#deepsy — Public Fediverse posts

If you’re not acquainted with the idiosyncratic (to say the least) home run calls of John Sterling, the Yankees radio legend who passed away Monday, please allow me to familiarize you via this little tribute. https://deepsy.net/p/john-sterlings-home-run-calls-in #Yankees #MLB #Baseball #BaseballMastadon #JohnSterling #DeepSy #humor

One of the more unhinged things I’ve ever written: https://deepsy.net/p/tips-for-ending-unwelcome-conversations-b8c #DeepSy #Humor #Comedy #Disability #Blind #blindness

And for a bunch of my thoughts on sports fandom as a blind person, catch the last episode of my already-existing show, Deep Sy: https://deepsy.net/p/bonus-episode-blind-sports-fandom/ #DeepSy #Baseball #Football #Soccer #Blind #Blindness #disability

A corporate team building exercise where the participants experience blindness. Not by putting on blindfolds. By being actually blinded. Satire is fun. https://deepsy.net/p/realistic-blindness-simulation-exercises-d7e?utm_source=publication-search #Satire #Humor #Comedy #Disability #Blindness #Blind #DeepSy

Ride the brainevator all the way to the deepest subbasement and watch how my mind, unbeknownst to me, packs itself full of maps and rules and calculations just so I can safely get where I need to go. Plus, the time I got directional instructions from a sighted stranger that were so chef’s-kiss perfect they haunt me every time I receive the usual pointless dribble.
https://deepsy.net/p/mental-maps-and-my-instinctive-subconscious-de4?utm_source=publication-search #DeepSy #Humor #Blind #Blindness #Disability #comedy

A stoned CVS employee tries to help me find a birthday card for a girl I was trying to date, and other adventures in shopping while blind
https://deepsy.net/p/toothpicks-poison-spinach-and-a-lewd #Blind #Disability #Humor #Humour #Comedy #DeepSy

A highly entertaining and possibly high CVS employee helping me find a birthday card for a girl I was trying to go out with. A clip from my podcast. #DeepSy #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Dating

An anti-ableist Christmas story, in Dr. Seuss meter and rhyme. You can read it here or listen to me read it. I have a one-month paywall, hence the Christmas story in mid January https://deepsy.net/p/how-the-grinch-failed-to-steal-christmas-283 #Humor #Disability #Blind #Blindness #DeepSy

A crash course in having normal conversations with blind people by really committing yourself to the idea that we are regular humans. https://open.substack.com/pub/syhoekstra/p/speaking-to-blind-people-like-were-74e?r=acb5w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Humor #DeepSy

A post about the many hilarious, absurd, and heartwarming ways I’ve had kids interact with my blindness, and about parenting a sighted toddler. This podcast version of the post also features my toddler reading her own lines. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-toddler-understands-blindness-feat-my-toddler/id1831543927?i=1000739506365 #Blind #Blindness #Humor #DeepSy

A satirical jab at the sighted people who create technology for blind people without ever talking to us about what we need, in parity radio news form. Hear the rest at https://deepsy.net/p/bonus-episode-glass-eye-witness-news #Blind #Blindness #Disability #AssistiveTech #Parody #Satire #DeepSy

A post that begins with me yelling and shoving a kid against a vending machine as part of a teacher’s actual classroom assignment in high school. But it’s really about the emotions behind transitioning to using a white cane while losing vision. Read it, or listen to me read it, here: https://deepsy.net/p/my-slow-stubborn-reluctant-transition #Blind #Blindness #Disability #Humor #WhiteCane #DeepSy

My 3YO making her podcast debut, reading her own lines from my most recent story about how she understands my blindness. It's behind the paywall now, but will come out in a month. https://deepsy.net/p/how-my-toddler-understands-blindness-412 #Blind #Blindness #Disability #Humore #DeepSy #Comedy #Podcasts #audio

Out from behind the paywall this week is a post about faith healers failing to cure me of blindness before I either escape or convince them to go away. It’s a fun one. People being really aggressive about religion is fun, right?
https://deepsy.net/p/how-to-escape-from-faith-healers-043 #Blind #DeepSy #Humor #Comedy #Faith #Christianity #Disability

To find out what my trash butlers are, and why you are one of them, check out the new post and podcast out from the paywall this week. It’s three stories of times I didn’t stand up for the equality of blind people because in the moment sighted people’s ignorance was personally beneficial. But don’t call me hypocritical. Trash butlers can’t talk to me that way! https://deepsy.net/p/how-to-benefit-from-sighted-peoples-de9?r=acb5w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true #Blind #Disability #Blindness #Humor #Comedy #DeepSy

Disability airport assistants: sometimes they’re awkward. Sometimes they’re rude. Sometimes their behavior boggles the mind. Sometimes they approach you in a bathroom snapping on a rubber glove with God only knows what intent. These are my stories. Out from the paywall today, a post and podcast episode.

Post: https://deepsy.net/p/the-bewildering-world-of-disability-f8a

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bewildering-world-of-disability-airport-escorts/id1831543927?i=1000730814729
#Blind #Blindness #Disability #Travel #DeepSy #Humor #comedy