In reply to @seedy.

@seedy @jamminjerry Braille is definitely useful in certain situations, like reducing cognative load. Blind children should absolutely be taught braille. But statements like "blind people who can't read braille are illiterate" are (1) factually incorrect, and (2) the kind of crap holding blind people back. Finally (3) spelling is neither equivalent to or an indicator of literacy, so even if it were factually true that +

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