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I work with an engineer who is visually challenged and uses emacs with dictation to code. He is a pretty phenomenal engineer.

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This makes me realize it must suck to be a mediocre blind developer.

The average person is just average. Unless there is something about visual impairment that makes them better at development, then I would expect them to be on average, just average developers.

Yet I would guess that visually impaired developers get more scrutiny. If nothing else, just because they are a novelty.

Anyhow, I guess I am just reminding myself to treat each person as an individual.

I feel I'm a mediocre blind developer and it does suck, mostly just the blind part though. I do my best not to let my coworkers know I'm blind (I work remotely.) Mostly to avoid either 'cripple porn' or being disregarded. Either way, it's easier.

I'm "on the spectrum" as they say, and I don't talk about it much; I'm quite concerned with what's called "passing". I want people around me to focus on the things I can do, rather than the things I can't do. Can totally empathize with that someone with a more acute disability than mine, such as blindness, would want to do the same.

Quite bizar you can hide the fact your blind at work. But yeah, why not, fuck pity.

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