Death, Sex & Money - "There’s Never a Perfect Time to Say, 'I’m Blind'"
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
I talk with a listener named Fey about her deteriorating vision, how and when to disclose her disability, and she gets a pep talk from EDM singer Lachi.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that scares me the most of anything, like telling somebody romantic or otherwise that I might be blind. |
| 0:08.5 | There might be a day where I am using a cane and guide dog that, like, I genuinely just can't see without a lot more intervention. |
| 0:18.6 | I can't get around. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:21.5 | I don't know how comfortable I am with that. |
| 0:26.9 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:30.7 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:34.2 | and need to talk about more. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Anna Sail. |
| 0:43.1 | There we go. |
| 0:49.4 | Hi. |
| 0:50.8 | Hi. |
| 0:51.5 | How are you? |
| 0:52.2 | Oh my gosh, I'm in a robe. |
| 0:54.1 | I was not anticipating being on camera. Hi. How are you? Oh my gosh, I'm in a robe. I was not anticipating being on camera. |
| 0:58.0 | Last year, I FaceTime with a listener named Faye. We quickly changed to audio only. She's 27, Nigerian American, and at the time she was living with her family in Maryland. |
| 1:09.0 | We talked when my book, Let's Talk About Hard Things, was first coming out, |
| 1:13.9 | and we'd asked listeners about the hard conversations they were struggling to start. |
| 1:19.2 | Faye had emailed the show about what she called her tricky sense of disability identity. |
| 1:24.9 | Faye has a form of retinal dystrophy, which is a degenerative eye disease, but it's an |
| 1:29.7 | invisible disability. And she said then she'd been struggling with how and when to talk about it |
| 1:36.1 | with people. The hard conversation, I keep attempting to figure out how to navigate would be |
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