u/MikeLovesOutdoors23

I'm blind, and I just never understood what these are. I sort of understand lip syncing is basically singing without actually singing.. (which.. how? How do you sing without making sound? My voice just automatically does.) but I don't understand why it's so popular to watch?
I remember that one of the camps that I went to, they had a lip sync battle, and nobody really took the time to describe anything to me, and everyone was just reacting around me, cheering, laughing, and I didn't know what was going on, and I just was disappointed and left out. So I kind of like to know what the big deal is?
I just thought of this because a few days ago my mother was watching Saturday Night Live and there was a lip sync battle on there, she was laughing really hard and she was like "oh my God this is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time" and I was just like… "OK, cool. Whatever. I don't get it". And she doesn't describe things well, so I didn't even ask.
Hoping you guys can help me understand. I'm just so curious and confused.

I love this song, and I'm obsessed with the electric guitar on it. It just sounds so different and I've never heard anything like it. I don't think he has used this sound in any of his other music, I've heard all of his albums, and I haven't heard anything like it. Are there any other artists who have done anything similar?

It's gotten to the point where I just don't wanna talk to anybody online because they're not actually with me and I can't interact with them in person. Does anyone else have this issue? I feel even more lonely just talking to people on FaceTime all the time.

Katie (yes, I am going to spell her name wrong from now on, on purpose.) is sexually assaulting all these guys at that party. And the producers are just… Letting this happen? They're not stepping in to get this girl the help that she clearly needs. Yet they stepped in with Debbie and stupid actor guy?

This is absolutely disgusting, and the producers and directors and everyone else a part of this show are equally at fault for just letting this shit happen. And Josh is just a fool.

Someone needs to take Katie to an alcoholics anonymous meeting. get her therapy, medication, something.

Hey there. I'll try to explain this. Does anyone have any triggers that they are just not able to escape, not because you still live with a person that triggers you, but in a way that it's prevalent in daily life, media, people talk about it a lot, stuff like that. I'll give you an example.

I'm terrified of anything that has to do with the feeling of shaking. Especially the feeling of being shaken by something or someone, and this goes as far as even reading or hearing the word shake. This stupid fucking movement is everywhere, and people talk about it all the time because it's a specific movement and it's so common. In songs, stories, posts on Reddit where people could just be talking about anything, and that word shows up.

I actively prepare myself to encounter that word, and that still doesn't work a lot of the time, and it's hard because people don't take me seriously because it's such an uncommon thing to be scared of.

Is to the point where I wish I just was triggered by something else or had a completely different fear, either of something like spiders or heights, something that's extremely common and tolerated in society to where people understand it. Or, I wish I had such an uncommon trigger or fear to where I could just avoid it altogether because it only shows up in certain places. Maybe like a fear of the concept of parasailing or something. Look, if I have to get triggered by a specific word, at least make that word uncommon.

Does anyone else have the problem that I have? I feel like I'm alone in this.

I have a ton of hyper fixation and interests and object loves, but they're uncommon. I hear people always talking about cars, computers, robots, and stuff like that. I'm wondering if anyone is attracted to the things that I am. I just don't want to be alone in this.

Carts! (This has been a huge thing the past few months. They are like the greatest ever!!! There's so many different types of carts, and I don't know which one is the best. OK fine, hotel luggage carts! Because they combine carts and arches!)

Arches. "Any of them. But it's so cool if they are architectural, because then I can walk through them! And it's also really cool if I find little arches that I can hold in my hand. The greatest part about this one is that so many things can make the shape of an arch, and when I found out that I could make that shape with my body as well, that was just incredible.)

Hearts. (Like actual anatomical hearts. I wish I could hold a real one, but for now, I have a replica made from a mahogany obsidian crystal. It's so cool!)

Trees. (All kinds of trees, but I've been really fascinated with black Willows. And I love trees that you can lay in, like natural hollows, and stuff like that. No, I've never been in a treehouse, and I am dying to! I want to so bad, but I have no clue where one is, I'm in Wisconsin if anybody has recommendations!)

Hooves. (This is honestly more of a fascination than anything, because I'm blind, and I have no clue what a hoof is supposed to feel like, so therefore, I have hyper fixated on it because I want to find out! They just seem so cool!)

Crystals. (Rocks, stones, pretty much anything like that. Crystal healing is cool, getting to know a crystal personally is even better!)

Then I just have a bunch of words that I love, and this gets crazy because some of the words I love, I don't love experiencing what the word is, like "dive". Obsessed with the word dive. Absolutely beautiful! I love hearing it. But I sure as hell do not want to experience diving. Yeah I loved the sentence that I just typed out, but I'm terrified of a lot of movement, and the action of diving just sounds terrifying. Maybe if I said the word over and over again while I experience the movement would make me like the movement more, who knows?!

That's kind of all I can think of for now. If anyone is curious about anything or wants to talk about any of these things, let me know. Hoping I can make some friends here who understand me.

Hey there. I'm blind, and I've posted some of my jokes on here before. I'm not really sure if this is the best place to post about this, but I just figured I'd try.

Genuine question. As a stand-up comedian, is it important to be visually expressive, using hand gestures or whatever? Or can you get away with just standing there and telling jokes and stories and things like that?

The reason this came to me was because I was scrolling through this community and I was looking through posts and comments, and I came across something about making a joke better by acting it out while you're telling it.

I don't use hand gestures when talking, I don't really move when talking either, I'm not really in control of my facial expressions so I can't really act visually, I can only act using my voice. And I'm just wondering if that might be a problem?

Hey hey! Blind system here, and I'm so glad that there is an accessible trend for ones!
We're gonna try to figure out how to do this, so it might take a while for us to get back to you guys because we have no clue how to figure out which one of us is what number.
Pick a number up to 363.
Choose carefully. We have a lot, and a lot of them are very… Interesting. Our brain comes up with very interesting things. Strange.
You know how you can have alters that are just here and you have no clue why, and all they do is just some random thing and you have no clue why they're here? Yeah, we have a lot of that. 😂
Honestly, have no clue how many we have at this point. There was no way we had enough attention span to just physically count them all. We put it into ChatGPT and asked it to count. It said 363. And then we regenerated it just to be sure and then it keeps giving different answers. So what the hell?

Hey there. Can't believe I'm posting here, but I figured this would be a good place to ask.

I'm blind, and I'm currently trying to figure out the world and explore, and really think about concepts and trying to figure out if I understand them or not. I'm 22 years old, and I realized a few months ago that I have no clue what a hoof is supposed to feel like. I know there are two different types, and people have tried describing them to me, but it's just so hard for me to imagine without actually feeling one.
I live in Wisconsin, and I have gotten a chance to feel a lot of things, (a lot of different skulls, teeth, claws), but it doesn't seem like anyone has hoofs.
It would be cool to feel both types of hooves, "cloven and solid), and it would be even better if the leg was attached to it, because I have no clue how it's supposed to connect to the leg either.

No clue if anyone is able to help with this, but I've just been curious about this for a while, and thought I would ask

I've always been curious as to how people can be so resilient after being in a car crash. Plenty of people still drive cars even after being in multiple crashes, I'm sure a lot of of that is because we are so dependent on cars. and I've always wondered if there has ever been situations where a person was in a crash, had to go to the hospital for injuries, but would refuse to go home because they are so scared of cars and traumatized by that experience that they are not willing to get in a car to go home.
I wonder what the procedure would be like in this case, what would happen immediately? I know that therapy would be involved, but I know that therapy doesn't just cure fears immediately.
I'm assuming that a hospital can't just let them stay there.

Ever since the new update came out a few days ago, where they changed the memory, and now it's like a memory summary, I've noticed that it does not remember a lot of things at all specifically anymore. However, when I revert back to the legacy model of it, then it's completely fine It seems like.

I'm just wondering if anyone else is having this issue, and if anyone else is frustrated by this?

I've carefully added memories because of a project I'm working on, and a lot of it's very specific. And it's just quite annoying.

To make things worse, I've also heard that the legacy version is going to not be there entirely one day. I'm not sure how long we have until that happens or if it's even true.

Why do companies have to keep updating things when we are completely happy with older versions that work just fine. (Sighs)

Hey there, everyone. So this medical transportation service is covered by my insurance, I am in the United States, in Wisconsin.

I called them a few days ago to set up a ride to this group therapy that I go to, just to see if it could be a transportation system that I could use independently. The appointment is at 1 PM, and the pick up time I set was 12-15.

Well, It's around 12 PM now, and they apparently came at 10:56 AM, I did not notice the van out there, and I did not have my phone on me at the time, but I got to my phone five minutes later, and I received text from them saying "are you here for your ride today?" I texted them back and I said "I do not have a ride until 12:15 PM" and they just said "OK"

Yeah, we are off to a good start here.

Does anyone have any experience with this transportation system, and is it reliable? Should I continue with this moving forward?

Update! They picked me up at the right time this time, and I got to the appointment. Hopefully they will pick me up at the correct time on the way back. My Hope has been restored.

So I'm blind, and as the rest of you can hopefully see, I have a white cane that I use to get around. but I just call it a cane because how am I supposed to know what color it actually is?

A lot of people call this cane by the wrong names. I've heard people refer to it as a stick, a pole, a staff, a light saber, a rod, and a baton. Yeah.. and to make it worse, the baton guy immediately said afterwards "wait wait wait! Is your cane male or female? Because if it's male, it would be called a baton, and if it's a female, it would be called a batonya.". it made me feel really good knowing that all the other sighted people around me were also confused. Yes! Finally, I'm not the only one! Although looking back on it, I should've fucked with him and said "actually, my cane is non-binary, so now what would it be called?".

Now let me get this straight. This is a cane. A stick is something that comes from a tree.
A pole is something that I walk into if someone is bad at guiding me. Yeah, thanks Mom!
A lightsaber is something from Star Wars. I have no clue what it looks like, but judging from the sound it makes, it's definitely not an improved mobility aid.
A staff.. well, I thought that just referred to someone in charge. But I guess some random person from history said something like "I have my rod and my staff," which… I thought those were the same thing? Wow! That person must've really been Blind if he had two canes.
And a baton, someone was trying to explain to me what that was earlier, because I've never felt one before. And then someone else told me that there were multiple different types of batons, and I just gave up trying to figure it out, so if anybody has a baton lying around..

and a batonya.. well nobody knows what that is except for David from high school apparently.

Let me know what you think of this, I'm so excited to actually have something started! I've posted before about possible ideas, and I do have more ideas that I'll probably write down in the future for feedback, but this is what I'm probably going to open the set with.

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.