Re: Do you feel excluded?
Again as I said in the socialisation topic, it depends upon the people. Frankly yes the prevalence of funny videos and conversations that basically are just variations on the "ooooh look at that" theme are down right depressing. However, if you can firstly find intelligent people with actual interests in common, and secondly actually engage with those people, then things can work out, the trouble is those are both pretty huge ifs and not necessarily dependent upon you.
You can be as charming and competent and witty and well dressed as you like, but if the group of people or dynamics or interests or hell just the atmosphere is wrong your on to a none starter and there's nothing you can do about it, particularly since just because you happen to get something right with some people for a short while, since those people always have the option to leave and find more friends elsewhere pretty easily, don't expect them to actually give a rat's rear end about keeping in contact once you're out of their immediate sphere of influence.
My really good experiences at uni and with my role playing friends used to make me believe that if you tried long enough you could find reasonable people, however these days my general opinion is that most people are gold fish with short attention spans who only care about what new shiny thing they happen to see, and only remember you as long as your in front of their fishy little eye balls.
Yes, I admit I am quite cynical, but bare in mind this comes from a great deal of experience, also I'll freely admit that I got hugely, stupidly amazingly lucky in running into my best friend and getting married to her, but unfortunately it seems that the hollywood cliche of "us against the world" seems very much true.
Oh, and as for blind people, well its a little difficult when most blind organisations are pretty exclusively aimed at people age 60 and over, and those rare occasions you run into younger blind people they're usually graduates of braille jails.
suffice it to say, people are a problem.
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