 points11m ago
Playing World of Warcraft, as it was by far the game that I spent the most amount of time in. I even wrote a screen-reader add-on for it once when Blizzard added the text-to-speech API to the add-on sandbox hoping that it would somehow revive the experience, but at some point I realized that I couldn't do it alone blind so I gave up. My add-on made almost the entire game's user interface accessible save for some corner cases, but adding information that could help me find my way in the game world proved to be an impossible challenge to overcome blind, and unfortunately I have nobody to play with so my effort was worthless.
blindbat843 points11m ago
There is the SKU mod to make WoW classic accessible: It is always being worked on and works with TBC classic and will apparently work with WotK when it comes out as the people making it were able to get access to the beta or something. They also have an active discord for feedback.
Fridux1 points11m ago
Thanks for reminding me about that add-on, which I keep forgetting about for some reason. At the moment I do not have a subscription nor do I have World of Warcraft installed, but I need to check whether it works for me.
ParakeetYeeet4 points11m ago
I miss playing video games with text
DarkDan33 points11m ago
I used to train martial arts back in high school, it was good exercise and helped me deal with a lot of the anger and bitterness I was dealing with at the time.
CosmicBunny972 points11m ago
You can still do martial arts now - I know jiu jitsu and judo can be made accessible, and I'm sure other kinds are accessible as well
SiriuslyGranger1 points10m ago
Why can’t you do this as a blind person? I think you can.
DarkDan31 points10m ago
You can, I just haven't done it in a long time. The question did not specify whether or not you could do things as a blind person. Just things that you miss doing.
SiriuslyGranger1 points10m ago
I think they mean that you can’t do it anymore. But yeah. Glad you know you can though.
CosmicBunny971 points11m ago
I miss playing Sims - I would spend hours looking at house plans and custom content, drawing up potential family trees and thinking of scenarios etc. I miss looking up images to use for my stories and their covers. Right now, I'm particularly nostalgic for 2018-2019 where I actually went to a uni campus and could explore and get dressed up all cute. That was the most independent I ever felt and I feel like I can't necessarily get that again in a way.
spaceship4parakeet2 points11m ago
Sight-reading music. Reading print without scannign stuff in. Mountain biking and trail running.
RollForParadise1 points11m ago
Photography, playing on the Wii or my Nintendo DS, painting and drawing and learning animation, playing Minecraft, the Sims, and watching Youtubers play video games that I was too scared to play on my own… I can still listen but it’s not the same. I also miss laying down And just watching the clouds roll by.
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