31. too blind to be sighted; too sighted to be blind

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hi hello hey, we got a spicy one this week!

This episode is one we’ve been both excited to make but also terrified. As partially sighted people, we often feel like we live in a perpetual in-between world. We can see, but we also can’t see. Most people in the general public have a difficult time understanding that blind people have a spectrum of visual acuities. Also, since our functional vision depends on many factors, sometimes it’s easier to see things depending the lighting, contrast, distance, and depth. Given all this, we often feel like we need to behave a certain way with and without mobility aids to fit society’s image of us and avoid too many questions in daily life.

This was fun, vulnerable, and even cathartic for us to make, so we really hope you can try to understand our experience, even if it seems foreign to you. We hope you enjoy!

show notes

• Casey mentions the Our Generation blind doll! Check it out!
• Cassandra references our how we see episode which gives some context to how we can see
• Casey mentions our representation in media episode