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The Importance of Consent in Blindness
In the book, you write about being touched for the first time when someone was guiding you. The part of that just made me shudder like physically when I read it, that people feel like they have the right to touch you and guide you. You know, a blind friend told me that during the pandemic, when that kind of proximity to other people became much more taboo, she loved it because it meant when she was in public, people just were touching her far less.