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Blind Humour
As many of my readers know I usually write stories about surviving and recovering from trauma, or about the adversities that I face as a blind person.
This we’ll be a little different though. There is a humorous side to being visually impaired as well.
I have developed a keen sense of humor towards some of the silly little accidents that I have as a blind person. My good friend Scott used to tell me that he wished he could follow me around with a video camera, recording everything I did. He believed that we would have won many, many times in the America’s funniest video contests.I have walked into literally hundreds of signs and posts. Most of the time I survived these bangs without any serious injuries. Many people over the years have had a good laugh. Or chuckle over the silly way that I bounce off these things. Over the years I have developed lightning fast. Reflexes and just as I’m about to hit something. So I slow down quickly.
I wear a baseball cap so that the peak hits what I might Bang my face into instead of my nose.
I have no real depth perception. I once stepped over a railing at a girlfriend’s house. Thinking that there was a sidewalk on the other side, but no. There was an eight foot drop to the sidewalk on the other side. It must have looked extremely funny. Watching me realize that I was dropping a lot further than I originally thought…
