#visually disabled

[onlytiktoks]

[cripposting]

I gotta rant for a moment.

So my cripple ass has had a pair of smart crutches for about a year now. They’ve gotten pretty worn down so I was like hey it would be nice to get a replacement. I also happen to be 4’9”. Which means most crutches from places like walk easy, cool crutches etc arent height accesible. Which means I can’t get those without doing damage to my body.

So I go online and do the mobility aid hunt for forearm crutches. I find ergobaun crutches and they have a junior option. They have a closed cuff, they are size accesible on their website, they have a little knee rest tjing etc. I ordered them and I had to wait months to even save up for them and I was super excited. It was gonna be so nice to have an easier time standing, to not drop my crutches all the time.

BUT NO THEY DID FALSE ADVERTISING. THEY SAID THEY WERE HEIGHT ACCESIBLE AND THEY WERENT. I had to lean down and bend my back even at the lowest peg. They also have a really strict policy on returns. I’m so fucking sad and pissed right now. False advertising is crap as it is, but doing that FOR MOBILITY AIDS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Jesus fucking Christ.

I just want to walk with less pain and stop damaging my crutches and shit.

[kingoftieland]

Daredevil once MENTORED A BLIND PETER PARKER! 🕶🦯

[ladysuccubus]

ೀㅤㅤ(Blind) Bat

A flag for those who are visually impaired in any way. Whether that be nearsighted, farsighted, colorblind, completely or almost blind, etc. Intended for those whose bad vision is more severe but anyone without perfect vision is free to use.

Name taken from the phase "blind as a bat".

ㅤི༏⠀ ͏ ͏ ͏DNI : Basic dni, non-traumagenic systems, anti-paraphilias, transIDs, radqueers, anti-good faith, narc abuse believers, anti-self diagnosis.

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[PT: blind bat. a flag for those who are visually impaired in any way. whether that be nearsighted, farsighted, colorblind, completely or almost blind, etc. intended for those whose bad vision is more severe but anyone without perfect vision can use. /END PT]

[primadonna-sys]

Hello, blind folks of tumblr! I have a question for y'all: do blind folks have a culture like Deaf folks have a culture? Should I capitalise the 'b' in blind like I capitalise 'd' in Deaf?

[the-astropaws]

❔️ Hello since it's disability pride month it's time for a problem we need to see acknowledged more.

Reminder that fonts [ the copy paste ones/the ones on the post itself ], break screen readers regardless on if you put plain text above or below it. If anywhere on the post has a font the majority of screen readers will no matter what, crash, freeze, make horrible noises etc. The person using it will have to click off the post and/or blog. Some screen readers skip fonts but that doesn't mean all do. Many break and we are unable to do anything about it. Please, stop using them. For those who don't care enough to remove that, at minimum put "font warning" or something on the link / page so those who's screen readers break know to not click it. And while on that point. Put your easy to read link on a different page, or beside the link to the rentry/prn.cc/etc. If it's on the same as the font it could still break before we even have a chance to see there's an easy to read option.

Pretty fonts are not pretty when they exclude visually disabled people, pretty fonts are not pretty when they exclude people with dyslexia and other reading issues. Pretty fonts are not pretty if your response to people upset about them is "turn your screen reader off", "Just don't click it then" or "But I like how they look and it's my blog". That last one especially is ableist regardless on if you claim to care about disabled people. You are actively claiming you care about disability but ignore those with screen readers simply because it doesn't affect you. I'm tired of seeing fonts on every rentry and blog. I can't read boundaries or information without our screen reader yelling at us. How do you expect us to know anything about your blog if I can't get to the information?

One last thing. I'm disappointed when seeing someone also with a screen reader say "well it doesn't break mine so it can't break yours". Acknowledge you are lucky fonts don't break yours. Acknowledge it's still ableist to imply all screen readers work the same or that it isn't a big deal if some can't read what you can. It's upsetting being excluded from so many blogs. So many accounts in general because tumblr isn't the only website with fonts all over it. We don't deserve to have so many things not available just because we're not able to read them like others. - The Astropaws collective since we all agree on the issues.

Edit: This applies to fonts being in your tags, bios, names, literally anything people can publicly see. They break screen readers too! :)

[lachrymalhaze]

a lot of the time when I'm not online or posting, assume I'm in a dark room, off my phone because light (less light than you think, like the light of my screen in B&W filter, brightness all the way down, blue light filter etc) is too much, and is painful, and trying to tolerate more of it for extended periods of time will induce me into a migraine, which will induce me into a flare and that will either cause me to crash/extend the crash I'm probably already in and therefore lower my baseline and so on and so on.

the reality of moderate-severe MECFS is being in a lot of fucking pain most of the time, auditory and visual stimuli we can't control inducing more pain/flare ups and crashes (like if you live with loud and noisy kids under the age of 10 who have no volume control), only being able to do so much to try to manage that pain, being bored MOST of the time because you can't do anything you want to actually do because it's too much energy and will cause PEM and a crash, and so forth.

I miss my fucking hobbies. I miss my friends. I miss playing video games. I miss calling people for hours. text conversations exhaust me. being in lit rooms exhausts me. I spend so much time typing with my eyes closed because it's still too bright.

I don't know. send love to your MECFS suffering friends. we aren't trying to avoid you or be cold or not hang out or participate. we don't hate you. we miss life. we are lonely. we're trying to keep from getting sicker and we are still getting more sick in the process because we can only accommodate ourselves so much.

[librarianpancake]

I wish there was more media representation of people with retinitis pigmentosa. I've been told "you don't look like someone who is losing the vision" (I'm still taking orientation and mobility classes so I can get my long cane later). My retina is dying, which is causing me many edemas, night blindness, and vision loss. Currently, I have low vision and can still see some things, but my vision will continue to decline over the years.

Many people with retinitis pigmentosa suffer from comments and judgments because many people don't know about our condition and think we're exaggerating.