(a basic braille alphabet) I fall into the 90 % of blind who do not know braille, something I plan to change in the future. While screenreaders are wonderful, as is zoomtext, I miss the ability to sit down with a large book and read the day away. Listening is far from the same, and … More Braille
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 570 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 10 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … More 2015 in review
Originally posted on Silence Breaking Sound:
TW/Content note: Abuse of autistic people; demonstrative use of disability slur; self-injury; in-depth descriptions of being in the middle of a meltdown. UPDATE: The article on The Mighty that led to this post has been taken down. — The Bingo Sheet meme has existed as a way for marginalized communities to…
(featured photo says with a Santa all I want for Christmas is for it all to be over) This blog actually usually rather happy, well there was that Autism cake post, and the don’t assume, but mostly I am a rather happy person. I am the picture of the bright and sunny girl, shall we … More Merry Christmas, or not…
(woman in wedding dress looking out window, waiting) For as long as I can remember I have dreamed of my wedding day. I a beautiful dress, long sleeves, lace like both my mother’s and grandmother’s. I never could see who it was waiting at the end. First a priest was the one to marry us, … More My courtship, the one that never happened
”Cake saying Happy birthday Mandy in messy letters. Or as I like to think of it the inspiration porn cake”. I am Autistic, have been since I took my first breath like this woman who decorated this cake. Nothing I do is going to change this fact. Why has this made so many rounds on … More Sometimes it is more than just being nice
If you are my friend on facebook surely by now you know that I am a Harry Potter, correct that Severus Snape fan. I found a photos that explain my reasoning that I thought I would share the one that is the feature photo for this post says ”not every Hufflepuff is weak, with Cedric … More Severus Snape, Sirius Black, and others
I think every blind blogger has talked about this, and any disabled person understands what I am talking about, but I am doing it anyway because of frustration. I will not bite you; well unless you ask. 😉 I don’t have have a disease that you can get from being near me. My disabilities are … More I don’t bite, and yes I can hear.
I will be honest I didn’t know what I wanted to call this, or even if I wanted to write this. Holidays in general are a big thing for me, but mainly thanksgiving and Christmas. This is my first ”holiday season” blind. This is also the first without my mother. Someone who I feel both … More Thanksgiving blind
If you haven’t noticed by reading my blog, I am a Autistic who feels no cure is needed, and I believe in neuro diversity, but if you haven’t well I just told you. The link below is to the the post that started, my thoughts for this one, and mainly how wrong it is. http://autism.about.com/od/autismterms/g/neurotypical.htm?utm_content=20151119&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exp_nl&utm_campaign=list_autism&utm_term=list_autism … More Neuro typical and why I use the term
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