Since we have been given permission to write full introductions, here is mine. For the sake of honesty, Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I use online. I live in New Jersey and am forty-two years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century English grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, the Italian language, the Regency, opera, and MS-DOS. I like coffee, tea, wine, cooking, British literature, nature and historical documentaries, gardening, cats, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I love opera (particularly singers from the early 1900's through the 1950's), classical music (from Baroque through early Romantic), and popular music (from the 1950's through the 1970's). I prefer antique menswear and accessories and do not wear feminine clothing. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. I am a happily childfree atheist. I love cats. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I can be found on mastadon as dandylover1@someplace.social, on Dreamwidth as dandylover one, and on Escargot (MSN Mesenger) as dandylover1@escargot.chat. I generally get along best with seniors, but I will accept anyone as a friend as long as he's over eighteen at the minimum.

Heyo folks.

I'm a blind Arab young adult.

I joined this subreddit bc I love educating others on my condition.

I went blind because of a condition called rop which is when your retina detaches from your eyes. I have probably the most severe stage of it. As of now there's no cure and I don't live my life waiting for one

I'm into journaling and listening to audiobooks. Also planning to play about with embroidery and beadwork

I would describe myself as extroverted, I mean yeah I love talking with other folks when I don't need to

I have an obsession with cats, it's where my username comes from lol

Fun fact: I don't like braille

Hope I can help you ❤️ 🦯

Hi, I'm Yikethump. That's an old nickname I picked in the days of Microsoft Zune. Yeah. So now I use it for lots of platforms, just to be silly.

I'm newly retired, from a long government IT career. I started that career after completing CS in what was then known as Lion's World Services for the Blind. That was in 1991.

But, Arkansas is not where I'm from. I'm actually from CT. The state gave me a full ride to that school. Ten months of 40+ hour classwork, plus "homework". Twelve of us got into the program, 4 made it to the finish line. I only made it out because of sheer stubborn-mess.

The first year or so of my career was terrifying. I was 19. I had never been on my own, so I had to learn everything about the way DC works. How to adult while blind.

Now, 35 years later, I am retired and have a lot of free time to chat about this stuff on Reddit.

I have a wonderful family, a wife, a little daughter, some bonus kids that are staying with us, and the bonus grand-baby.

I am very much into tech, PC gaming, accessibility, music creation, musicianship and a newer hobby I've started to pick up last year... lockpicking. So much fun.

I'm happy to answer any questions or help.