Blindness and Dyslexia in the Movements of Everyday Life in Toronto

This essay invokes the disabilities of the authors (Rod is blind, Tanya is dyslexic) as a way to explore the complexity of moving in the world together. What comes to the authors as they move through the world in the ways that they do is an environment animated by the complexity of not one but two disabilities, both of which are unique forms of perception within the geography of everyday life. When blindness and dyslexia move together, perceptions vary, sometimes greatly, casting doubt on the state-of-affairs constituting “reality.” This leads to a perception-negotiation already bound in trust in the possibility of shared perception.