u/MikeLovesOutdoors23

I posted this in r/blind. But I thought I would post it here as well to get sighted peoples opinion and input on this as well.

Hey there. So I'm legally blind, but I don't have enough vision to really be usable in this type of setting. I'm 22 years old, and I still live with my mother, and we go to concerts together, and recently, last night, I went to a Searows concert. We usually go to classic rock shows, so this was quite different, and I'm pretty sure My mother was the oldest one there, lol.
This is the first time that the crowd mostly consisted of younger people, and I was hoping to make new friends at this concert, because I'm really trying to make new friends in real life, but it's extremely difficult. And whenever I'm with my mother, it's just really hard, because she can be judgmental of people's looks and everything, because she was last night, and whenever I asked her if there was anybody alone or whatever, or people I could just introduce myself to, she was like "it looks like everybody's with their friends" and then proceeded to not really help me any further.
This concert venue was standing room, with a few tables on either side. But I don't really know this place that well, and I wasn't about to just go off on my own and walking in random directions, trying to find people to talk to, although I'm not really sure if I should've just done it or not. I just didn't wanna look like an idiot.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Going to concerts alone, or with a guide, or something, and then meeting new people and making friends at that concert with strangers? I really feel like I blew it last night, because there were so many people there, but nobody really walked up to me because I was with my mother, so I'd probably looked like I wasn't available for hanging out or something.
It just gets really hard with visual cues, trying to figure out by sound alone is extremely difficult because I have no clue if people are wanting other people to just come up randomly and talk to them about the music or whatever, it's just so confusing and I need help with this.

Hey there. So I'm legally blind, but I don't have enough vision to really be usable in this type of setting. I'm 22 years old, and I still live with my mother, and we go to concerts together, and recently, last night, I went to a Searows concert. We usually go to classic rock shows, so this was quite different, and I'm pretty sure My mother was the oldest one there, lol.
This is the first time that the crowd mostly consisted of younger people, and I was hoping to make new friends at this concert, because I'm really trying to make new friends in real life, but it's extremely difficult. And whenever I'm with my mother, it's just really hard, because she can be judgmental of people's looks and everything, because she was last night, and whenever I asked her if there was anybody alone or whatever, or people I could just introduce myself to, she was like "it looks like everybody's with their friends" and then proceeded to not really help me any further.
This concert venue was standing room, with a few tables on either side. But I don't really know this place that well, and I wasn't about to just go off on my own and walking in random directions, trying to find people to talk to, although I'm not really sure if I should've just done it or not. I just didn't wanna look like an idiot.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Going to concerts alone, or with a guide, or something, and then meeting new people and making friends at that concert with strangers? I really feel like I blew it last night, because there were so many people there, but nobody really walked up to me because I was with my mother, so I'd probably looked like I wasn't available for hanging out or something.
It just gets really hard with visual cues, trying to figure out by sound alone is extremely difficult because I have no clue if people are wanting other people to just come up randomly and talk to them about the music or whatever, it's just so confusing and I need help with this.

Saw Searows last night in Milwaukee, and Jordan Patterson opened for him. I checked out her album beforehand and I was a huge fan, and she did so well live.
Just wondering what others think of her music.
Searows of course was incredible last night.

Hey there. I'm blind, and I just recently learned that the uncanny Valley is a thing, and someone tried explaining it to me. But I'm not really sure if I can experience it because it seems like the uncanny Valley is based on visual perception.
Is there an uncanny Valley but for sound, or touch, smell, taste? This concept is so intriguing, because it's so specific.

Hey there. I posted on here a little while ago, I'm the blind guy. And I have another idea for like a stand-up comedy bit. But I honestly have no clue how to execute it and I was hoping for some help.

I'm aware that a lot of comedians talk about what they look like and make jokes around that, like someone will say "I look like if someone from Walmart was obsessed with the produce section" or some other random shit like that. Or they look like a celebrity, or something like that. This makes no sense to me because I can't see what people look like. And I honestly wanted to make a joke around that concept. But I don't really know where to go with it.
I can take a picture of myself and post it in the comments if you need something to go off of.

I feel like this could be hilarious coming from somebody who is blind, and I have pretty good and sarcastic delivery.

My birth name is Michael. And there are a ton of Michael's everywhere. I used to think it was cool, but now it's just confusing because I'm blind and if there are other people named Michael around me, and someone calls for the name Michael, I have no clue if it's me or not. I ran into this problem last year when I went to a camp, and there was a Michael in my cabin, and I literally was like "I'm fucking done with this, I'm changing my name for the week to August" because I didn't want to be called Mike either, because I just didn't want things to get confusing.

I'm wondering if there is anyone else who actually went through with a name change because they didn't like how popular their name was.

So I was raised Catholic, I'm not Catholic anymore. But I still have to go to church on holy days of obligation.

When going to church, is it more polite to just go through the motions of the service and say what you're supposed to, or just stay silent? I'm not really sure what the etiquette is for someone who is in the church yet does not believe in God.