About me

[Nitro]

Welcome back and thank you for sharing.
I hope you find your time here educational,supportive and friendly.
I can sense that it is difficult to explain sight if you have never experienced it,but you did a fine job of doing so.
As the self-appointed mayor of Aspieville,I extend a warm welcome from our community and hand you the key to our city my fair lady.

 

[Epicurean Pariah]

Hi. I am 32, totally blind, and have Asperger's Syndrome. I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy things. Some authors I enjoy are: Margaret Weis And Tracy Hickman, Terry Goodkind, Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, Robbin Hobb, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkein, and George R.R. Martin. Some shows I enjoy are: Criminal Minds, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Star Trek Voyager, Charmed, Doctor Who, Sliders, And Once Upon a time. Just so everyone knows, I am very in touch with my inner child, only, I see it as a part of who I am, not as something I have to get in touch with. I therefore enjoy hanging out with children/or anyone whom I have things in common with. That being said: some movies I enjoy are: Lilo And Stitch, The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking, Aladdin, The Lion King, Frozen, and Beauty and the Beast. Some cartoons I enjoy are: Rugrats, Recess, Lilo and Stitch the Animated Series, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Dragon Tales, The Fairly Odd Parents, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and Making Fiends. I believe in or am interested in: ghosts, aliens, psychics, reincarnation, and parallel earths. Just looking for friends. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

WA, I am delighted to welcome you here. I am sure you will find good friends and advice on this forum. Your interests are shared with many of us. You will find the level and intensity ranges from the frivolous and superficial to some very deep thought including parallel universes and " Matrix" like thoughts. Enjoy us, we are glad that you found us.

 

[Epicurean Pariah]

Welcome Wednesday. I have been a science fiction fan since my youth in the 50's. I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Tolkien, Bradbury and the great magazines, Amazing and Analog.

Best wishes for you.

EdR, me too, please expand on other interests.

 

[tree]

Hi. Cool description of the photo. Tree, most blind people can do things like listen to the TV, haha. So that isn't much of a surprise. There are also some audio described shows. Also, there are blind people who enjoy sports. We are not helpless, and can do many of the things sighted people can do. Since I have been blind all my life, I always just listen to things, so why wouldn't I listen to the tv? It's not that different from listening to everything else in my day to day life. As for the lights: I'd probably keep forgetting about them. Hahaha. Since they do not make any sound for me to remember their existence. Lol.

Well it was the other people at work that
didn't understand about having television
if a person was blind. I used to like listening
to television programs on the radio. The only
way that could have been better was if there
was no laugh track.
Laugh tracks spoil a lot of television shows.

 

[Datura]

There was a period of time when I had to spend a lot of time in my bedroom tending to myself after having surgery. I found that most television is fairly easy to follow simply by listening. First of all, the majority of a given program is dialogue driven, so you don't need to see a thing to get the idea.
Action scenes are trickier, but you can still glean a lot of information from sound effects and musical cues. Quite often there is also a bit of dialogue interspersed which provides context to what you are hearing.
If you ever listen to old radio plays you might also come to realize just how much modern television borrows from that medium.



As for true blindness; when I try to imagine it I ask myself, "What do I see through the small of my back?" That provides a pretty good answer, I think.

 

[Wednesday Addams]

Actually, I have a friend who is visually impaired. She has a prosthetic eye. She told me that if she closes the eye she has vision in, it looks black to her, but the eye she has never seen out of isn't the same. She said it just looks like nothing, which varrified what I always believe to be the case. If anyone has any questions or whatever, let me know. Also I'm on IRC, and see a aspies-central chatroom, but there is hardly ever anyone there. I go by a different name out there on Irc. Anyway, if anyone else is out there, or in other aspie channels on IRC, let me know. Irc is Internet Relay Chat by the way. That way we can type to each other in real time.