852. How does it feel to be blind? (Article & Vocabulary)

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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How does it feel to have a visual impairment? How do blind people navigate the world? How do other people treat you, if you are blind? And, how do we talk about blindness and other forms of disability in English? This episode is inspired by a listener called Hafid, who contacted me recently. I talk about the subject of blindness and disability in general, read an article written by a partially sighted person, and explain a list of words and phrases we should use when describing different forms of disability. Also includes various medical vocabulary such as the different parts of the eye and other related topics.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is episode number 852, and I actually finished recording and editing this a few days ago,
0:07.0	and what you're going to hear in this episode is what I recorded a few days ago,
0:11.0	but since then I've realized that I have a few other things I just
0:14.5	want to add at the start of the episode and a few other things at the end as well
0:18.0	so the bit that you're listening to now is stuff that I'm recording after I already did the rest of it. Is that confusing?
0:24.7	Maybe. Anyway, so the little things I wanted to say at the beginning of this episode.
0:29.3	First of all, thank you for the comments on the previous episode. That's number 851 which was about the Beatles song now and then the new Beatles song
0:41.0	The last Beatles song the final Beatles song so I did the last Beatles song, the final Beatles song. So I did the last episode which was a ramble
0:46.3	all about that. And I know that my rambling episodes are pretty popular, which is nice, but I wasn't
0:51.6	completely sure how you would receive an entire
0:55.0	rambling episode about the Beatles or one where I talk for most of the
1:00.0	episode all about the Beatles and only the Beatles I wasn't sure how that would be received by the
1:02.7	I wasn't sure how that would be received by you.
1:05.2	So I was very encouraged by the responses that I've received and I'm continuing to
1:10.7	receive to that episode.
1:13.0	So that's nice.
1:14.0	And I'm especially glad that I got comments from non-Beatle
1:17.6	fans who said that they found the episode very interesting
1:21.3	and also touching. So that's nice. Of course, when I finish. episode very
1:25.0	and also touching.
1:26.0	and then published it, I instantly thought of various other things
1:29.0	that I'd forgotten to mention,
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