#but it is LITERALLY just a SMIDGE above legal blindness

[senseiwu]

YES YES YES YES

People seem to think vision is just "good" "fixed with glasses" or "nothing". It's so freaking annoying!!!! "You're blind? 🤨 but you use a phone."

Newsflash, for one: there's a whole freaking "ACCESSIBILITY MENU" in phones' settings so blind people of varying degrees, INCLUDING TOTALLY BLIND, can use them.

Some peoples' vision is worse at night.

Some people have dark spots in their vision. Or they only have a pinprick.

Or you're totally blind in one eye and have crappy vision in the other.

We're all under the term "blind".

i don't think people take me too serious when i say i'm legally blind. Like, guys I am legally never allowed to drive, I need assistance with a lot of stuff because I can't see. People both irl and online tend to be like "oh but you're not THAT BAD OFF" it's not a thing of whether my eyes are "that bad off" it doesn't matter, they're still blind. i still use magnifying and screen readers. i'm learning braille because my eyes are getting progressively worse and I'd like to be able to still read.

I may not be totally blind, but that's the thing, a lot of blind people AREN'T Totally blind. Blindness is a spectrum. and i don't think a lot of people realize that. And I'm just as valid in my blindness as someone on the spectrum with better eyesight than me, or someone with worse.

(This is OK to reblog. I hope that sighted people who might read this really get it into their heads that blindness is a spectrum...)