Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜☘️Why is it that authors who portray visually impaired people in their books always portray them as having had surgery or some miracle to give them sight as the way to go? Why not have a totally or partially blind person be the genius detective or whatever? Why must that person have once been blind but can now see? #Blind #BlindFrustration #PetPeeve
Tech Singer@blindquilter If you're interested in detective stuff particularly, see the Max Carrados books
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/529
https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/EBramah/EBramah.html
note that this is by no means new, these were published more than a hundred years ago now. See also the more recent Fielding series
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/SIJ/sir-john-fielding/
As to why, it's the usual thing, there are fairly few people with vision that can't be corrected, people think blindness is worse than death so readers find blindness which isn't curable depressing, blind people are seen as, and generally are, less capable than people who can see, it's harder to portray the world of a blind person, particularly for a sighted author and particularly for a completely blind person... and so on.