There are few things I fear more in this world than going blind. Seeing is indescribably important to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think being autistic may even make me an even more highly visual person than the average person. And of course, being a roadgeek, the hobby is extremely visual, and losing one's vision would be detrimental to it. I would unsurprisingly much rather go deaf (though that is something I would rather not happen at all either) as well. What's very strange is that since I am very pessimistic and tend to worry way too much, I have actually pondered the theoretical scenario (what if I went blind) many, many times, in the anticipation and preparation that it may legitimately happen. What I have seemed to think is that should I theoretically go blind, I would probably mostly have to completely rely on imaginary roads. I would have to use my vivid imagination and creative brain to create fictional roads in my head, and ponder on those things. And if it were even physically possible,
attempt to draw them (vaguely) on a large mass of paper directly in front of me (despite being completely unable to see). I guess it could be possible to have information about roads (real stuff) read to me audibly, but I am so bad at coherently encoding stuff that is
only transduced through my ears (the sense of hearing), that it would be very unbearably hard to do, and it would take a lot of mental energy and focus and concentration, and it would only be possible every once in a while. After the theoretical event of me going blind, I think the only contact and communication I would have left with the roadgeek community would be to have family members and/or friends read posts to me from this forum (very hard though, since it is only audible, not visual), and then me vocally compose a response for them to type for me and post. This would be very complicated, but it would be the only possible way I could still communicate with the roadgeek community in any possible way - unless I was driven to a road meet, but I wouldn't be able to see anything there, of course, so I would have to rely completely on my hearing. Going blind for me is definitely a nightmare scenario, and it is one that I never, ever want to happen.
