hi hello hey — apparently our eyeballs demande

Back in 2022, we dedicated an entire episode to our experiences with glasses and contacts, and while our diagnoses haven’t changed, our relationships with corrective lenses definitely have. So naturally, it was time for a sequel.

This week, Case shares her journey from trying progressives to fully embracing bifocals (granny-core, but make it functional), while Cass talks about wearing tinted contacts more often to help with photophobia and why they work so well for her and shares potentially the least glamorous contacts story ever told. We also swap stories about the strange realities of “corrected” vision, including the irony that our prescriptions can reduce eye strain and help us distinguish more detail… while still not letting us recognize faces from across the room.

hi hello hey — apparently we needed more hobbies??This week, we’re catching up on all the deeply important developments in our lives: hair journeys, nail journeys, emotional support apps, LinkedIn games, coloring books, rock climbing, baking projects, and the media consuming habits of two visually impaired women with access to streaming services.

Basically, this is our annual “what are we into lately?” episode where we talk about the random little things currently bringing us joy and occupying our brains. From Case setting goals with Finch to our shared obsession with Phineas and Ferb, consider this a cozy catch-up and proof that hobbies are, in fact, alive and well.

hi hello hey — we’re visually impaired

Hopefully this isn’t news to our audience considering we’ve made nearly 150 episodes of us yapping, largely about our blindness. We’ve done many an episode about disclosing our disabilities in different settings — jobs, friendships, dating, and learning how to say just enough without accidentally info-dumping on unsuspecting strangers.

Even with the same jobs and friends, we still find ourselves disclosing all the time, but nowhere does it feel more constant than while dating.

Cass is out there, and before meeting the love of her life, Case also often found herself playing what felt like a game: trying to disclose casually in a way that felt conversational instead of Serious™. Somewhere along the way, we realized we’d both become oddly skilled at finding ways to bring up blindness in nearly any topic of conversation.

Naturally, we decided to turn it into an actual game.

In this episode, we put our disclosure abilities to the test: can we find a way to disclose our blindness with any conversation prompt?

For more episodes on disclosing, check these out:

• 14. life, love, & dating with a disability for our thoughts on dating way back in 2021
• 38. our jobs, discrimination, & unattainable goals on disclosing for work
• 44. the beginner’s guide to disclosing disability on disclosing in dating and beyond
• 97. how we stopped word-vomiting all our struggles on oversharing or disclosing too soon
• 114. please, read the room!!! on when to disclose vs. when to let it go
• 124. we’ve changed our minds?: our 5 year podaversary on the ways we’ve changed over the years, including disclosure and accepting help