2026-09-17 18:13 UTC
Anyway, the journey of having only one useful eye has been wild. I didn't realise how much worse my eyesight is than the average. My neurologist will say "take your glasses off... now follow my finger..." and I'm like "what finger?" And he's bemused every time! I love this guy. He's a great doctor. But my eyesight being so godawful that I can't see his finger a metre away is just wild to him.
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@linguacelta@toot.wales 2026-09-17 18:16
But, here's the thing. Accessibility isn't just about us "disabled" people with our totally weird shit going on. It's about the millions of people who need to wear glasses, or who maybe are starting to need hearing aids, or their joints are a bit creaky. There's a narrative of accessibility as an extraordinary thing, needed by a minority. This relies on the average person's certainty that they aren't disabled. You're either disabled, or you're not disabled yet. Accessibility is for all of us.