Living with Blindness: Experiences and Challenges

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This chapter delves into the day-to-day life of a blind person, discussing both positive encounters with excellent customer service and negative experiences where people overcompensate in their kindness. It also explores the emotional side of losing one's vision, including feelings of incompetence and struggles with adjusting to a new way of interacting with the world.

How does it feel to have a visual impairment? How do blind people navigate the world? How do other people treat you, if you are blind? And, how do we talk about blindness and other forms of disability in English? This episode is inspired by a listener called Hafid, who contacted me recently. I talk about the subject of blindness and disability in general, read an article written by a partially sighted person, and explain a list of words and phrases we should use when describing different forms of disability. Also includes various medical vocabulary such as the different parts of the eye and other related topics.

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