A blog about my life as a Visually Impaired Person.
On Tuesday 3 December, it was the International Day for Persons with Disabilities, and suitably perhaps, the UK news recently has been flooded with stories relating to disability, some positive and some startlingly negative. With the end of the decade coming up, it got me thinking, where exactly are we with attitudes towards disability in […]
Read More 4 Things to Take Away from a Decade of Disability InequalityMy first ever blog! An introduction to me and how I do life and stuff.
Read More 3 Things I Couldn’t Live Without As A Blind PersonLast year, I experienced the Edinburgh Fringe festival for the first time. I absolutely fell in love with it: the buzzing atmosphere, the endless entertainment, even the bagpipes (no, actually, maybe chill with the bagpipes). Did the shows vary in quality? Yes, of course. At one point, I was forced to endure twenty minutes of […]
Read More My Edinburgh Fringe ExperienceBelow is the unedited version of the story I told for BBC Ouch: Storytelling Live at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. You can find the BBC News article here! (Picture: BBC News) I think being lost is pretty integral to being a blind person. I’m 23 now and I’ve been lost everywhere – in clubs, […]
Read More The Time I Got Lost in My Boss’s Mansion…1. You are unbelievably amazing and inspirational Now don’t get me wrong, I love a compliment and an ego boost as much as the next man, and I love when people tell me that I’ve made a difference to the way that they think about or perceive things. What I’m not so fond of is […]
Read More The 5 Reactions People Give When They Realise I’m BlindA bit of a different post today. I was nominated a couple weeks ago by Sophie at The Life of Sophie to participate in the Blogger Recognition Award. She has a fantastic blog dedicated to changing traditional perceptions of disability, so go check that out when you’re finished here! So today, instead of preaching […]
Read More Blogger Recognition Award: the Visually Impaired/Blind EditionAs a 22-year old man with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative and incurable eye condition that has left me with around 5% vision, I will be the first to tell you that being blind or severely sight impaired is hard. Not only are you faced with physical barriers on a daily basis such as getting around, […]
Read More 5 perks you might not see about being blind…You will have undoubtedly heard the news a couple of weeks ago that the taxi service Uber is set to lose its license for operating around London. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a Change.org petition to reinstate the company’s license, however it is currently unclear whether or not Uber’s appeal will be […]
Read More Londoners might want Uber to stay, but disabled people NEED Uber to stay…At this very moment, if you listen hard enough, up and down the UK you will hear the sound of a thousand teenagers desperately trying to fit in, pretend they find their new flatmates funny, and erase all trace of their past selves.That’s right, September is upon us, and with it brings Freshers Week for […]
Read More 3 Tips For Surviving Freshers Week As A Blind StudentThe Rio 2016 Paralympics are almost upon us, and following Team GB’s most successful Olympics since 1908, here’s hoping that the British Paralympians can live up to the high expectations set just four years ago in London. While most people I have spoken to about it have expressed great interest and excitement for this year’s […]
Read More 3 Reasons Why You Should Care About the 2016 ParalympicsSince September’s now upon us, I thought I’d look back at the highlights of one of my best summers yet. First holiday with my girlfriend. So it started with an amazing trip to Lanzarote with my girlfriend, which we booked for our one year anniversary. Four days by the pool, the beach and a bar […]
Read More 3 First Times I Had This Summer
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