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
Karen Conlin@blindquilter Greg Doucette's "The Apocalypse Seven" features a blind woman, with guide dog and cane. At the start, anyway. #NoSpoilers
@GramrgednAngel But is she an awesome detective solving complicated crimes without sight?
@blindquilter sorry, no, but having read the book recently i was keyed in to "blind character who is blind with no magical/technological assistance." Only her intelligence and natural abilities. As part of an ensemble, she contributes to keeping them alive.
That in itself felt worthy to me (legally blind in 50 states, as my childhood ophthalmologist told my parents).
I'll keep searching for blind Holmes.
@GramrgednAngel Thanks. ☺️ I am currently listening to a book with a woman who was born blind but had a miraculous surgery to give her sight and she now uses her sight along with her other senses to discover things the FBI does not see. 🙄 Her best friend from childhood who is blind is in the book and she is very independent and well-established. My pet peeve is that the only way the main female character can be so accomplished is that she now has eyesight.
@blindquilter UGH. So wrong.