Okay, able bodied twitter, especially male able bodied twitter, time to take a seat.

You do not have the right to ask a blind person if they're really blind.

You do not have the right to call a blind person a liar because they looked at their phone.

You do not have the right to interrogate a blind person in the middle of the street as to their medical history.

You do not have the right to police disability.

You. Do. Not. Have. The. Right.

This is street harassment. And it is violence.

And if you think you have these rights you need to take a fucking seat.

Part of why I say that our current media depictions are so toxic when it comes to blindness is because this is the result.

A blind woman does something that an angry man sees as a sighted action and decides she's a liar.

No matter how many times you repeat "yes I'm blind" they don't believe you because what they've been sold is the idea that blindness is a singular monolithic state.