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50 Diabolical, Unhinged And Funny Questions This Blind Guy Answered About Himself
Sometimes we do not realize how much of a gift our sight is. The WHO estimates that there are 40 to 45 million people worldwide who are blind. What's more, 135 million also have low vision. An abled person can hardly imagine what it's like living with visual impairment.
Luckily, they can ask. Recently, a 24-year-old blind creator, Toby, asked his followers to give him the most 'diabolical' questions they could think of, and the people delivered. From wiping mechanics and how he's able to read the comments, to whether he would give up his hearing to have his sight back – the netizens didn't hold back.
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
Also contact charities like RNIB who will help you with advice, practical support and be there to just simply listen if you need to talk. Get as much help as possible from organisations like this - that's what they're there for.
This blind creator is Toby Addison, and he has been talking about his life as a visually impaired person since around 2022. In one of his videos, Toby has detailed what condition he has and how he was diagnosed at an early age. At about 2 or 3 years old, Toby's doctor told his parents that he had genetic retinitis pigmentosa and cone-rod dystrophy (CRD).
He describes it as having tunnel vision. He was able to live his life pretty normally: he could read and write growing up, play video games, and play football with his friends. But as the years went on, the field of his vision became smaller and smaller.
He retained his sight until he was 16 years old, but has had very limited vision since then. As he mentioned in one of the comments below this video, he does see very minimally. "I can tell it's daytime or nighttime; I can tell if the lights are on in my home, and I can sometimes see if there are shadows blocking that light. But I've got no usable vision."
Toby talks about his visual impairment on his social media accounts to raise awareness about visual disabilities. There are a lot of misconceptions about visually impaired people, and he tries to dispel at least some of them. Toby has done a Q&A video on his YouTube channel before and was even a guest on the Happy Hour Podcast and gave an interview to LADbible.
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Clown fish 3 months ago
Lol me and another friend did this to an old school friend. He asked us to go in and feed the cat whilst he was away. He came home aday early and was just sat on the sofa in the dark! Me and my other friend nearly punched him 😂
Here's one thing you probably wouldn't expect from a blind person: Toby is a footballer! He plays for West Brom and the England squad, and before you ask, no, it's not your regular football. Blind football is the adapted version of the sport for visually impaired people.
The sport is played in more than 60 countries, and since 1996 it has been governed by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Since the 2004 Athens Paralympics, blind football has been featured during every Games to this day.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
Also, the want to film everything and photograph everything. Most of the time I'm seeing something I don't even get my phone, I just wanna experience it, something a camera can't capture....other times, I take a photo.
How does blind football even work? Athletes play by modified FIFA rules. Each team has four outfield players and one sighted or partially sighted goalkeeper. The players can hear the ball due to a sound system inside it, and teams can also have off-field guides to assist them with orientation.
The pitch is much smaller compared to a regular football field and is covered in kickboards so the ball doesn't go out of play. The match is 30 minutes in total, with two 15-minute halves.
Here's a compilation of the best goals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics if you want to see how the game is played!
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Deta Rossiter 3 months ago
this is the one fear i have in life, i think i will survive anything else. but my losing my sight will be the thing that ends me
It's quite unusual for young people to become blind. Research shows that about three-quarters of blindness and visual impairment cases occur in people aged 50 and over. Blind individuals also need assistance more often than individuals with low vision.
This French national survey also found that 1.6% of blind respondents were living in a facility, while 0.10% were living in the community. On the other hand, only 1.94% of individuals with low vision lived in the community, while 13.4% lived in institutions.
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
For a start they can and do ask! Braille is also usually in standard locations (near doors, near lift buttons) and at a standard height, there are guidelines for placement. There are also specialised apps that can detect and interpret Braille signs through the phone's camera, providing audio feedback (though I've not known anyone who used it). Used to work for RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) in the UK and the offices used sharply contrasting colour to help those with residual vision as well as braille in obvious locations. Anyone learning braille will get clued in as to where/what to look for. For info, don't be anywhere near a machine that 'prints' braille!! Those machines are NOISY!!! 🙂
In the UK, blind and visually impaired individuals receive support from their councils, but sometimes that help can come too late. Last year, a report by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) found that some individuals who have received certificates of visual impairment might need to wait more than a year for rehabilitation assessments so they can receive support.
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Agfox 3 months ago
Geeze, that made me remember a TV interview with Stevie & the guy interviewing started off with "Good to see you again, Stevie". Probably being used to hearing that, Stevie responded with "Good to see you, too" without any trace of sarcasm in his voice. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the interviewer
What's worse, a 2023 survey by the RNIB revealed that 115,000 blind or visually impaired people do not receive any kind of support during their lifetime. "RNIB has heard directly from many blind and partially sighted people who have experienced wait times far beyond what is safe or expected, but to find at least 2,025 people were left waiting for more than six months to receive a vision rehabilitation assessment is shocking," the institute wrote in its report.
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Carrie de Luka 3 months ago
You can become light sensitive but also the sun still damages your eye (always wear sunglasses in the sun people, prevent those cataracts as much as possible).
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Blind and visually impaired people face many challenges, but discrimination might be one of the most pressing. In a 2019 survey, 52% of older UK adults with visual impairment said they felt discriminated against. Those with poor eyesight also said they were more likely to feel depressed, lonely, and dissatisfied with their lives.
Discrimination often comes from a lack of information. So, let's hope that Toby's work as a disability advocate on social media will reach more and more people as time goes by. For now, take a look at the rest of his answers – some whimsical, others more serious – and let us know which ones surprised you the most!
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nicholas nolan 3 months ago
America and other countries that have identical bill sizes need to change to differently sized denominations. I've thought that ever since I found out Ray Charles used to demand to be paid in singles.
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Laura Gillette 3 months ago
When we had a roomba, it used to trap itself in the bathroom. It'd go in there, somehow get around behind the door, and push the door shut, then do it's "help I'm stuck" noise.
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
Sorry, me commenting again but I used to know a blind lawyer who can fly planes and is a keen rally driver! Also, I've had the privilege of hearing a talk by the motivational speaker and British Adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber. He gave us lowly lot at RNIB an amazing speech, had us in stitches and you do come away thinking you can do almost anything! Fairly sure he could become a crime-fighter if he wanted to! Listening to him describe undertaking the Marathon Des Sables is something I'll never forget... hiliarious despite (or because of) all the disasters!! https://www.mileshilton-barber.com/
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Joey Marlin 3 months ago
I've worked with many blind people in two different organisations - they don't tend to care about this kind of thing. It's just everyday phraseology. There are bigger problems to get bothered by.
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
This one can be very frustrating for blind people. I was guiding two men across London and someone thinking they were being helpful grabbed one of the men and got him through the underground barriers whilst I was still rummaging for my ticket! That would be fine - if he had asked!! All you have to do is say 'would you like any assistance?' and then if they do just offer an elbow for them to hold, they'll find it (RNIB trains people on how to guide as well as the blind person on how to be guided). Do NOT grab at them and pull them around. I was presenting to a group of people once on RNIB's work and played a video of a blind man being grabbed and pulled about by someone well meaning when getting off a train and one of the group thought it was unfair that the grabbed man was complaining as the person 'meant well'. So I went over to them, grabbed them and yanked them out of their chair and hauled them about a bit They didn't much like it... Who would?
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rullyman 3 months ago
I lost my smell with covid (got it before vaccinations were avaliable for my age group, and it was awful. Everything just "smelled" cold. It made me feel lonely and displaced. I was relying on smell to make me feel at home, I guess. Still, it probably is the best sense to lose
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
Unfortunately, sometimes it's not possible. Guide dogs I've known (in the UK) have been trained to go in the gutter. It reduces the area you have to search and it's usually possible to pick it up. As Toby says though, no legal obligation to. When you're letting the dog exercise and run about - no chance. Colleague of mine, he was letting his guide dog run around in a nearby park and the dog would not come back to him (off harness and not working, they can at times be naughty!). In the end he had to call for a search party. Didn't find the dog. Went home, dog was waiting on the doorstep!
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Mir Adwari 3 months ago
You can buy buttons that are different shapes and feel that can be sewn on somewhere discreet so that you know an item is a certain colour/pattern, eg triangle might mean green. Also braille or tactile labels and NFC tags that can be scanned - technology has been of enormous benefit to blind people. One of the blind ladies I worked with said TV Shopping is also excellent for buying clothes as they describe things in quite a lot of detail.
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Robert Trebor 3 months ago (edited)
I hate being identified by a condition. I have diabetes but won't say I'm a diabetic. To me that would be like saying "I'm cancer". The condition limits me but I refuse to let it define me
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
That's be a cool concept for a movie or short film, exploring the types of vision.
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Auntriarch 3 months ago (edited)
There is retinitis pigmentosa in Mr Auntriarch's mother's family. One of his cousins was forever walking into people but he hated using the white cane. He got slightly roughed up one time, so he started using it, so that people would walk round him instead of assuming he could see and was just being rude.
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Molly A. Block 3 months ago
Being blind is almost like having some kind of super power that I can't explain
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Molly A. Block 3 months ago
I'm surprised at how many people don't know it's called a 'white cane.'
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Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 3 months ago
A friend of mine was born blind. He graduated in philosophy and taught in high schools for 40 years. Schools provided him with an assistant, but he was and is completely autonomous. He could even "feel" when students cheated or read from the book when he questioned them!
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Lila Allen 3 months ago
This is a very odd question. Why would you think someone with a disability couldn't have inappropriate beliefs?
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Huddo's sister 3 months ago
This is why the coins and notes are all different shapes and sizes in Australia. The latest lot also have Braille.
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Julie S 3 months ago (edited)
There is a comedian in the UK who is blind and he thought his new neighbour was rude but it turned out that the neighbour was deaf. He would say hello and the neighbour would ignore him and the neighbour would wave and he'd ignore him because he couldn't see him waving.
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Jennifer Green 3 months ago
He can also cook with the lights on, and find his mouth to eat, enjoy the food ! Lol 😜
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Ann Kapoxeet 3 months ago
Definitely. Kids still love it. Kinda sweet that they can appreciate something so simple, but I'm convinced they cheat more than I was a kid. But i was probably just naive.
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Auntriarch 3 months ago (edited)
Sighted people have been known to "canoodle" in the dark surely. I've never had trouble finding my way around.
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Carrie de Luka 3 months ago
Not exactly accurate... There is evidence suggesting a protective effect of congenital blindness against schizophrenia. Studies indicate that individuals who are born blind, especially due to cortical blindness, have a significantly lower chance of developing schizophrenia. This protective effect is thought to stem from alterations in brain development and sensory processing that occur as a result of early blindness. Schizophrenia is associated with abnormalities in visual processing, including hallucinations and delusions, which might be linked to inaccurate predictions based on visual information. Blindness acquired later in life does not appear to offer the same protection.
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Jennifer Green 3 months ago
Bongo Bongo - what did you think the answer was going to be ? Honestly 🥴🫣🤣
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 3 months ago
I'm sighted and unfortunately can't picture things in my head (makes talking aboutsome gross things easier though lol)
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Jennifer Green 3 months ago
Toby what a fabulous idea this was informative for us sighted people but honestly some of the questions made me laugh out loud! I think your wonderful with a fantastic sense of humour keep smiling 😊
Jennifer Green 3 months ago
Toby what a fabulous idea this was informative for us sighted people but honestly some of the questions made me laugh out loud! I think your wonderful with a fantastic sense of humour keep smiling 😊
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