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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
"...You will greatly minimize your daily activities like a real blind person..." I don't personally know any blind people, but I'll bet not one wouldn't find that statement offensive.
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I do personally know two blind people. It's a reality that they can't go out and do everything they'd like to do on their own, and they are quite aware of it. They're both happy people who are living fulfilling lives... but they do it with the help of others, and recognizing that there are things in life unavailable to them. They do not do their own grocery shopping, for example. So part of the "blind experience" in that case would be sitting at home waiting for your groceries to be delivered like they do, not wandering the store aisles attempting to learn the canned goods by touch.
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
My plan was to do everything (with supervision, I'm not as retarded as you apparently think I am). Take walks. Sit on the square. Eat out at a restaurant. Masturbate. Ride in cars. Did I say masturbate? Watch (listen to?) a movie. Go to a bar, hear the band. Sit around and BS w/friends. One of the things I was looking forward to was going to a diner/cafe type place, anyplace w/a short order grill. At times, crowded, busy places like that induce panic attacks, and I was wondering, if it would be worse, or better without the visual input.
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Ah. Part of my reaction stems from the locale I pictured you living in. Around here, there is not a square, restaurant, movie theatre, or bar within walking distance. If the things listed above are the only things you imagined doing, then I'd say your daily activities are already fairly minimized, so maybe this would provide you with a valid comparison to your normal life after all.
I'm sorry I came off as rude as I did. I just find it... self-serving, I guess, to emulate someone's very real disability as some kind of thought experiment. It's like that program high school kids sometimes do where they pretend to be homeless for a night so they can understand what it's really like to live on the streets--except they don't really, because in the morning Mommy comes and gets them and they go home and take a shower. I think it would be far more enlightening, and a far better use of your time, to find yourself a real blind person, and learn what their life is like by helping them with the things they struggle with.