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OK, I know this might not quite fit here, and I’ve already put this in blind gamers and disabled gamers, but I know there’s a lot of support in here as well and also several developers and was wondering if anyone could help because I am extremely fed up with this and don’t know what to do, but feel very strongly about it. So thanks in advance.

So, in the last two games, the recruiting board in Dynasty mode has not worked with the screen reader, and I am mostly blind and require the screen reader to play the game. I’m willing to do workarounds in certain areas, but this is one where not having the screen reader pretty much renders it useless and it’s a massive part of Dynasty really the heart of it if you ask me.
And I didn’t buy this year‘s game because of this sole issue, but I have EA play and have access to a 10 hour demo because of it and shocking I know not really shocking, the same issue is present for the third year in a row in the recruiting board.
I really want to play this game and especially partake in the recruiting so badly, and I have tried my best to make them aware of this issue through social media and I don’t think they care. I don’t know what to do. I just want this to be fixed so that I can actually play and enjoy the game and this mode like everyone else. I don’t know why this one menu continues to get overlooked and it’s extremely frustrating and disheartening. And while I know, I’m not a game developer. It doesn’t seem like it’s something that would be that complicated to fix especially over the course of now three years.
I’ve tried getting in contact with Morgan Baker who is one of the members of their accessibility team through social media, and I either get a lot of non-answers from her, or just no answer at all like not even acknowledgement. I even tried to specifically ask before the game launched if this specific issue was still going to be present in the game and got no response. I know I’m not entitled to an answer, but I just don’t know what else to do.
I just want this to be fixed. That’s all I want, does anybody have any suggestions on what I could or should do, and does anybody know of any other people at EA that I could get in contact with that might actually be able to make a difference and get this changed or fixed?
I just want to be able to play Dynasty, I want to buy the game and know that I can use every part of the game with the screen reader. I’m hoping maybe someone will be able to help me or tell me someone that I could get in contact with to actually help with this and how to get in contact with them.
Thank you for any help or just reading my small rant, as I feel strongly about this and it’s important to me. I feel very ignored and like they don’t care despite claiming to care a lot about accessibility. Their actions speak much louder than their statements and words to me.

So, in the last two games, the recruiting board in Dynasty mode has not worked with the screen reader, and I am mostly blind and require the screen reader to play the game. I’m willing to do workarounds in certain areas, but this is one where not having the screen reader pretty much renders it useless and it’s a massive part of Dynasty really the heart of it if you ask me.
And I didn’t buy this year‘s game because of this sole issue, but I have EA play and have access to a 10 hour demo because of it and shocking I know not really shocking, the same issue is present for the third year in a row in the recruiting board.
I really want to play this game and especially partake in the recruiting so badly, and I have tried my best to make them aware of this issue through social media and I don’t think they care. I don’t know what to do. I just want this to be fixed so that I can actually play and enjoy the game and this mode like everyone else. I don’t know why this one menu continues to get overlooked and it’s extremely frustrating and disheartening. And while I know, I’m not a game developer. It doesn’t seem like it’s something that would be that complicated to fix especially over the course of now three years.
I’ve tried getting in contact with Morgan Baker who is one of the members of their accessibility team through social media, and I either get a lot of non-answers from her, or just no answer at all like not even acknowledgement. I even tried to specifically ask before the game launched if this specific issue was still going to be present in the game and got no response. I know I’m not entitled to an answer, but I just don’t know what else to do.
I just want this to be fixed. That’s all I want, does anybody have any suggestions on what I could or should do, and does anybody know of any other people at EA that I could get in contact with that might actually be able to make a difference and get this changed or fixed?
I just want to be able to play Dynasty, I want to buy the game and know that I can use every part of the game with the screen reader. I’m hoping maybe someone will be able to help me or tell me someone that I could get in contact with to actually help with this and how to get in contact with them.
Thank you for any help or just reading my small rant, as I feel strongly about this and it’s important to me. I feel very ignored and like they don’t care despite claiming to care a lot about accessibility. Their actions speak much louder than their statements and words to me.

So, in the last two games, the recruiting board in Dynasty mode has not worked with the screen reader, and I am mostly blind and require the screen reader to play the game. I’m willing to do workarounds in certain areas, but this is one where not having the screen reader pretty much renders it useless and it’s a massive part of Dynasty really the heart of it if you ask me.
And I didn’t buy this year‘s game because of this sole issue, but I have EA play and have access to a 10 hour demo because of it and shocking I know not really shocking, the same issue is present for the third year in a row in the recruiting board.
I really want to play this game and especially partake in the recruiting so badly, and I have tried my best to make them aware of this issue through social media and I don’t think they care. I don’t know what to do. I just want this to be fixed so that I can actually play and enjoy the game and this mode like everyone else. I don’t know why this one menu continues to get overlooked and it’s extremely frustrating and disheartening. And while I know, I’m not a game developer. It doesn’t seem like it’s something that would be that complicated to fix especially over the course of now three years.
I’ve tried getting in contact with Morgan Baker who is one of the members of their accessibility team through social media, and I either get a lot of non-answers from her, or just no answer at all like not even acknowledgement. I even tried to specifically ask before the game launched if this specific issue was still going to be present in the game and got no response. I know I’m not entitled to an answer, but I just don’t know what else to do.
I just want this to be fixed. That’s all I want, does anybody have any suggestions on what I could or should do, and does anybody know of any other people at EA that I could get in contact with that might actually be able to make a difference and get this changed or fixed?
I just want to be able to play Dynasty, I want to buy the game and know that I can use every part of the game with the screen reader. I’m hoping maybe someone will be able to help me or tell me someone that I could get in contact with to actually help with this and how to get in contact with them.
Thank you for any help or just reading my small rant, as I feel strongly about this and it’s important to me. I feel very ignored and like they don’t care despite claiming to care a lot about accessibility. Their actions speak much louder than their statements and words to me.

So some of this is a copy and paste of a post that I saw in the sub earlier today and I liked the question but wondered what the answers would be for someone like me who is blind and can’t see all the visual stuff. Thus that inspired this post, I am kind of looking for the same information but not at the same time.
I will leave the copy and pasted part of the original post below this so you know what I am asking, but I will also add some of my own context and questions before. Cause a lot of the replies while they seem useful on the other post, I saw a lot of things that were very visual based by looking for things that the person has on to start conversations about, ore looking for things like body language and eye contact for telling signs of approachability or atmosphere. Plus I also just can’t see you so I can’t like pick you out of the crowd, I’m not gonna be like visually drawn to someone if that makes sense. Like I’m not just gonna see you in a bar and be able to just walk up to you, cause I can’t see that you’re even there from like across the room or something.
So my questions would be on top of everything below this, what areas and places would you recommend a blind man in his early 20s go to meet/interact and build relationships with women? And the second and it’s mostly referenced below, but how would you recommend a blind man go about approaching women and also just finding some to approach in public?
Also, how would you feel if a blind man approached you in this context?
And like it also says from the original post, the more specific you can be the more helpful it is and thank you in advance!

OG Post:
How do you really want to be approached? A pick-up line or no pick-up line? How long should the approach last? For you girls, what is the perfect way for a guy to approach you?
what open up question should guy ask you if he approaches you on the street.
any tips would help
Please be specific in your responses – general advice like 'just be confident' or 'be yourself' doesn't really help me. I would really appreciate concrete examples and real-life situations

thanks

Ok so I’m a 22 year old guy who also happens to be blind and has been since birth. While I’m not dating necessarily right now, I’ve thought about this before and also had a couple dating profiles on apps before where I put this in my bio or in one of the prompts, and I wonder if that was the right thing to do.
So at what point should I tell a girl that I am blind? Also, should I include it in dating profile information? I want all opinions. When might she like to know that information and how might it make her feel? Would seeing that on a dating profile make her pass it by?
I personally think it’s important to know about me because it is a very big part of my life and affects a lot of things, but I don’t know at the same time if making that information known too soon is a bad thing, or at what point I should make it known.
Also, if there’s any other blind people or people with other disabilities out there, I’d also like to know how you handled something like this? Oh, and I don’t think this would matter that much, but in case it does or helps for context, I’m in the US.

OK, so I play on Xbox and on the store you can filter by accessibility features, and I filtered by menu narration and I think one of the few games that comes up there is assassins Creed shadows I think. Is that game actually playable if you are completely blind? I’ve been looking for new stuff to play, but that game is kind of expensive and I don’t want to buy it just for me not to be able to actually play it and get a false sense of hope.
Similarly, I believe assassin’s Creed black flag or something like that is coming out in a few weeks and I’ve seen a couple things about that possibly being very blind player friendly, can anyone tell me more about this and if this is actually going to be the case? I’ve never played assassins Creed before, so some of this stuff is unfamiliar to me, but I know how other games have claimed that they are accessible for blind players, but then when you actually get into the game, there are a lot of things that got overlooked in development and make it hard for us to actually play.
Thanks

I didn’t think there was anything apparently wrong with this and actually there was some decent discussion going on, but you know we can’t have that apparently in R/Blind. So I’ll put this in here lol.
OK, I know this could be controversial, but it is not intended to be and honestly I’d prefer if you choose to answer just one word answers of your thought, I don’t wanna start any debates or anything like that. I’m just genuinely curious. And I checked through the rules to see if this was allowed, and I didn’t see anything that necessarily prohibited it so I hope this is allowed.
I want to give some context, so I am blind, and I was also having a discussion with another blind person a while back from a YouTube channel, and we agreed on a lot of things, but then I wondered if us blind people are assumed to lean one way or the other politically and how many people actually lean that direction or a different one.
So this is purely just for my own curiosity as I feel like it is generally assumed that blind people might lean more one way than the other, and I feel like I personally don’t fit that mold and I’m curious what other peoples thoughts are on this and if you agree or disagree respectfully. Cause the lady that I was talking to also was curious about this and we both feel kind of similar about this, and I was wondering if I am off on this or how common it is.
Again, I want to emphasize that I don’t intend or want to cause any sort of controversy or debating by putting this up, it is purely just for my own interest and like I said very short answers with just your personal opinion or direction is really all I’m looking for, I know everybody’s different and that’s fine but I was just curious about the consensus if there is one at all. And if people answer and want to know mine, I have no problem giving it, but I won’t put it in this initial post again because I want to avoid putting any bias in here on the post itself cause I just want answers from people as I am curious.

OK, I know this could be controversial, but it is not intended to be and honestly I’d prefer if you choose to answer just one word answers of your thought, I don’t wanna start any debates or anything like that. I’m just genuinely curious. And I checked through the rules to see if this was allowed, and I didn’t see anything that necessarily prohibited it so I hope this is allowed.
I want to give some context, so I am blind, and I was also having a discussion with another blind person a while back from a YouTube channel, and we agreed on a lot of things, but then I wondered if us blind people are assumed to lean one way or the other politically and how many people actually lean that direction or a different one.
So this is purely just for my own curiosity as I feel like it is generally assumed that blind people might lean more one way than the other, and I feel like I personally don’t fit that mold and I’m curious what other peoples thoughts are on this and if you agree or disagree respectfully. Cause the lady that I was talking to also was curious about this and we both feel kind of similar about this, and I was wondering if I am off on this or how common it is.
Again, I want to emphasize that I don’t intend or want to cause any sort of controversy or debating by putting this up, it is purely just for my own interest and like I said very short answers with just your personal opinion or direction is really all I’m looking for, I know everybody’s different and that’s fine but I was just curious about the consensus if there is one at all. And if people answer and want to know mine, I have no problem giving it, but I won’t put it in this initial post again because I want to avoid putting any bias in here on the post itself cause I just want answers from people as I am curious.

Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but I felt like it could fit here and a couple other places so I just put it here…
I am blind and have found it hard to find ways to get/stay in shape and truthfully have been out of shape and overweight for quite a while and I want to work on this. I’m not exactly sure where to start, though. I have been doing some smaller things in and around my house to try and at least do something. Unfortunately, for me when I was in school and I had things like PE where you might have learned about how to go about all this I usually used that time or was told to use that class as opportunity to either work on things as part of my accommodations, or that was when I would go work with vision teachers to learn, braille or technology or other things, so I kind of missed a lot of PE from middle school on and missed out on a lot of this information. Thus I feel kind of in the dark on all this, as far as where to start and what to do.
So my first question is, does anybody know of any good resources for blind people where I can kind of learn about this stuff in a simple manner, and how to go about it? Also, does anyone have any advice as far as where and how to get started?
Similarly, and this is something that I have tried to do research on myself over the last year or so but I’ve had trouble finding good or what I feel like is reliable information…
As far as exercise equipment, things like treadmills, bikes, and other related things what equipment is accessible and usable for completely blind users, is there specific brands that excel in these areas? Also, though at the moment it might be a struggle for me to get there since traveling for me is a hassle, are there specific gyms that are good with accessibility and having access to accessible equipment for someone like myself to use, and good staff for working with people with blindness?
I know I want to get myself in better shape, but I have no idea where to begin and kind of feel lost with this.
I would start walking around outside, but I live in kind of a rural area that I don’t feel is the best for that. I don’t feel comfortable doing that, plus I tend to get bored just walking around outside and would like to be able to listen to music while doing it, but I can’t be outside doing that because I need to be able to hear my surroundings and be aware. That’s another reason why I think a treadmill or bike would be good for me if I could find one because that would allow me to stay inside and do those sorts of things while having the luxury of being able to listen to music since in my own home, I don’t have to be hyper aware of my surroundings like I do outside, and it would give me something else to think about besides how fast can I get this workout insert example here, over with. It would give me sort of a distraction plus if that treadmill can track things like steps and stuff like that. I’m also kind of competitive so I could use it as a way to compete with myself for further motivation.
Also, I have an iPhone for any accessible app recommendations for all these sorts of things as well. Will be appreciated if you have any!
If you have any more questions for me or need more context, I am happy to answer as well and thank you for your help

Need Input As A 22 YO Blind Guy In The US Trying To Figure Out A Potential Dating Related Situation And It’s All New To Me, And Confusing To Navigate

So first, I’m sorry if this is out of place and sounds silly, but I’ve been driving myself crazy about this for a long time and would like some other input and possibly advice or prospective from people other than the one friend I have discussed this with. I initially left this as a comment on another thing, but thought it might be better to make as a post in here since it is a bit different from the thing that I had commented on initially the other day. It’s kind of long, so sorry and I’m new to Reddit, but I just need some help to decipher this and figuring out if I’m crazy or what to do. I’m gonna copy and paste what I left in the comment and then I’ll add more to it. But I feel the situation is complex for me for a lot of different reasons which I describe. Also I have never dated or been in a relationship so this is all completely new and uncharted territory for me and being blind. I feel like I could be missing out on a lot of signs or maybe visual cues or something. So I’ll also ask how do you all navigate figuring out those things as well? Cause I can’t decide whether I’m over analyzing things or not paying enough attention to them, I feel like I’m driving myself crazy but I don’t know what to make of it and that might be my own fault.
I know how I personally feel, but I don’t want to make something out of nothing and give off any weird vibes or ruin this as I’ll describe below. I believe the title of the original post where this was commented by me was navigating dating while blind or something close, just so the comment makes a little more sense.

As a guy in my early 20s I struggle with this constantly and it honestly eats at me all the time especially with this one situation that I have found myself in.
I find myself constantly trying to decipher something as I know how I feel but can’t figure out exactly how this girl I like feels, and I’m not exactly sure what to do about it.
She is about 2 years older than me, however, where this gets complicated is that she is also my guitar teacher at the music store where I take lessons. She is a very good teacher and it’s hard to find someone who can teach me to play a guitar as a blind person to begin with, so i’m afraid to do anything because I don’t wanna mess that up either.
However, I really do like her for a whole list of reasons and find myself thinking about what to do a lot as I have been very patient trying to wait for an opportunity, well over a year at this point.
I feel like sometimes she might feel similar, but I’m afraid to actually confirm it or ask and I don’t even know how to go about doing that, and I can’t see physical queues or body language, eye contact things like that that are visual because of my blindness, and I know these things would be very helpful when trying to figure this out.
I have also bounced a lot of different occurrences off a sighted friend of mine and he seems to think there could be something there as well.
During lessons when I see her, we spend a lot of it just yapping about random stuff or stories. It’s very comfortable and fun, usually a lot of laughing and sometimes she’ll get really giggly and I can’t tell if it’s a flirting thing, or if that’s just natural. I could go over all sorts of different little things that I’ve noticed but there’s one bigger one that really made my friend think there could be something more to this…
For context, we do also tease each other a lot and have pretty similar senses of humor with heavy sarcasm included, but at one of my last lessons while I was trying to play something on the guitar, or was talking or something, she kept playfully kicking my shin, and lightly poking my knee and then saying she didn’t when I asked. I then jokingly started kicking her shin in return after this.
But I couldn’t figure out if it was just joking around as friends or if there was something more to it, and I’ve been trying to rack my brain and figure this out, and my friend seemed to think that it was flirty.
Any help would be great. I really wish I could get the visual cues that I might be missing out on to help with this but I feel like I’m in a box because I care a lot and don’t wanna say something that would make her think I’m a weirdo or something lol for thinking that, or risk messing up my opportunity to learn guitar from her.
I always feel like I’m overthinking it, and also underthinking at the same time. I feel like I could be missing an opportunity. I can’t figure out the right thing to do or the right way to approach this, because if I’m wrong, then it could mess up a lot for me.
Like I feel like being able to see facial expressions, and how she acts, it would be able to give me more clarity on the situation. Right now I just find myself constantly thinking about little things and trying to decipher what they may or may not mean.
We also do text outside lessons as well, but it’s kind of spotty like sometimes we’ll have a conversation over text for a couple hours and then other times I won’t hear from her for a week. And there’s in-between to that obviously, but I’m not sure what that means if anything or if that’s abnormal or not.
My point is is that I get where you’re coming from, I have a similar feeling on the other side of this and it’s very confusing. Kind of hard to figure out, and is sometimes frustrating for me at least and maybe it shouldn’t be. I feel like as a guy and maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I could be on thinner ice, and have to bemore careful as well. I don’t know if that’s odd on my part but I try to be very thought out and careful about what I do and this is very much within that thinking.
I don’t know I think I’m rambling at this point, so any help or insight in general or on my specific situation would also be very appreciated
End of comment…

Basically, is it just friendliness, which is fine, or is there more to this from her side of this as well and I have no idea if she knows how I feel at all. Am I thinking too much or not enough and does anyone have any advice on how I should be looking at things or approaching this, or should I just leave it alone and let it be whatever it ends up being which right now seems to be at the very least friendly.
All of this is confusing to me and again I don’t want to say or do the wrong thing because it could also mess up a lot, and I really do like her and so I don’t want to make her uncomfortable or something either by asking the wrong thing or asking and making myself seem silly or something.
And I have a lot of other general like dating questions being blind, as well, that I’d also like to ask about though maybe those will either come up in potential comments to this or maybe I’ll make that a separate post.
Either way any help/advice or perspective from either my fellow blind men who may feel or have felt similar, or the ladies who have also maybe felt similar or could maybe give me perspective from the other side like her side of this as well, Any and all help would be greatly appreciated cause I just feel stumped and hung up on this right now about what to do and what to make of it. And I’m happy to answer any questions or give more context if it’s needed maybe I didn’t think of something.
Thanks for reading my novel lol
Edit:
I know a lot of people have already looked this over, but I somehow managed to leave out what also could be an important detail, though may not be. I forgot to mention that she does sometimes call me by a different variation of my name as sort of a pet name. Not sure if that’s the best way of putting it, but I think it’s more of teasing, but maybe there could be more meaning to it. It’s essentially the same as my name already, except instead of it just ending in an E it’s i.e.
This happens in person and also over text. Sometimes it came about because the older lady that owns the music store called me that one time as I was leaving and she heard it and now it has stuck and there’s only one other person in my life who has ever called me this name. She knows that it kind of annoys me but also that I haven’t put a stop to it. I don’t know if this added information is better context or not but somehow I forgot about it.
And there’s lots of smaller things that have happened as well over text message or in person that I didn’t put in here cause honestly trying to recount all of them would be insane, especially to put in this.

Not sure if this is the right place to put this and I’ve tried to do a lot of research on this myself, but thought people here might have more information or recommendations for me.
So I play on Xbox, and though I wouldn’t prefer it, I’d be open to trying mobile games as well, I have an iPhone.
I’m looking for games that I can actually play, but fully accessible or at the very least have a good amount of screen reader support. I’ve played games like Forza motorsport and loved it. I play things like Madden and though accessibility could be better, I am able to make it work since it does have enough screen reader support to get me by. And then there’s other games like the vale and things like that which are more accessible and I’m looking for more recommendations, please?
I’m open to hearing all recommendations, but I’d like to be able to find some management or simulator type games, like something where I maybe manage a business, or something like the Sims as I like games such as that, farming simulator would be another style of game that I like. Just things like that where they are kind of chill, but they are still fun to play and I get to manage and run things or build things up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if you have any questions for me, that might help me figure this out, I’m happy to answer!

Wasn’t exactly sure which category this should go in since it really could fit multiple so I just figured I would put it here and create a discussion out of it.
A dream of mine is to someday be able to make a living and career out of writing songs, which are generally targeted to the country music genre. I spend a lot of time and have for the last several years, writing song lyrics and as of writing this have over 500 songs worth of lyrics written.
However, the part that I still haven’t figured out is how to put the actual music with those lyrics, I have taken some melody ideas and recorded them in my phone, but that doesn’t happen for me all that often. I have also been taking guitar lessons for the last two years and have acquired three guitars two acoustic and an electric fender telecaster. I’ve been trying to learn guitar and admittedly feel like I’m learning it but slower than I wish I would be. And also wanted to try and learn some music theory, as well as maybe the braille music code to try and expand my horizons on music as a whole to hopefully help me create the music to go with all of these lyrics that I write.
Obviously not every song is good and there’s probably more that aren’t than our, but I also know I do have some good ones, but I generally feel pretty good about my ability to write lyrics and I know that the more I do it the better I will be at it, but I still need to figure out how to put the actual music part of it with it.
I was curious if anybody had any thoughts on this or maybe other people have also delved into something similar or the same, or maybe also have songwriting or music as a passion as well, and what y’alls thoughts and experiences have been?
Additionally, does anyone have any tips for learning instruments specifically guitar as a blind person, and ways to make it easier or faster? And does anybody have any advice on learning music theory in general, and good resources to find and learn music braille if you think that’s even useful to learn?
What sorts of creative passions or hobbies do y’all have and keep up with, and just any other thoughts or recommendations or stories about this? And what are different ways you guys find inspiration to be creative and come up with things like an idea for a song or song lyrics maybe, cause I feel like I have some interesting methods…
Oh, and can any of y’all sing cause I don’t think I can but I wish I could, but good thing I just want to write the songs.

So I am in the US, and I would classify myself as a bit of a weather nerd, but not like full blown. Like as a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV at my grandparents house during the summers and just watch hurricane coverage on the weather channel all day, even if the hurricane was nowhere near me.
I find whether very interesting, especially like hurricanes and tornadoes, but I’m not quite the most well-versed on all the science behind it and honestly, I don’t fully care as much either. However, this brings me to my questions…
When there are tornadoes and hurricanes, I would like to be able to, for example, be able to track them on a radar like a sighted person would be able to, but I have had a lot of trouble finding any weather apps with a radar that actually works and is usable with voiceover. Plus some other apps in general just aren’t always the most accessible parts of them are but a lot of times I find they also have areas that are not accessible.
So does anyone have any recommendations on accessible weather apps on iPhone? Also to go with this, does anyone know if any of these apps have, or where I can get access to an accessible weather radar to actually track storms especially like when they are near me?
Cause the other part of that besides my own interest and fascination that bothers me is that I can’t track storms for example, if I’m under a warning or something to be able to try and tell exactly where it’s at for my own safety.
Also, if you just have any interesting weather information or accessible weather gadgets, and tips that I maybe don’t know about, I’d also like to hear any of those as well!

So first, I’m sorry if this is out of place and sounds silly, but I’ve been driving myself crazy about this for a long time and would like some other input and possibly advice or prospective from people other than the one friend I have discussed this with. I initially left this as a comment on another thing, but thought it might be better to make as a post in here since it is a bit different from the thing that I had commented on initially the other day. It’s kind of long, so sorry and I’m new to Reddit, but I just need some help to decipher this and figuring out if I’m crazy or what to do. I’m gonna copy and paste what I left in the comment and then I’ll add more to it. But I feel the situation is complex for me for a lot of different reasons which I describe. Also I have never dated or been in a relationship so this is all completely new and uncharted territory for me and being blind. I feel like I could be missing out on a lot of signs or maybe visual cues or something. So I’ll also ask how do you all navigate figuring out those things as well? Cause I can’t decide whether I’m over analyzing things or not paying enough attention to them, I feel like I’m driving myself crazy but I don’t know what to make of it and that might be my own fault.
I know how I personally feel, but I don’t want to make something out of nothing and give off any weird vibes or ruin this as I’ll describe below. I believe the title of the original post where this was commented by me was navigating dating while blind or something close, just so the comment makes a little more sense.

As a guy in my early 20s I struggle with this constantly and it honestly eats at me all the time especially with this one situation that I have found myself in.
I find myself constantly trying to decipher something as I know how I feel but can’t figure out exactly how this girl I like feels, and I’m not exactly sure what to do about it.
She is about 2 years older than me, however, where this gets complicated is that she is also my guitar teacher at the music store where I take lessons. She is a very good teacher and it’s hard to find someone who can teach me to play a guitar as a blind person to begin with, so i’m afraid to do anything because I don’t wanna mess that up either.
However, I really do like her for a whole list of reasons and find myself thinking about what to do a lot as I have been very patient trying to wait for an opportunity, well over a year at this point.
I feel like sometimes she might feel similar, but I’m afraid to actually confirm it or ask and I don’t even know how to go about doing that, and I can’t see physical queues or body language, eye contact things like that that are visual because of my blindness, and I know these things would be very helpful when trying to figure this out.
I have also bounced a lot of different occurrences off a sighted friend of mine and he seems to think there could be something there as well.
During lessons when I see her, we spend a lot of it just yapping about random stuff or stories. It’s very comfortable and fun, usually a lot of laughing and sometimes she’ll get really giggly and I can’t tell if it’s a flirting thing, or if that’s just natural. I could go over all sorts of different little things that I’ve noticed but there’s one bigger one that really made my friend think there could be something more to this…
For context, we do also tease each other a lot and have pretty similar senses of humor with heavy sarcasm included, but at one of my last lessons while I was trying to play something on the guitar, or was talking or something, she kept playfully kicking my shin, and lightly poking my knee and then saying she didn’t when I asked. I then jokingly started kicking her shin in return after this.
But I couldn’t figure out if it was just joking around as friends or if there was something more to it, and I’ve been trying to rack my brain and figure this out, and my friend seemed to think that it was flirty.
Any help would be great. I really wish I could get the visual cues that I might be missing out on to help with this but I feel like I’m in a box because I care a lot and don’t wanna say something that would make her think I’m a weirdo or something lol for thinking that, or risk messing up my opportunity to learn guitar from her.
I always feel like I’m overthinking it, and also underthinking at the same time. I feel like I could be missing an opportunity. I can’t figure out the right thing to do or the right way to approach this, because if I’m wrong, then it could mess up a lot for me.
Like I feel like being able to see facial expressions, and how she acts, it would be able to give me more clarity on the situation. Right now I just find myself constantly thinking about little things and trying to decipher what they may or may not mean.
We also do text outside lessons as well, but it’s kind of spotty like sometimes we’ll have a conversation over text for a couple hours and then other times I won’t hear from her for a week. And there’s in-between to that obviously, but I’m not sure what that means if anything or if that’s abnormal or not.
My point is is that I get where you’re coming from, I have a similar feeling on the other side of this and it’s very confusing. Kind of hard to figure out, and is sometimes frustrating for me at least and maybe it shouldn’t be. I feel like as a guy and maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I could be on thinner ice, and have to bemore careful as well. I don’t know if that’s odd on my part but I try to be very thought out and careful about what I do and this is very much within that thinking.
I don’t know I think I’m rambling at this point, so any help or insight in general or on my specific situation would also be very appreciated
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Basically, is it just friendliness, which is fine, or is there more to this from her side of this as well and I have no idea if she knows how I feel at all. Am I thinking too much or not enough and does anyone have any advice on how I should be looking at things or approaching this, or should I just leave it alone and let it be whatever it ends up being which right now seems to be at the very least friendly.
All of this is confusing to me and again I don’t want to say or do the wrong thing because it could also mess up a lot, and I really do like her and so I don’t want to make her uncomfortable or something either by asking the wrong thing or asking and making myself seem silly or something.
And I have a lot of other general like dating questions being blind, as well, that I’d also like to ask about though maybe those will either come up in potential comments to this or maybe I’ll make that a separate post.
Either way any help/advice or perspective from either my fellow blind men who may feel or have felt similar, or the ladies who have also maybe felt similar or could maybe give me perspective from the other side like her side of this as well, Any and all help would be greatly appreciated cause I just feel stumped and hung up on this right now about what to do and what to make of it. And I’m happy to answer any questions or give more context if it’s needed maybe I didn’t think of something.
Thanks for reading my novel lol
Edit:
I know a lot of people have already looked this over, but I somehow managed to leave out what also could be an important detail, though may not be. I forgot to mention that she does sometimes call me by a different variation of my name as sort of a pet name. Not sure if that’s the best way of putting it, but I think it’s more of teasing, but maybe there could be more meaning to it. It’s essentially the same as my name already, except instead of it just ending in an E it’s i.e.
This happens in person and also over text. Sometimes it came about because the older lady that owns the music store called me that one time as I was leaving and she heard it and now it has stuck and there’s only one other person in my life who has ever called me this name. She knows that it kind of annoys me but also that I haven’t put a stop to it. I don’t know if this added information is better context or not but somehow I forgot about it.

I am personally a blind man in my early 20s and I’ve always been curious about this as for some reason I think that this could be a thing but I’ve never actually been sure and never knew who to ask. Felt like if I were to just asked that to someone I actually know they wouldn’t give me an honest answer, regardless of what they thought so I figured maybe I could get one here.
Plus, I feel like that would just be a weird question to ask someone you know and the more opinions I can get the better.