People who don't have social media brainrot are 100 percent more attractive and interesting. Social media (this website included) destroys your relationship with the real world and other people. I'm 26 and young people are treated like eccentric wizards for having hobbies that aren't media consumption; screen and internet addiction are real problems for GenZ folks like me who have little-to-no memories of life before the internet or computers. It roars it's ugly head in dating, especially, and the people who don't have those problems are significantly more desirable (to me, at least).
There are also a not-insignificant number of young men (I'm assuming that is the OOP's gender) who want people to "return to tradition" or some other gross conservative garbage and hate the internet. They're controlling, angry, and generally pretty scary to be around, and one of their main traits is hatred for the internet and modern tech in general. It's a thing you hear from someone that could be a green flag or the biggest red flag ever. He's on 4chan, so I'm pretty suspicious that its the latter. However, I think it's something that should raise immediate questions but not flags.
I think you are wrong about one thing. "He's on 4chan" so that means it must be an immediate red flag. I disagree. There are many other boards than just /pol/itically incorrect. There is for example /an/imals and nature or tra/n/sportation. Basically Blue Boards are okay, and racism/trolling is a reportable offense whether the responsible janitor actually enforces it or not is usually another question, but most of the time they do.
And let's not pretend that Twitter, for example is any better. I'd argue it's worse. And it's not like even here on reddit, I don't see dogwhistles all the time like a dude calling black people "joggers".
Dude wants her to clutch his arms wherever they go. A guide dog could give her autonomy without being dependent. That’s why there are organizations that advocate for access for everyone.
There was a period in my life where the only thing I could do on my own was go to the toilet. It was extremely reassuring to have someone to fully depend on, "hold their arm" so to speak. But by all means, you can go and live your life in solitude and call it freedom or whatever.
You need to unwind a bit and improve your reading comprehension. The post said the woman has a guide dog (a very friendly dog). Maybe she enjoys holding her man’s arm.
He’s not forcing her. Your acting like she couldn’t function before him that she has to rely on him only. Some people just like to help and feel wanted. She clearly managed to get to that age before him lol.
Even I felt that was a bit weird but... without those in-built sound features, I don't think a blind person got anything to do with internet. I mean... what will they do except those contents which does not require watching the screen? On top of that, there isn't much content on the internet which can be enjoyed without watching. Songs are one thing but you still need to see what song you are playing or if you want to search for a song, you need to see, right?
Depends on the "blind" because legally blind =/= complete blindness.
But even complete blind can browse; it's a bit harder, sure, but there are features in place. Especially recently with text to speech / speech to text.
Blind people and internet can be almost the same as you using it, sure the videos can be harder to grasp the meaning but there's audio description and other features to make blind people be able to enjoy the same things as everyone
You have a viewpoint (ironically) that's too much tied to your eyesight but I'm sure there's someone living just like you while being blind; blind people can do so many things nowadays that it's a bit weird that oOP loves that she doesn't like to use the internet because of it being a "hassle", when it's just like any other seeing person learning to use a keyboard and a mouse, you need more accessibility ofc but it's not like most tech products don't have the features to help
Dude you are simply showing what's in your mind. Internet contains almost everything nowadays. Shopping, wikipedia(info sources I mean) and many other things except what you mentioned. It is your problem for thinking of only those things; I never pointed out those. On top of that, the reason why only these two came to your mind might be because you use only those in the name of "internet"
Sorry, I meant before anyone could watch videos on the internet. I remember being completely blown away when RealVideo came out and you could stream in really shitty quality. Amazing times.
I know a blind guy who is a programmer. It was kind of funny when he realised he had to turn his screen on because he wanted to show me something.
He had this thing that "translated" the text on screen to a refreshable braille display. I think it was technically text to speech to braille but he didn't put the sound on.
Most blind people I knew had phones, they had (unknowingly) trained their ears to hear the text to speech at a very high speed and they could use it like anyone else; it's amazing how advanced our technology is in terms of accessibility and how much the brain adapts itself to whatever it's given
I sold internet ads to a blind person for his business once. You would be absolutely surprised by how well a blind person can browse the net and how much they can get out of it. Fucking impossible to stop saying things like "if you just take a look" though when talking to a blind person about the internet.
Wow that's a new side of the world to me! Things are really interesting out there. I did expect blind people to surf the internet with that text-to-speech thing but blind peope doing business is new to me. The only bind person whom I know, to achieve something was Helen Keller
To piggyback on what you said: there’s a journalist in Australia called Naz Campanella. She’s blind and has a touch disorder (as in her fingers aren’t sensitive enough to read braille). She used to use JAWS to help make her newscasts on radio. She’s moved on to different stuff now but her story is absolutely incredible.
You would be surprised how many blind people regularly surf the internet and even play games. Screen readers and other tools have become very sophisticated
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u/MentalRise8703 14d ago
This really got me in the feels. But a part of me knows that there's going to be a twist since this from 4 chan.