Tag: disability
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Bus Hide and Seek
Too many times people get confused… If I’m blind how can I see. This video is me describing my experience while waiting for my bus. https://youtube.com/shorts/nzViNW2QzTg?si=_FfDN-WqdnX2O8tb And this is the text of a recent instagram post I made sharing the video. “The video is of me describing my experience waiting for a bus as a…
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Chris McCausland
A stand up comedian who is totally blind has just won Strictly Come Dancing here in the UK. His success surely can’t be anything but positive? Actually no. Already the “if he can do it why can’t others” rhetoric is starting. Also the he wasn’t the best dancer he only got the sympathy vote rhetoric.…
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Chris McCausland Strictly Superstar
It infuriates me how tweets about Chris a comedian who happens to be blind (having lost his sight to Retinitis Pigmentosa) who is dancing in the BBC programme either gush sentimentally about how great he is as a blind person, how his partner (professional Dianne Buswell) deserves a special award for teaching him, or how…
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Why I use an Apple Watch.
A comment on a Twitter/ X post got me thinking “Have never understood why anyone would pay hundreds of pounds for a smart watch…🤷. For the record a watch only ticks the relevant box if it has hands on it that rotate around the circumference of the dial!” The original post was a poll asking…
Was that a dinosaur? 2.0 