50 Diabolical, Unhinged And Funny Questions This Blind Guy Answered About Himself

I think this has to be one of the best ones so far!!

Aww bless his little cotton socks

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.

We all wondered about it, glad someone had the courage to ask and that Toby is so honest!

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Always the answer to any question about trying to help people 🩷

THIS IS THE BEST ONE 🤣

Nooo, white and gold!!

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 😂

My man. Sometimes I'm so proud of mine I'll name them.

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.

I definitely dream in smell as a blind person.

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

There can be only one.

The dogs are answer to everything

I never would have thought about this

I do have some specific sports socks, notably my skiing ones, which have different shaped padding so have a L and an R sewn into them.

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!!! 🙂

Nothing wrong with that.

Snort-laugh!

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

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).

This one is way to low down, this should be at least top 5 lol

Never happened to me.

Perfect answer, Toby!

That one is definitely the most diabolical one ;P

I have sight and I think smell is a bigger deal to me. Not in a hygiene type of way either.

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.

And then they open their mouth and that's it... /S

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.

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/

Yes to the latter point...

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.

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?

That sucks

Yup. Or, "Let's watch some TV!"

Not blind, but I woke up & freaked out for a few seconds thinking I couldn't see & then realized my face was right against the white wall.

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

I can do that fully sighted. It's a gift.

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!

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.

So no dead space necromorphs for you. Got it.

Wise man. Being deaf is extremely isolating.

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

That's be a cool concept for a movie or short film, exploring the types of vision.

For me it's anything with gore lol

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.

Toby should have responded "Looks? You know I'm blind, right?".../jk

Being blind is almost like having some kind of super power that I can't explain

When it grabs your tongue, its gone too far

So just like every other bloke then.

I'm surprised at how many people don't know it's called a 'white cane.'

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!

Well that's a stupid question!

This is a very odd question. Why would you think someone with a disability couldn't have inappropriate beliefs?

Why would he do that 🫣🥴🤣🤣