Amanda Unvarnished

In reply to @ThatMermaid_J.

@ThatMermaid_J Nothing wrong with early bedtime.

In reply to @jamminjerry.

@jamminjerry @seedy I can check with John about rates converted to words per minute, but I'll need to do it tomorrow. He's winding down for the day so I don't want to interrupt him with it right at the moment.

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@seedy @jamminjerry The original post that sparked this thread.

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@seedy @jamminjerry Sorry I'm just so pissed at stuff like this. It's gatekeeping bullshit that creates yet another barrier for blind people, to say nothing of neurodivergent people who also happen to be blind, along with blind people who lost their sight later in life, and grrrrrrrrr!

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@seedy @jamminjerry Also, there's a huge grammatical mistake in that post, but I will refrain from being a jerk and pointing it out.

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@seedy @jamminjerry OK let me add: This is using Eloquence.

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@jamminjerry @seedy I know people who consume screen reader speech output at 1,000 words per minute, process that info and interact with it every day. They are definitely not illiterate.

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@jamminjerry @seedy Fuck it, writing the article. /me cracks nuckles, opens text editor.

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@jamminjerry @seedy And look, I get it. If you were taught braille as a child, and that's how you initially learned to read, it's tempting to conclude that blind people who can't read braille must be illiterate. But that's just not how literacy works.

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@jamminjerry @seedy Stupid isn't the right word for this. It's just wrong track wrong train wrong. It's an example of recursive wrongness.

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@jamminjerry @seedy Christ now I want to write an article for WBH about this.

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@seedy @jamminjerry blind people who can't read braille can't spell, it wouldn't matter because the ability to spell correctly isn't literacy.

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@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 +

In reply to @ThatMermaid_J.

@ThatMermaid_J @jackf723 It's like killall, but for my brain.