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Anon dates blind girl (sh.itjust.works)
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Dating a blind girl

All of her friends are blind

Love that she holds my arm when we're out

Love that she eventually got used to my apartment and can now navigate around by herself

Love that her guide dog is super friendly and is always on the job to help her.

Love that her family sees me as a great person because her being blind doesn't bother me

Love that she doesn't use the internet because it's too much hassle

Love that she requests I read new books for her in my voice and record them so she has her own boyfriend audiobook library.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Washington State has a digital braille library if anyone out there knows someone like Anon's GF.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/washington-talking-book-braille-library

It's available to anyone

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Washington State has a digital braille library

And since it’s a blue state, this library is unlikely to be viciously defunded or be legally/legislatively attacked by regressives.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

waiting for the awful twist before i read the community name

[–] ralen@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"doesn't use the internet" - thats a lie, blind people can use the internet with all these tts programs, a lot of which are simple to configure and use

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says "doesn't use the internet", not "can't use the internet". Whilst the internet has become more accessible over time through the use of screen readers etc, accessibility is unfortunately not considered a priority for many apps and websites. It's trickier to navigate the web as a blind person because websites are primarily designed to be looked at, not heard. It's not unreasonable that she might just not want to use it, even though she could learn to.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’d the parent comment say?

Did it break rules?

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can check the modlog. The reason given is "automod," which seems quite bizarre to me, especially given that there are no objectionable keywords in the comment, and that it was removed 2 hours after it was made.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

"Blind" is ableist language, the preferred term is unsighted

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this comment removed? I thought Lemmy was supposed to be better about this sort of thing

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The modlog says it was the sh.itjust.works automod. The comment content didn't contain any keywords that could have tripped it, so I'm not sure why it would have been set off. Maybe the automod is set to permanently ban recently created accounts that have a significant number of downvotes.

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely doesn't deserve a permanent ban imo, I don't think they were trying to cause offence.

@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Just restored the comment and unbanned the user.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This maxes out the wholesome meter god damn.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at how good of a person i pretend to be.

Jasss so wholesome

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How come they're pretending, in your opinion?

[–] zer0hour@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not that I necessarily agree, but probably because they made a post to "show off" instead of just enjoying it themselves. like, why share unless you want to get acknowledgement?

that's at least where I think they may be coming from

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes when you're happy you just want to share why you're happy