The Content of The Enemy of Light and Dark
This is not your average podcast. Oh sure, that’s what they all say! Your host, here, has a unique outlook on life. My point of view, well…I have no view, folks- I have no eyes! Lol! That is extraordinarily rare, by the way. There are so many varied conditions of blindness, and the vast majority of blind people have some amount of remaining vision or light perception, the degree of which might not be terribly helpful. You have everything from legally blind, who can often still drive, all the way up to my situation, having no eyes at all. There are people born without eyes and people like me, who had them removed.
Throughout my travels, I have encountered countless people who have great misconceptions about blindness. A lot of people think themselves to be very open-minded about disabilities, but oftentimes, when actually presented with it, it’s a bit harder for them to wrap their heads around. I find people are extremely inquisitive as to my experience. I also find that people are stoic with me, at first, perhaps because they are afraid, and they don’t know what to say. There is an element of people seeming to think that I’m made of fine crystal glass, that I’m going to shatter. I use humor to disarm them, catch them off guard. Through humor, I, instead, shatter the glass first, breaking the barrier between us.
The Content of The Enemy of Light and Dark
This is not your average podcast. Oh sure, that’s what they all say! Your host, here, has a unique outlook on life. My point of view, well…I have no view, folks- I have no eyes! Lol! That is extraordinarily rare, by the way. There are so many varied conditions of blindness, and the vast majority of blind people have some amount of remaining vision or light perception, the degree to which might not be terribly helpful. You have everything from legally blind, who can often still drive, all the way up to my situation, having no eyes at all. There are people born without eyes and people like me, who had them removed.
Throughout my travels, I have encountered countless people who have great misconceptions about blindness. A lot of people think themselves to be very open-minded about disabilities, but oftentimes, when actually presented with it, it’s a bit harder for them to wrap their heads around. I find people are extremely inquisitive as to my experience. I also find that people are stoic with me, at first, perhaps because they are afraid, and they don’t know what to say. There is an element of people seeming to think that I’m made of fine crystal glass, that I’m going to shatter. I use humor to disarm them, catch them off guard. Through humor, I, instead, shatter the glass first, breaking the barrier between us.
That’s exactly what I intend to do with this podcast, to break down that barrier, using loads of humor and covering a wide range of engaging topics. Answers to the questions you’ve always wondered about and bringing new curiosity to things you perhaps hadn’t wondered before, but now can’t stop thinking about!
A sampling of topics we are going to cover:
Blindness, (in case you didn’t already gather that would be in here), what it’s like to be blind, what it’s like for others with disabilities, (or different experiences, if you will) and their successes and challenges, language and communication, worldly misconceptions, the struggle to maintain humor through the hardships of life, fears and phobias, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, rare disorders, blind school, tech for the blind and just cool tech in general, prosthetics, the importance of having actual eyeballs, accessibility and lack thereof, orientation and lack thereof, mental illness, depression, organization, love relations between the sighted and the blind, alcoholism, recovery, history and much, much more!
I will interview blind people, sighted people and many types of specialists and medical professionals. On this journey, as we travel all over the map, let us stand together, (some of us literally but all of us metaphorically) in the face of adversity, all the while developing a new appreciation of things seen and unseen!