hey hi hello, and welcome back!

First things first, we definitely said we were posting monthly on our intro episode, but given the amazing reception, our intense passion, and state of affairs circa 2020, we couldn’t resist switching to bi-weekly (or is it semi-monthly…? it’s every other Tuesday, to clear the air).!

While we did our best to make our intro fun and engaging, we also couldn’t wait to dive into the meat of this podcast: living our lives with a rare disease. For this second episode, we wanted to jump into Blindness 101, so to speak, and also begin to scratch the surface of our corner of the very diverse disability world.

This episode starts out with some housekeeping announcements, but we quickly move into talking about mobility tools like the white cane and the guide dog. Before we do that, though, we wanted to give a bit of disclaimer/background information as to how our vision works and why we benefit from these tools when we have some functional vision. You’ll also notice there’s a running theme of “faking” disability in different ways, starting with the “impostor syndrome” we sometimes feel of not being “disabled enough” to use these tools, followed by people accusing us of faking blindness, and all wrapped up with a typical Case & Cass rant on fake service dogs. We end the episode by playing a little game listing some “Blind Girl Moments” we wrote separately and asked each other if we’ve done these things to give a little look into our lives.