I'm blind, but I won't date blind people ft.
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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Produced and presented by Lucy Edwards and Ollie Edwards-Cave.
Music composed by Alice Edwards and produced by Ollie Edwards-Cave.
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Lucy and Ollie are such good podcast hosts. Lucy just gracefully transitions from one part of the podcast to the next with such confidence!
I find your voices so lovely. Thank you for sharing yourselves with the world, I think you are amazing and are accomplishing great things for the community(s) you represent.
Lucy and both of you are doing Marvellous work on all platforms that you cover.
I’m Registered Blind and can relate to you and your story, Lucy, a lot With empathy. I was born with a hereditary eye condition called ‘Congenital Aniridia (partial or complete absence of the Iris) and Secondary Glaucoma. I was Partially sighted and lost my sight before I should have with an accident that happened at the age of 17, and with my eye condition too it never helped. It’s a long story but I ended up in hospital for a week. That moment on then, I had to relearn all basics like yourself and because of this I had a lot of problems then on, and my life changed a lot. However, I have most brighter days now and your my inspiration of both of you. Thanks, so proud of your voice of awareness for our community and soon to be all,
I’ve also had the experience of being engaged to a Ex Fiancé who was blind and a not long a go split up from my current relationship with a sighted man from Ireland who had Eplipsa.
I have had a lot o CD loss in my life in a lot of ways. My close Grandad at 3yrs, my dad to avoidable tragedy that lead to his passing. Of youngs that he was protected us against to the end that mocked our disability. Then more recent also my dear beautiful mum, My mum (who passed away, at 81 yrs, that was a shock 2 yrs ago unexpectly this May the 8th), was only one of six who was born with the eye condition, then it was passed on to my big Sis and I, then my 3 nieces, nephew and great nephew. It was classed as rare when we were young and now mostly too and they still don’t have enough research for it now as much as other eye conditions. RIP 🙏
I’m glad for your encouragement for us all to find confidence to voice our existence and value in this world too. I will be buying and accessing your audiobook version and sharing your exceptional work and Platform links. I hope to meet you both sometime. You lifted my hopes and spirit for the future, that I never thought would happen. 👍🏻😁❤️
Sqwee I always look forward to this brings me so much comfort because it’s nice to hear other disabled people especially for me blind people talk about relationships and such I meet my partners at work when I was working and I too have the I was loosing vision in chunks and for the longest time the specialists said it was peters and cone rod dystrophy then we did genetic testing and it is peters glaucoma and atypical rp I just feel so happy when you guys post
This is another great episode it's honestly so relatable, I was born with my vision impairment because of the umbilical cord from birth it also gave me cerebral palsy but I only have it in the right side of my body and my vision impairment is quite severe to the point where I've never been able to see facial expressions since I was little unless I'm about 1 foot away from the person like if I'm standing right in front of them I can get a real good look at what they look like but most the time they kinda look like a blob luckily I have enough site where I can create these mental images in my head of what people are wearing and what they look like I can't see all the details but I can see enough to know this person wearing this coloured shirt or things like that and have tripped my brain into being I would've followed people from About 5 feet away being able to walk behind someone and constantly follow them but it becomes a bit more challenging when there are other people who address the same or look the same sometimes I can get a little bit lost or a little bit confused and there are other moments where doing daily tasks can become a bit challenging as well like I write novels but I struggle so much to read because Since my disability is brain related my brain doesn't process things the same way that my eyes do and so I don't see the words the way other people do a lot of the time they're always black gaps in my vision so I can only read certain words at the time or half a word and it can be really hard especially when words don't sound the same that they're spelt and I often say I have a large vocabulary auditory Like the words I know are big and I have a great expensive vocabulary but when it comes to the written vocabulary not so much like the words I know are very expensive but the words I can actually spell a very few especially the bigger the word is and the waiter it spelt the words they're not spelt the same way that they're spoken I often struggle with and I think when it comes to dating I myself have tried so many different dating apps and liked it because I could blow up the person's picture and really zoom in on what they looked like or it would give me a description of what the person was into or how old they were or things like that that I can't see on the daily basis and unfortunately due to the fact that I am not a member of anything or I don't see a lot of young people are interact with a lot of young people except for like going to coffee shops or other things like that I'm still struggling when it comes to learning where to go to meet people for different groups and things since I'm not much of an extra vet but I think dating in person is better dating online has its benefits as well especially depending on the amount of site you have because as someone with a bit more site than you Lucy, I am able to blow up the person picture and you know read their description and learn some things about them but obviously the problem with dating apps is that you never know if the person is genuine so it's a bit of a tossup because in person you can't exactly ask the person how old they are or things like that about a complete stranger when you go up to them but online you get all that information however I feel like our connections as blind visually impaired people are always so much stronger whether we're meeting them online or in person you know developing feelings quicker or relying on the person sooner or different things like that because of our disability so it's so much more important for us to meet someone who actually is genuine and actually does care about us or that we can actually trust or rely on so I think it's so great that you were able to find someone so early that has been with you this whole time and Ollie seems like an amazing person to do all of this with you and I think you got very lucky because it is so hard to find someone who is actually accepting of your disability especially when it comes to online dating there are so many people out there who aren't as understanding when it comes to disability so meeting people in person especially when it comes to a friend of a friend or different groups where you know the person or you know different people and they're able to introduce you and help you when it comes to meeting people it's so important and it can be so difficult.
Also just wanted to put a little note here at the end I have a adorable black-and-white kitten who is actually named Ollie, I just like the name it had nothing to do with your partner, but whenever I hear the name now it's always so funny to me.
Thanks. Loving your content ❤
Proverbs 3:24-26 KJV
[24] When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. [25] Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. [26] For the LORD shall be thy confidence, And shall keep thy foot from being taken.
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I love this. As a registered blind person: i find dating really hard. Online dating in particular. I'm 27 next month lol. Meeting people in person, what you see is who you get so to speak even though we can't necesssarily see them visually (if that makes sense lol).
I'm a trans male who is bisexual and open to poly relationships.
In terms of the intimate stuff , it's harder for people like us because we as people need more emotional connection and trust before being comfortable in doing the deed.
I hate using my cane and don't use it as much as i should. As a deaf/blind person , i have a red and white cane. I find most people are arrogant about canes etc or just don't care.
I have applied for a guide dog twice at different parts of life but got denied because of 'having too many medical conditions" that are physical, visible and invisible.
I also have some internal ableism but i think it's something we all have to go through.
Good video. Love to you both xx
I miss seeing my eyes!
That may sound bad! It was my favorite body part when I was sighted! I thought they were so attractive. Now I can see the place where they should be but not the eyes! It’s really sad!
What’s Maisie Williams doing on your podcast? 😊
How is doing the d as a line person that is married
Lucy is married.
Huh?? What are you trying to ask? Are you trying to ask how a blind person has sex???
@@Positivekitten No idea but I just guessed.
Lucy and both of you are doing Marvellous work on all platforms that you cover.
I’m Registered Blind and can relate to you and your story, Lucy, a lot With empathy. I was born with a hereditary eye condition called ‘Congenital Aniridia (partial or complete absence of the Iris) and Secondary Glaucoma. I was Partially sighted and lost my sight before I should have with an accident that happened at the age of 17, and with my eye condition too it never helped. It’s a long story but I ended up in hospital for a week. That moment on then, I had to relearn all basics like yourself and because of this I had a lot of problems then on, and my life changed a lot. However, I have most brighter days now and your my inspiration of both of you. Thanks, so proud of your voice of awareness for our community and soon to be all,
I’ve also had the experience of being engaged to a Ex Fiancé who was blind and a not long a go split up from my current relationship with a sighted man from Ireland who had Eplipsa.
I have had a lot o CD loss in my life in a lot of ways. My close Grandad at 3yrs, my dad to avoidable tragedy that lead to his passing. Of youngs that he was protected us against to the end that mocked our disability. Then more recent also my dear beautiful mum, My mum (who passed away, at 81 yrs, that was a shock 2 yrs ago unexpectly this May the 8th), was only one of six who was born with the eye condition, then it was passed on to my big Sis and I, then my 3 nieces, nephew and great nephew. It was classed as rare when we were young and now mostly too and they still don’t have enough research for it now as much as other eye conditions. RIP 🙏
I’m glad for your encouragement for us all to find confidence to voice our existence and value in this world too. I will be buying and accessing your audiobook version and sharing your exceptional work and Platform links. I hope to meet you both sometime. You lifted my hopes and spirit for the future, that I never thought would happen. 👍🏻😁❤️