“No world wears as well as it should,” said Auden, who was thinking of art and culture. But daily life doesn’t hold up either—especially if you have a disability. The things you hear from strangers are hackneyed and tedious—“Why don’t you look where you’re going if you’re blind?” or “How does the dog know when its time for you to go to the bathroom?” The frontiers of personhood are assaulted daily. On the 4 train in New York a woman once asked me if I knew she was a goddess. “Yes,” I said, “you’re Hera.” “That’s right,” she said. “How did you know?” “My dog told me,” I said. This satisfied her.
Planet of the Blind 