Anonymous #1 12w

Yes, yes, and yes. Though pornhub is meh. They have described audio for some videos, but it’s not good and hearing someone describe actions takes you out of it. Gonewildaudio, audio books, and imagination, along with my fiancee are plenty enough

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Anonymous #1 12w

R/gonewildaudio I mean

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Anonymous #2 12w

Nah you’re good lol, I literally have a typed note on my phone that I copy and paste. On every iPhone there is an accessibility setting called voiceover. It essentially reads everything on the screen and uses touch and swipe gestures to navigate any app, website, or keyboard. Don’t believe me? Try asking Siri to turn on voiceover and then triple tap the screen with 3 fingers, have fun

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Anonymous #1 12w

Blue. Though I should note that I could see up until I was 13, so I do have a reference for colors. I actually developed synesthesia after losing my sight. And now associate colors, with people, words, and sounds. My fiancee is royal blue, light blue, and white. That’s why blue is my favorite now

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Anonymous OP 12w

Why 3 colors?

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Anonymous #1 12w

You know what I wish I knew. I don’t choose the color or colors, the colors themselves never change, and sometimes weird things make a difference. Kaitlyn with a K is light green to me, while Caitlyn with a C, or like with Caitlin Clark is a sunset yellow. It’s always interested me what different patterns I notice

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Anonymous OP 12w

Do letters have individual colors?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Yes they do, but when put together with other letters, sometimes it changes

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Anonymous #1 12w

It’s not like each letter gives me a different color and words are all rainbows. A word has its own 1 to 3 colors, just some letters can be consistent. Almost anything that starts with Z is a shade of purple. Except zebra, which is black and white for obvious reasons

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Anonymous OP 12w

Haha of course zebras are the exception. And what about sentences?

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Anonymous OP 12w

Same thing, or color slideshow?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Sentences are interesting, I think there are certain words that stand out and dominate the color throughout the sentence as I hear it read back to me. Nothing words like a the is in of if as and so forth don’t have colors. But the word “words” is navy blue, and “sentence” is pale yellow. So more on the slideshow side of things when certain words draw color attention

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Anonymous OP 12w

What color is the word buffalo?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Blue and red, but I think that’s the buffalo bills fault

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Anonymous OP 12w

Ok ok. How are sound colors?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Elaborate. How are they? Like are they feeling relatively happy or?

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Anonymous OP 12w

Like, voices, they have different colors?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Ah okay. As in how does it work with sounds rather than just words. Yes, voices have colors. I could know two people named Hannah and the color could be different when I hear them talk based on their voice. Sound is harder to explain since I can’t translate them, not like I can when I tell you about words that have color anyway.

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Anonymous OP 12w

No worries. Let’s say for the two Hannah’s, are their colors similar or different?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Colors are similar yes. One was distinctly black and white, while the other was just gray and a little grayer

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Anonymous OP 12w

Oh that’s cool

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Anonymous OP 12w

Music must be crazy for you

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Anonymous #1 12w

Also, what color is the sound of your fiancée?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Yes it is, especially when I’m high and really focusing on all the sounds/instrumentals

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Anonymous OP 12w

That’s too cool. Does loud music give you color explosions?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Hmm, I don’t think it’s like an explosion or more of the color, just the color gets brighter and more defined

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Anonymous OP 12w

Ah so how does the color show up to you?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Just noticed I missed the sound of my fiancee question. It’s the same as the color for her name. So that royal blue, light blue, and white. Kinda Elsa Cinderella vibes

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Anonymous #1 12w

It’s really REALLY hard to explain that in a way that makes sense. It’s kind of like a ring of color around my vision, but I have to actively think about it to bring it up and keep it there. Other wise I kinda just feel what the color for a word is. I don’t always actually “see” it. Just kinda know what it is

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Anonymous OP 12w

So the color doesn’t appear in the center, but more along the outside?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Yes, sometimes there’s like a faint color throughout the center, but it almost looks as if it’s behind something. But in general, it just goes round the outside, round the outside, round the outside

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Anonymous OP 12w

Ah like two trailer park girls

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Anonymous #1 12w

Guess who’s back, back again

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Anonymous #1 12w

Not at all, more than used to it. I was born with glaucoma and have had over 35 eye surgeries to combat a progressive loss of vision. But I had two separate post operation interocular infections that took my site completely from each eye seven years apart.

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Anonymous OP 12w

35? That’s insane. How old were you when the surgeries started?

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Anonymous #1 12w

Yeah just a couple surgeries lol. My first surgery was at 9 months old. Last one was in 2021 though, 4 years is the longest stretch of time I’ve gone without a surgery 🙌

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Anonymous #4 12w

I met her in high school through a mutual friend. Now it’s been 6 years. I think she’s very attractive. In the shallow way, I can feel that she has a nice body, but when it comes to beginning to date. Attraction is all personality based, which matters much more to me. What people say, the way they say it, the words they use, their humor, ability to listen, their supportiveness, all are much more attractive to me than a symmetrical face or whatever you sighted people care about

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Anonymous #5 11w

Aye more action on the education front! In my other comments, I talk about my synesthesia, which would be an example of that part of my brain rewiring I imagine. In terms of spaces, I am constantly visualizing a basic idea of everything that I know is around me. But I can only know so much, so I may be in my living room visualizing the couch and coffee table, but beyond that it’s just mist. Until I hear a voice or my dogs collar, and they join the visualization

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Anonymous #5 11w

Oh, also totally skipped over the feeling a face question. I feel like media really plays that up. Yes, I’ve felt my fiancé‘s face, and I can get a decent visualization of it, but it’s not concrete and doesn’t really stay in my mind. Not to mention that it doesn’t matter, I, and most blind people agree, that it doesn’t do anything for us.

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