The bureaucracy of blindness is nothing new

[kestrell]

I have a rant/comedy routine in which I attempt to describe to people the insanity of having to provide quote proof of blindness unquote in order to receive services, despite the fact that I have prosthetic eyes, but I hadn't heard before that, even if one is goddamn Horatio Nelson, the bureaucracy might keep insisting that you weren't really blind
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1481516/Nelson-didnt-wear-eye-patch-says-historian.html

I'm still trying to find documentation regarding the time a superior officer was giving Nelson a signal to disengage from battle, and Nelson held his telescope to his blind eye so he could later claim he didn't see anything. Now that I think on it, there's probably a reason blind people don't get told these stories.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I’m shocked that you haven’t gone to the Mass Commission and placed your eyes on the counter.

Because that,s totally something you’d do.

[kestrell]

Don't think I haven't made the offer, but that tends to make the gatekeepers *completely bugfuck*--like they've never seen somebody strip off body parts.

Also, removing your eyeballs does not count as proof--only paper is proof.