A corporate team building exercise where the participants experience blindness. Not by putting on blindfolds. By being actually blinded. Satire is fun. https://deepsy.net/p/realistic-blindness-simulation-exercises-d7e?utm_source=publication-search #Satire #Humor #Comedy #Disability #Blindness #Blind #DeepSy

Ride the brainevator all the way to the deepest subbasement and watch how my mind, unbeknownst to me, packs itself full of maps and rules and calculations just so I can safely get where I need to go. Plus, the time I got directional instructions from a sighted stranger that were so chef’s-kiss perfect they haunt me every time I receive the usual pointless dribble.
https://deepsy.net/p/mental-maps-and-my-instinctive-subconscious-de4?utm_source=publication-search #DeepSy #Humor #Blind #Blindness #Disability #comedy

A stoned CVS employee tries to help me find a birthday card for a girl I was trying to date, and other adventures in shopping while blind
https://deepsy.net/p/toothpicks-poison-spinach-and-a-lewd #Blind #Disability #Humor #Humour #Comedy #DeepSy

A highly entertaining and possibly high CVS employee helping me find a birthday card for a girl I was trying to go out with. A clip from my podcast. #DeepSy #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Dating

An anti-ableist Christmas story, in Dr. Seuss meter and rhyme. You can read it here or listen to me read it. I have a one-month paywall, hence the Christmas story in mid January https://deepsy.net/p/how-the-grinch-failed-to-steal-christmas-283 #Humor #Disability #Blind #Blindness #DeepSy

A crash course in having normal conversations with blind people by really committing yourself to the idea that we are regular humans. https://open.substack.com/pub/syhoekstra/p/speaking-to-blind-people-like-were-74e?r=acb5w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Humor #DeepSy

A post about the many hilarious, absurd, and heartwarming ways I’ve had kids interact with my blindness, and about parenting a sighted toddler. This podcast version of the post also features my toddler reading her own lines. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-toddler-understands-blindness-feat-my-toddler/id1831543927?i=1000739506365 #Blind #Blindness #Humor #DeepSy

A satirical jab at the sighted people who create technology for blind people without ever talking to us about what we need, in parity radio news form. Hear the rest at https://deepsy.net/p/bonus-episode-glass-eye-witness-news #Blind #Blindness #Disability #AssistiveTech #Parody #Satire #DeepSy

A post that begins with me yelling and shoving a kid against a vending machine as part of a teacher’s actual classroom assignment in high school. But it’s really about the emotions behind transitioning to using a white cane while losing vision. Read it, or listen to me read it, here: https://deepsy.net/p/my-slow-stubborn-reluctant-transition #Blind #Blindness #Disability #Humor #WhiteCane #DeepSy