/lit/ - Literature

Dude audiobooks lmao

>>14730127
Based

>>14730127
Legitimately horrifying anon, probably my biggest fear. I wish there was something I could say that will comfort you, but I cannot. Cherish every moment of sight, anon.

>>14730127
just wear teh glasses dude

>>14730127
2-3 years is more than enough time to learn braille. the other anon is right, blindness can be pretty based as long as you rock it like borges. with a cane and everything.

Preferable to being deaf, imo

Become a music guy, being able to hear this is better than having sight

https://youtu.be/EKm_54TwS_w

>>14730127
how? do you have the beetus?

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>>14730206
Im freaking the fuck out. It's a more aggressive type of retinitis pigmentosa. How is blindness based? Who wants to date a blind guy? How will I ever feel safe out in society? Everyone will know I'm blind and BANG punch out of nowhere nothing I can do to defend myself. Those guys lived in a different time. It's different now. People prey on the weak.

Surgery is an option but not until later.

I'm 100% sure that you can learn braille.

>>14730247

I don't know what to say OP, but I feel bad for you. This life is full of surprises, we have no choice but to bear the cross we're given

https://youtu.be/RiG97xFPJvo

You will HAVE to learn braille out of neccesity, even if your a retarded monkey ape your body will learn out of a need not because you can or cannot/want to.

Noone cares fagit

Fuck, sorry man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqtPeMUMX4g

>>14730247
You reap what you sow, by Allah you people are dogs!

>>14730127
>audio books
>music
>retard bucks
Besides voice control tech is getting more and more popular. Obviously losing your sight sucks but you're living in the best of time to do so.

>>14730247
>Who wants to date a blind guy?
See, now you have more excuses to be a virgin too! It's not your personality, it's blindness!
>How will I ever feel safe out in society?
In what sort of third world shithole do you live? Blind people are usually not treated too badly in civilized countries.
>It's different now. People prey on the weak.
They always did but back in the day you'd get fucked much harder while now you have a decent chance that nothing bad will happen to you and motherfuckers will even try to help you. Plus again, all the tech.

Also trained blind people don't seem too have too many problems to navigate the world. I saw a fucking blind chick going down the stars like it's nothing, shit was impressive.

>>14730247
Sick. I have RP too. 30 and can still read. Kant drive tho. Learn to use a cane and start reading as much as you can. Also check out pic related

>>14730247
Hey man, there are a lot of good options for visually impaired computer users these days. The free software community provides a lot of tools like the orca screen reader, and web design is going though a huge shift to work well with these tools. You should consider looking into this stuff and getting used to it now so that you'll be ready to go once it happens. I've not known many blind people, but I did point a family with a blind daughter at these tools and she took to it like a fish to water. I also recall reading a hacker news thread about blind developers, and there were (at least allegedly, but I'm pretty sure they were legitimate) mostly blind/totally blind software devs talking about how they used computers. Give me a few minutes to find it. It will take you longer to do computer tasks now but you're not locked out, and I'd imagine it will make you more meticulous and thoughtful. You not being blind yet is actually a huge advantage, and my best advice is to man up and start preparing right now.

>>14730325
>pic related
Is it already happening bros?

>>14730127
kill yourself when you still can

>>14730334
Kek.

how far are we from robotic eyes?

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>>14730332
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18522497
I hope this is useful. Best of luck.

>>14730247
i mean, why not just take a vacation to a nice beach somewhere, and kill yourself at the end?

>>14730247
>Surgery is an option but not until later.
What does this mean?

>>14730384
This but take out a huge loan for "experimental treatment" then run off with the cash to some nice poor country where you can buy an old house and hire a prostitute to take care of you into your old age.

>>14730127
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't braille becoming a little bit of a lost art, given the proliferation of dictating/audio devices? You might not even actually need to learn it, though you probably should.

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>>14730247
The greatest martial artist who ever lived was blind.

Blindness is less isolating than deafness. If you’re blind you can still talk to people and hear their voice. If you are deaf you’re just that guy in the corner who can’t participate in the conversation, most people do not know sign language. Also blinds are traditionally seen as oracles and mystics, maybe there is some truth to that and you will get some insights into the spirit world.

>>14730440
If you're deaf, you can just use the billions of chatting apps.

I'd hate missing on music but if the choice was between blind or deaf, I'd pick the latter 10 out of 10 times.

I'm sorry OP. You have my prayers.

>>14730370
I'm not sure, but I feel like we're very far

Not sure if this helps at all, but I watched Into Great Silence and there was a blind monk that seemed pretty comfy. Life is what you make of it. If you can change it, obviously do so, but if you can't change it there's no sense in fighting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkIjQEn7lEE

>>14730440
>blinds are traditionally seen as oracles and mystics
at least there is that. hope that god gives you this gift, that you gain a spiritual eye to replace your earthly ones. not that I'd wish blindness upon anyone, but, if it is inevitable, that you may make good use of it, if you can. sorry to hear OP, best of luck.

>>14730127
reading is the least of your problems. you CAN learn braille and you can still hear, your priority should be to accumulate as much visual data as possible.

you'll still be able to imagine visual images in your head right?

>>14730334
Lol. Forgot to attach image

>>14730664
What a fucking stupid cope niggerfaggot perspective. He loses his eyesight and its a gift. Go fuck yourself with a crucifix.

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>>14730664
you christcucks are so fucking disgusting

OP I'm really sorry to hear about your shitty situation. I recently lost total vision in one of my eyes due to retinal detachment but I still can't comprehend what losing your vision completely is like.
I'd recommend starting to get familiar with audio based software to help with navigating the computer. It sounds dumb but I'd also research into human echolocation in case you go completely blind.

>>14731110
>I recently lost total vision in one of my eyes due to retinal detachment

I recently had a retinal detachment but went to the ER right away and got it fixed. What happened in your case? Did you ignore the symptoms until it was too late?

>>14730127
Have a buddy experiencing this right now, anon. I'm so sorry, anon.

>>14731544
What are the symptoms for that?

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>>14730334
Holy moly this was great

>>14731007
you should be thankful that Allah gave you life, motherfucker. Cant you get it into your head that life is priceless, nihilist?

Dude jus t>>14730127
become Homer

>>14730127
I'm sorry OP. I've worked with blind children and while I can say that there is a lot support out there, I won't lie to you and say it will be OK from now on. Life will be very hard, especially at the beginning. You will adjust eventually but only through great struggle.
I myself have been terrified of losing my sight for the longest time. Was there any signs beforehand? Do you have a history of blindness in the family?

>>14730247
date a blind girl obviously

>>14730127
Memorise the Iliad and the Odyssey in ancient Greek, that's all you really can do.

>>14730438
Lee sin?

>>14731653
Floaters, flashes of light

>>14730247
Sorry bro that’s terrible. Good luck, you will find a way to be happy in this.

>>14730247
Think of it this way
Your other senses will get stronger
You may be able to hear the words on the pages

>>14730127
You need to look at this in a different point of view. Now you will be forced to live an alternative life style. Being blind does not mean you will have a bad life. If you overcome your blindness by living a full life, you will probably be happier than most people. You will be able to find love as well.
Personally, if I were you I would dedicate a lot of your time to a passion of your choosing. Do you like music, poetry, literature?
Also, being in your late 20’s does not mean you are dumb and old. You should be at the peak of your mental health. And IF you aren’t then you need to focus on that as well. Good luck.

if it's any shred of consolation, there are already many possible senses that we as humans are deprived of experiencing (like sonar, echolocation, etc). Life is always about painting a whole with the limited senses you have.

And as far as /lit/, that's something you'll still have since language works mostly by sound. Reading is the wrong thing to focus on missing.

>>14730297
Ok boomer.

>>14730247
Im really sorry to hear this man, its shit. But just imagine all the things your imagination will be conjuring up while you live in darkness, visions people with sight wouldnt even be able to fathom. If you can eventually get surgery you might aswell wait it out.

>>14730325
I'm laffin

>>14730247
my grandpa has that

>>14730127
Sorry to hear that anon. Can't imagine what something like that feels like.

But anyway, I'm sure you can learn braile. And there are audiobooks and all sorts of accessibility things nowadays.
I work with programming and I've had a blind coworker who is pretty good. He codes while using a screenreader and when looking at him doing it it looks crazy for me and seems like the sort of thing that I would never be able to do, but according to him he thought that at first as well.
We are actually pretty good at adapting and learning new things, specially when forced to.

> Who wants to date a blind guy?
Btw the guy was married.

Idk anon, not trying to pretend that it's good or anything like that. You are gonna have to pretty much relearn how to live and I feel for you. However, it is less catastrophic than you are thinking right now, for sure.

Wish you all the best.

>>14730247
I fucking hope that everything with you will be okay. I FUCKING HATE heatlth problems I FUCKING HATE THEM. its fukcing stupid.

No excuses anon

>>14730127
sell everything and travel the world while you still can.
don't waste time in cities, only go to rural places and experience what nature has to offer.
also have children before you go totally blind so you can at least see them while you're young.
you'll have lived a better life than most people who die with their sight.

Just become an old sage that knows hundreds of books by heart

>>14734259
Thanks for posting it.

>>14734275
damn bruh i wish i go blind one day so i can have children before going blind

Have you read Paradise Lost? My favorite passage is an introduction to one of the cantos, just a page or two, where Milton talks about all the beauty he misses from being able to see, but then it turns into a prayer for God to open him to other types of sight. Absolutely beautiful.

>>14730334
goddamnit

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I'm not blind so obviously this is hard for me to judge, but honestly braille seems kind of unimportant in an age of text to speech.

>>14731110

So my mom had complete retinal and macular detachment and is fine now. She had a surgery to fix the eye and a cataract surgery and her vision progressively returned. She can still drive and read and everything. It’s not even a problem anymore.

She’s a huge bitch though.

>>14730127

A little bit of research and I found out that Vitamin A supplementation and a diet high in omega 3 fatty acids (which you can also supplement) slowed vision loss.

This study found goji berries slowed vision loss.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30877066/

Many studies seem to be talking about Lutein which is a supplement you can buy.

Google scholar is a good place to look for studies. I say you have nothing to lose by dosing yourself with Omega 3 fatty acids, Lutein, and Vitamin palmitate. Delaying the vision loss for something like improved gene editing technologies or bionic technology could be really important.

Start trying to look up clinical trials and experimental treatments especially ones in non-western countries with limited medical regulation.

The demiurge wins again

>>14733984
Trapped in the dungeons of his mind, if he loses control of his thoughts or his mind slips he may very well be living the greatest horror that a man can live. There will be no external stimuli to distract from this. OP I implore you to get right with God before your blindness sets in, also make sure your mental health is airtight.

>>14730247
op is right. i punch every blind man i see. blind fucks dont see it comin hahahaha

read ligotti and cioran then off yourself anon, go out on your own terms

>>14733697
Y-you're just fucking with me, right?

>>14737129
based

>>14730247
“BVA was also concurrently developing the High-Acuity device, which incorporated a number of new technologies to bring together a microchip and an implant with 1024 electrodes. The device aimed to provide functional central vision to assist with tasks such as face recognition and reading large print. This high-acuity implant would be inserted epiretinally. Patient tests were planned for this device in 2014 once preclinical testing had been completed, it is unknown whether these trials ever took place.

Patients with retinitis pigmentosa were to be the first to participate in the studies, followed by age-related macular degeneration. Each prototype consisted of a camera, attached to a pair of glasses which sent the signal to the implanted microchip, where it was converted into electrical impulses to stimulate the remaining healthy neurons in the retina. This information was then passed on to the optic nerve and the vision processing centres of the brain.

On January 2, 2019, BVT released positive results from a set of trials on four Australians using a new version of the device. Older versions of the device were only designed to be used temporarily, but the new design allowed the technology to be used constantly, and for the first time outside the lab, even to be taken home. More implants are to be administered throughout 2019.

According to Fact sheets dated March, 2019, on BVT's website, they expect the device to obtain market approval in 3 to 5 years.“

>>14730247
give it 20 years you'll get some cyborg eyes

>>14730247
don't be sad your dating pool will shrink due to being a helpless blind man
be happy your dating pool will expand due to being unable to see physical beauty

>>14730127
just wear glasses lmao

>>14730247
Dude, there's a blind writer I know who has a good-looking wife. He has the body of a globin. In his book, he wrote that he slept with a lot of chicks by first asking them to read for him. So I guess you shouldn't worry that much. You will go blind anyway, at least try and make the most of it. Also, learn to play an instrument.

>>14730127
People know you're going blind so might as well start pretending you've already lost complete sight as of now. You'll see (literally) how people treat you, what you're going to have to deal with. Plus, it may be fun. Your need something to cheer you up, no?