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OK, do you guys think that your pets know that you can’t see? Sometimes I feel like my dogs know it and use it against me lol. Cause my basset hound we let all the dogs out in the backyard in a fenced in area off the patio. Well, she is the only one that I have trouble getting to come in the house. She likes to go out and lay on the patio in the sun, and I think she knows that I can’t see where she’s laying down because if I call her over and over, she just won’t come and she’ll stay quiet.
Like I would go out and make her come in, but I can’t see where she’s laying down at to go do that and I think she knows it and uses it against me. Generally speaking my other three dogs come in without much issue. She’s the only one I have trouble with and she’s a great dog outside of this. I know this is crazy, but I thought it would be a funny question. Anybody else have a similar experience?

Reddit For Asking Blind People Whatever Questions You Might Have

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A New Community For Asking Questions To The Blind Community

I am blind myself and have seen many AMA topics and things asking blind people questions and I’ve always found that interesting and always liked seeing what questions people with normal eyesight have for us. So I have created a dedicated community for it to ask blind people questions and they might even ask you questions… So if you’re curious or interested in that and are blind, have 2020 vision or even x-ray vision or somewhere in between, come join us I think once we get off the ground discussions there will be pretty interesting. I look forward to seeing what questions everybody has for us and what we might be able to ask you!
We’ve gotten it off to a pretty solid start so far, but we’re always looking for more people to come over, contribute and just enjoy the community that we’re building. We would especially love more of you with normal eyesight who might be curious about things as well!

OK, so I’ve always heard this thing that blind people struggle with sleep and can sometimes like get the time of day like day and night backwards, I do not personally have this trouble, but I also still have some eyesight. I have also never met anybody that has struggled with this either so I’m curious how common it actually is and what circumstances I guess might cause it?
If you do have it, how difficult is it to deal with and what ways do you work around it? And is there something else besides just vision that causes that specifically but still relates to lack of vision?

So I know it seems among us that are in here so far that Music is a common interest. So just as a casual thing, what is everybody’s favorite music genre or genres?
Also, if you have any favorite songs or artists put those down below as well?
For me, my favorite genre by far is country music, but I’m still pretty picky about it. And I listen to a lot of country music that probably doesn’t get played on the radio as well.
My favorite artists are Muscadine Bloodline, and The Castellows but they aren’t what you would call mainstream. If we’re going mainstream artists, then my favorites are probably Riley Green, Luke Combs and Ella Langley, I suppose.

So this is meant to be more of a fun topic but also I’m curious at the same time and I’m sure others might be as well. What are some of your favorite hobbies? Do you have or know of any hobbies you might specifically recommend to other blind people as well?
I know from what I can tell so far at least from other blind friends in here is that Music in some capacity seems to be a common theme. But maybe what are some of your other favorites, or do you have others that you might recommend to blind people specifically to try as they may find them easier or more interesting?
This is quite literally anything it could be just getting interested in a specific sport, or some sort of activity or something of that nature. Maybe this is a way that some of us discover a new thing we didn’t think of before.

To all the lovely blind ladies in here I have a question for you as I am curious and I hope this comes off correctly or makes sense. I have a feeling I might word this wrong lol.
Obviously, all of us have things that we struggle with that the average person probably doesn’t think twice about, but I know you ladies have a much different experience than what I would as a guy. So what sorts of things or experiences do you have that are a challenge or impossible compared to the average lady? And how do you overcome, work around or adapt those things?
They could be big or small things like the one thing to me that I would think of that comes to mind is like doing makeup or something I can imagine that’s probably a challenge? How do you do that and are there other things like that that y’all struggle with that most people wouldn’t think twice about?

OK, so I am mostly blind and want kids of my own pretty badly someday though I am only 22 and I am not in any hurry. Heck I’m not even in a relationship lol. However, having kids is something that I think about fairly often, and I know there are blind parents out there, so I’m curious how many of y’all actually have kids, or maybe want kids but don’t have any yet? I’d also be curious to know how old you are but that’s not a requirement more of a frame of reference for me.
If you do have kids, how many do you have? Or if you want kids how many do you think you would want and what factors do you think might change your mind on how many you wanted? Obviously, I know that last part is subjective to each person and probably drastically changes once you actually start living it and not just thinking about it.

Hi everybody first I wanted to thank y’all again for how well this has started off. It’s only been about two weeks or so and I feel pretty happy with how this has gotten started. As of posting this, we are just a few members away from 100 community members, and we are averaging over 100 weekly visitors and have had like 1200 people stop by so thank you and let’s keep this growing!
I wanted to remind everybody, since I presume, maybe this went overlooked, but if you feel like it, whether you are completely blind, have normal eyesight or are somewhere in the middle if you feel like it, feel free to introduce yourself to us!
We have two different post flair types dedicated to intros, one for our normally sighted folks, and another for those of us who are visually impaired or blind. I know I enjoyed reading them and I know there’s a lot more new people here now so I’d love to go through and read more. Plus, I think the intros are good to give perspective as far as once the community gets larger, when you start answering people’s questions from outside, if they feel inclined to go look for more of where your perspective is coming from.
So just wanted to put this out there as a friendly reminder to anybody who maybe is new and missed that or just feels like doing it it’s not an obligation though obviously, i’m not your dad.
Otherwise, just thank you for the great start we’ve had, I want to keep this growing and I’m happy with how it’s done so far, I appreciate all of the cool questions we’ve gotten here and look forward to seeing what other questions we get!

So this is meant to be more of a fun thing as again we like to have fun here as well, and I personally find these things funny at least I’m sure you guys do as well. So what are some of your funniest stories and interactions with sighted people?
This could be just a situation, something someone said or did to you, or as I’m about to explain in a second something you did or almost did to someone else or anything really…
I’ll go first I think this might be entertaining to some of you…

So when I was in middle school, I was in academic challenge, which was basically like quiz bowl whatever you wanna call it. It was a competition type thing and we had 6th, 7th and 8th grade all in this thing. We would also have matches at our school and then also travel to other schools for these. Each of our grades would go up and play a part of the match so it was split into three sections, and in this particular year, I actually happened to be the captain of my portion of the team. So we are at an away match in this particular situation, and I’m sitting with the rest of my team waiting, I’m in 7th grade, so we’re the middle part of the match, I get up from my chair go up to the table with the rest of my part of the team, we do our thing it’s all normal now here’s where it gets interesting…
So before I went up, I had tried to make it a point to remember where my chair was it was somewhere in the middle of the line of chairs, but it was at the front row of them where we are seated with the rest of our team. Well, when I came back to my chair after playing my portion of the match, I went to go sit down in what I thought was my chair and did not check first. What I found out later was that a poor girl who I kind of knew, but was a grade below me and a part of that portion of the team was actually in that chair, and thankfully, she had very quick reflexes and moved and jumped very quietly, so I never knew this until later, but I very nearly sat on her in front of an entire group and crowd of people lol
It turns out the chair that I thought was mine was actually the one next to where I sat down, but to this day, the thought of doing that absolutely horrifies me and also makes me feel like a complete idiot at the same time. I just didn’t see that she was in my chair or that I went to the wrong chair more like it.
So that’s my funny interaction and embarrassing, what’s yours?

OK, so I’ll admit I have been pretty hard on Madden in the past as I feel like as a mostly blind player there haven’t been a ton of improvements in accessibility features, especially with the screen reader in the game. However, I will give credit where credit is due so far this year it seems like there has been at least some decent steps taken with the screen reader for example, it now seems to read the descriptions for settings and stuff which previously it has never done. There are still a lot of parts in the game and menus that I have not been in yet but from what I have found so far I see steps in the right direction, but I also have some issues and hope these can be fixed as these are also important.
So to any developers or anybody who can help this get to the right people to be resolved, the most major issue that I have seen or noticed with the screen reader so far from the time I have spent in the game, is that at least in franchise, when you click into a player profile, it doesn’t read the vertical list of options that usually show up in that, and this is new as this menu has been read aloud in most previous years so this is actually a step backwards. This menu usually includes the options to edit the player and things of that nature so this is actually very important and I really need this to be fixed so that it actually reads with the screen reader.
Also in franchise, I have noticed that things like free agency where in previous years it was kind of set up in a table where you could scroll left and right to read various stats about players like their age, they’re overall, and things like speed and different players statistics I don’t have a way to access or read those within free agency anymore. These are also extremely crucial, and I really need these to be fixed as well because otherwise I don’t have a way of knowing what players have what ratings within free agency and I assume this is probably the same within the contracts menu as well though I have not actually been in there yet. All it reads is the first letter of the players name and then their last name as I scroll vertically there’s no horizontal scrolling. These so far there may be more that I haven’t gotten to yet in different menus, but these are the most important and most needed fixes that I hope our small fixes and can be addressed in an update or patch, please.
Another thing that I have noticed, though it is not the end of the world, but when I am in a menu and changing an option within say like the Settings menu, when I scroll left or right to change the option, it doesn’t seem like the screen reader will read that option as you are changing it. I have to scroll down or up to the next option after changing it and then scroll back down to it to get it to read what it currently is, which is a new issue as this has not been an issue in previous years. It is something that I can live with as the scrolling up and down has been a way to work around it, but it is still an inconvenience be it as it may.

I feel like it’s possible that I could come across other issues the more I play the game, but especially the issues with free agency and not being able to get to that information as well as player profiles our big issues and I will try to give more feedback if or when I find more issues, but I really hope these can be addressed. I feel like I have tried a lot of avenues to get accessibility issues fixed or improved in this game and college and haven’t had much success or seen much change so this is a different method and I hope that it will get to the right people and actually get some changes and updates done.
If more context is needed, I’m happy to give it or help. I just want the game to be more accessible for not only mostly blind players like myself, but anybody who needs accessibility features.
Thank you

OK, so with the NFL preseason starting up tonight it got me thinking to all of the sports fans in here. How do you guys prefer to consume or view your favorite sports and what sports are you into?
Do you guys prefer watching them on TV, listening to the radio broadcast, if you have gone in person, how has that been for you? Or do you have any other way of consuming them that I might not have thought of or known about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskABlindPerson/s/oB2XKLmGEu

A New Community For Asking Questions To The Blind Community

I am blind myself and have seen many AMA topics and things asking blind people questions and I’ve always found that interesting and always liked seeing what questions people with normal eyesight have for us. So I have created a dedicated community for it to ask blind people questions and they might even ask you questions… So if you’re curious or interested in that and are blind, have 2020 vision or even x-ray vision or somewhere in between, come join us I think once we get off the ground discussions there will be pretty interesting. I look forward to seeing what questions everybody has for us and what we might be able to ask you!
We’ve gotten it off to a pretty solid start so far, but we’re always looking for more people to come over, contribute and just enjoy the community that we’re building. We would especially love more of you with normal eyesight who might be curious about things as well!

OK, so I personally use voiceover, and then I have things like XBOX so the narrator on that as well as Jaws on my computer. For a long time, I usually just left the speech rate or speed whatever you wanna call it at the default number so on my iPhone for a long time, it was just on 50 for speech rate. However, I have started over the last month or so slowly increasing it and have found that it is slightly life-changing and I’m now curious what everybody else likes their speech rate at?
I used to think it would be too fast for me to understand, but I have now figured out that if you gradually increase it, you get used to how fast it talks and it becomes easier to understand. Like right now I currently have voiceover on 70 instead of 50 and I’m sure I will continue to slowly increase it. Did y’all do something similar or did you guys start faster or did you leave it slower? Do you guys feel like there’s a point where it is too fast still now?
Or even do y’all think now going back it’s crazy how slow it was? Cause I tried putting it back on 50 the other day just to see and it feels like snail speed now which is crazy to me because that is what I used for so many years.

OK, so I know outside of myself many of you are also into Music and I have a question. What are some good ways and resources to learn music and music theory?
I’m kind of in a bit of a gap between guitar lessons which is a whole other topic for another time, but I’ve been trying to learn more Music theory as well to help with my songwriting. Like right now I’m trying to learn exactly how to put an entire key together like what all the notes are and how to build one off of the root note and what follows it, but I’m pretty sure the video I was watching had a diagram in it that I could not see.
I just started using this app that was recommended to me a while back called Waay, and the guy was talking about how to put the keys together and stuff, but I don’t feel like I completely understood it. I thought I did but then there were like these questions/review things and I was getting them wrong.
I have a pretty solid understanding of the notes, but like my understanding of it was that the third and seventh note of the key were half steps and not a whole note above the previous one I might not be describing that terminology correctly, but hopefully that makes sense so like I will give you an example of one of the ones that I was getting wrong and I can’t figure out where my misunderstanding is coming from. I have an idea, but I’m not 100% sure. I’m wondering if where I was going wrong was that it actually meant a half up after the third and seventh and not for those exact notes.
So for example, I kept getting a question wrong about what notes are included in the key of A flat major, and this is what I put, but I know that it’s wrong:
A flat, B flat, C, D flat, E flat, F, G flat, then back to A flat.
I know this is wrong cause I got the question wrong, but I’m trying to figure out what part I am doing wrong, where my misunderstanding of how this is supposed to work and how to understand it or what correct way to word it is so that I not only know I can do it for this one but carry that same consistency for every key as I know this also is where the basis of scales come from as well. And I’m sure that it will get into this more in the next lesson and stuff, but I need to get this part down first. Also, if you have any other helpful resources that would also be great since a lot of YouTube videos show diagrams, and stuff that don’t get described.
I hope everything I wrote here made sense either way thanks!

OK, so hopefully this is the right place to ask this and I am learning/play guitar so I thought this would be the place to come. I’ve been wanting to learn more music theory stuff as my goal is to be a songwriter and these sorts of things will help with that in terms of building the actual Music part of it. So I found this app or actually got told about it and started doing some of the courses on it. This is in the Melody section and I have a pretty solid basic understanding of how the notes and all that stuff works, but it was talking about building the keys and like all the different notes in a key and how you get them. Now I am mostly blind. I assume they showed some sort of diagram about this as well, but I couldn’t see that, so I’m just trying to figure this out cause I thought I understood it but then they have these like little exercises that you can do and I was missing on some of them.
I think this is also important as well because obviously keys also relate to scales and if I can figure this out, I think that will also relate to my understanding of scales and how they work. And I am very much a why person when it comes to learning things I like to know the reasoning behind it or at least how to get there and build it myself, which is also part of my asking this.
So, without being able to see the diagrams that they may have or may not have had, my understanding of the keys, is you start with the first note, obviously or the tonic note is what they called it, and then it’s basically first and second note our whole notes, third note is a half, fourth fifth and sixth notes, our whole notes, and then the seventh is half but now I’m questioning if I’m understanding that correctly.
So like I will give you an example of what I was doing, and what was apparently a question I got wrong, it wanted me to list all of the notes in the key of A flat, which to me I thought were:
A flat, B flat, C, D flat, E flat, F, G flat, A flat

I’m pretty sure this is wrong considering well it said I got the question wrong. I’m trying to figure out where my understanding is flawed if I misunderstood what the person in the video was saying or where I’m off. I want to make sure not only am I doing this in particular right but that I’m applying the right thought process to all these. I should point out this is in a major key as well. I’m thinking maybe I misheard it and it’s actually saying that it’s a half step up or half note after the third and seventh and not on the third and seventh.
Could someone please explain this to me maybe in a more clear way? It would be appreciated. Thank you.

Have you ever had a question for a blind person? Well, with this newly created community, you have the opportunity to ask it no matter what it is as long as it’s a good faith, respectful question ask away we have several members already who are blind, but we want more of you as well, not only who are blind, but also with normal eyesight to ask us the questions. Oh, and we might ask you questions as blind people as well, so it goes both ways.
Not only that, but we also just want to build community on top of all that so if you’re curious, or maybe you have experience with families and friends, or you’re married, whatever the case may be, we want you here. Come on over, ask away and just join us and enjoy the community and the fun!

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OK, so I saw somebody post about this in another community asking for ideas for a name for their new cane and it made me curious. I’ve personally never done this, but do you guys name your canes?
If so, what are some of the funniest or best names you have given to your cane?
Do y’all do anything else interesting with your canes as well? For example, I have had a couple NASCAR drivers autograph my cane.

Hi everybody first I want to thank everyone who has joined so far. This has gone better than I expected, and thanks to all of you guys who have already made your lovely introductions or some of you have, I thought it was only right that as the creator of this community I should do the same.
So I might not be the best at this, but here goes nothing:
As of writing this, I am just a 22 year old guy proudly from the United States. I’m originally from and grew up in Virginia, right on the coast. I moved to the northeast about five or so years ago now with my family and while I do still miss Home, sometimes, the weather up here is so much nicer and I love it.
I’ve been legally blind since birth, though as I have gotten older, especially over the last six years or so my vision has gotten much worse, especially in my left eye, which now has a spot sort of in its central vision so that’s fun. For a long time, they were not actually sure what the cause of my blindness was and then they gave me a diagnosis at 16, but that turned out to be the incorrect diagnosis. I was also always told that my vision wasn’t supposed to get much worse, so that was a fun surprise when it did, but hey, we make the best of it right.
Turns out my vision is caused by genetics, so ain’t no fixing this anytime soon but that’s OK honestly don’t know if I would want to anyway, but I have LCA and unfortunately, right now. I don’t remember the exact strand of it that I have but I know I have it. I also have a few more common eye issues going on as well, and the spot in my left eye is apparently caused by a very small cataract that is almost casting a shadow in my eye at least that’s how it was described to me. Not significant enough for surgery though I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing but I don’t like the idea of surgery so we’ll call it good.
Outside of the blindness and stuff, though especially as a kid, I was pretty much a normal kid, and in a lot of cases you probably would not have known that my vision wasn’t working as it should be so there’s that and I would say generally speaking that has continued into adulthood, though I did start to notice it affecting things more as I got older and got into things like high school and stuff. However, the one thing I’ve learned through all this is that I’m pretty opinionated and I’m good at advocating for myself and that’s a great skill to have so to anybody out there pick that one up at least.

Anyway, as far as things that I enjoy doing, I have a huge passion for music, especially country music, and my dream is actually to make a living as a songwriter. I do a lot of songwriting in my spare time, or at least lyrics. I haven’t quite figured out the actual music part yet, but I have over 500 songs worth of lyrics written hopefully the other part will come to me soon enough, and I’m also trying to learn guitar and things of that nature as well to help with it. I also love and have a huge passion for racing, especially NASCAR and I have since I was probably 10 years old or so maybe a little younger than that. If there’s a race on during the weekend, there’s a solid chance that I’m watching it so say what you want but I like racing and I think it’s cool. Same thing goes for NFL football, I love football American football for any of my international friends out there.
I also just like being around my family and hope to have a wife and kids of my own someday that’s another dream of mine right up there with the songwriter stuff, and then I like fishing, especially saltwater fishing although I don’t really get to go a whole lot anymore, which is unfortunate. Although fun fact, one of my bucket list items is actually to be able to participate in an offshore fishing tournament at some point like Marlon or something of that nature. My great grandfather made his living as a Waterman, and my granddad did a lot of it as well fishing was and still is pretty popular where I grew up. So I kind of grew up doing it, which is where this stems from.

Anyways, I could ramble for a while, but I think that’s good for now. I’m always happy to answer any questions below and again thanks everybody for joining and I hope this gross much larger!

This post will remain pinned and may also be updated from time to time as this community grows and expands, and we continue to add more categories. This will serve as a guide to new and existing members or those just passing through as to what each one of our post flair categories is intended for and again this may be updated as we may add more of these over time.

Guide:
General Posts And Questions-
This is meant to be a multitude of things and is probably going to be one of if not the most casual parts of this entire community. This might include everything from community updates, rule changes, things of that nature all the way to just fun discussions, general questions, and just fun and enjoyment. Don’t take this section too seriously just have fun and enjoy each other’s company whether you can or can’t see. It might be a catch all, so you might as well throw something in.

Ask Anyone-
Have a question for someone who is blind or maybe they are not blind, or you just simply don’t know which of the other flairs to choose for your question, then this is gonna be the place for you. This is quite literally where you ask anyone.

Ask Blind Women-
Have a question about blindness, but specifically want answers or opinions from the blind ladies, then this is the place to ask. Keep it respectful, of course, but if you’re looking for responses from those ladies who can’t see then this is where you’re gonna wanna be.

Ask Blind Men-
Have a question about blindness, but just looking for answers and opinions from the blind guys, then put your question here and it should be seen or maybe not… by the right eyes, and respect still applies.

Ask Blind Parents-
Ever wondered if people who are blind still have kids and families of their own? Well, here is your chance and place to ask, cause we do! This is a place where you can ask parents who are blind and also have kids of their own how they do it, and any questions regarding that that you might have whether it be one or even both parents who are blind, if you’re lucky, maybe they will find the time to answer your questions.

Ask Parents/Family And Friends Of Blind People-
Here is where you can ask other blind people or those who can see just fine about their experiences with their blind friends and family members. Whether you’re wondering or wanting to ask parents who have a blind child or children a question or maybe you want to ask about a blind family member or friend. You can do it here. Whether you’re wondering how families and friends go about adapting things, maybe how they deal with school systems, how to interact with us or any other questions related to this topic you might think of. I’m sure there’s a lot you could ask here so if you can think of it, and it applies, drop it and see if it flies.

Ask Significant Others Of The Blind Or Blind People About Them-
Ever wanted to ask anyone who is the sighted significant other of a blind person about their experience, or maybe want to ask a blind person who has a sighted significant other what they think of things? Well you can do that here, or maybe you might be asking a totally blind couple, either way if you in need of advice or are curious, ask away. Just be careful, you don’t wanna get yourself in trouble…

Blind People Asking The Sighted-
So you can see, but I bet you didn’t see this coming… Here is where we get to flip the script on you, you guys can see so we might want to ask you a few things. Seems fair you get to ask about what we can’t see and how we do it, I think that should go both ways so keep an eye out cause we can’t… see.

Stupid Questions For Blind People-
Well, this should be interesting, do you have a question for a blind person that you think might be considered potentially stupid, or that you think we might potentially consider stupid? Well, here is what could be possibly your one opportunity to ask that stupid question, but just know we might give our opinion.

If You Can’t See, Introduce Yourself To Me-
This is the place for all of the blind folks to put in their lovely introductions. While the main goal here is questions, we want community as well and it’s good for everybody to know a little bit about you, especially if you’re going to be answering all these questions… So introduce yourselves tell us a little about you.

If You Can See Just Fine, Give An Intro A Try For Us Blind-
Don’t worry if you have perfect eyes, we didn’t forget about you either, so introduce yourselves to us blind. If you’re frequently here or just feel like you want us to know more about you, this is your chance to tell us a little, so make it good. This community is for all, so if you feel inspired, please tell us a little bit about you and what it’s like to be sighted.

Blindness Condition Questions-
Blindness is a spectrum, like a lot of things there are different variations of it and different causes. Similarly there’s a long list of conditions and even some combinations of them that make each individual person see things a little differently. So if you’re wondering about any specific conditions for yourself or in general, ask here maybe someone has it or knows a little more and may be able to help you.

Discussions, Conversations And Stories-
This is for everybody whether you want to just casually discuss something, or whether you have a question or are curious about something that might create more of a discussion rather than just simple responses or answers to questions. This is a place for you to just chill, or a section to discuss whatever or tell some funny stories about experiences you’ve had with blindness, or maybe other sorts of things. This is meant to be a fun and relaxed section, but could also be a bit educational or curiosity driven, a bit of an open book. Just have fun here.

This is all for now, but again remember this may be changed or updated later so if you see something new pop-up and aren’t sure about it check here and you might find some use from all these letters. Otherwise remember to always be respectful and ask good faith questions, enjoy the community and we’ll all be better. Thanks for stopping by and we hope you stick around, this is the guide up and out.