We would give our dog so many smooches that our bird learned how to do a kissy sound. Now when she wants attention from us, she makes kissy noises.

Thanks for the tag! I'd recommend "Deafness" by Rebecca Sanchez in the book Further Reading. Also look to University College London where Kate Rowley is just beginning a project on tactile sign language for Deafblind folks. Hopefully this helps them get started!

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This exemption has allowed nonprofit organizations such as BLC, NNELS, and CELA send braille and audio books, braille materials, braille tech, and more through the mail for free to blind Canadians who rely on these services for literacy and education. It is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

An email today from Braille Literacy Canada says that the federal budget currently under review will cut the Literature for the Blind exemption, and that it is being pushed through to be voted on before December 12. They are encouraging people to write to their MPs to oppose this cut.

It's possible that it's daunting because it's one of the last steps before submitting a thing. So it's entirely possible that I dread it because I dread submitting due to imposter syndrome. It never feels like it's ready. It will feel really good to get this particular thing submitted though!

Thank you! I will adapt. As I get used to the new place, it will be more familiar and I'll be able to visualize things better. I can sometimes—on a good day—think myself out of OCD spirals if I can visualize the thing it wants me to check. It takes time though.

My bag gets pulled aside by airport security every time I bring my braille stuff with me. Granted, "braille stuff" includes braille type, which appears to be a solid metal block when it goes through the scanner. It's always allowed through after I explain what it is, but they're always confused!

The issue here isn't even the time—I'm always early for everything, partly accounting for things like this—but I'm also physically disabled. The more I walk, the more pain I'm in, and that is amplified in below freezing temps. So, yesterday, my OCD caused me physical pain.

Thank you! I appreciate your help.

Thank you! That makes sense. I think the bent circle I have in my brain is not physically possible and it would just be shading to show shape. So it's probably easiest to just use two circles and say they're front and back of a sphere.

I don't know if any of that makes sense, and perhaps it's easier to just use two flat circles. But I figured I'd ask if anyone could tell me how to make circles look like they're part of a sphere.

I could just use two flat circles and say they form two halves of a sphere, but in my head it looks better if they're bent/shaped that the spherical implication is obvious. Each half is split into quarters, and each quarter is further quartered (like a colour wheel, which is what I currently have).

Not interactive, simply a diagram. In my head, it's just a circle that is shaped/bent in such a way that it's obvious it is curving to form half of a sphere, and the diagram itself would be two of these half-spheres—the "front" and "back" of the sphere.

Authors deserve their royalties, to earn a little for the blood, sweat, & tears they have shed over that book, for the hours they spent writing & revising.

I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.