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Disability is a failure of imagination

A foundational essay on why the right frame for our work is not charity, and not even accessibility — but imagination, and what we owe each other when imagination falls short.

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Said Mohaddes Sadeqi
·6 min · Foundational
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Real people, real independence. These are the stories that remind us why the work matters.

Editorial · Open call
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This page is for the community we serve. We are not seeding it with stock content.

The first profiles arrive when the first conversations finish.

We are commissioning our first community profiles now. They will feature blind and low-vision users of our tools, builders in our open-source community, educators, athletes, advocates, and people whose stories deserve a wider audience. Each will be reported, written with care, and reviewed by the subject before publication. If you would like to be one of those subjects — or to suggest someone we should profile — please get in touch.

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Founder's series

From <em>The Third Eye</em> — six short pieces by our founder

If you want to understand where this work comes from, six short excerpts from Said Mohaddes Sadeqi's memoir-in-progress are linked from the About page. These are not part of the regular community archive.

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Said Mohaddes Sadeqi
·Memoir · 30 min total
From the Book · The Third Eye

The Third Eye — a memoir-in-progress.

Said Mohaddes Sadeqi

Six short pieces adapted from a memoir-in-progress by our founder. They cover the eight months he spent blind in a shelter in Kabul after a 2021 explosion, the surgeries that returned partial sight, and the design philosophy behind the Third Eye Kit. Read these if you want to understand where the work comes from. Skip them if you'd rather hear from the community we serve — those stories live on the Stories tab.

  1. 01 5 min

    The day the world ended at an airport

    On the day everything changed, the sun was an ordinary sun. The first chapter of the memoir opens at the moment of the explosion at Kabul airport in 2021, told from the inside of an experience there was no language for. Excerpt to be published when the chapter is final.

    Excerpt coming soon
  2. 02 6 min

    The room where the world forgot us

    The second chapter is set in the eight months of darkness that followed — a shelter in Kabul, no tools, no help, the world's attention briefly on the country and then gone. A meditation on the difference between being seen and being noticed. Excerpt forthcoming.

    Excerpt coming soon
  3. 03 5 min

    The little boy who asked what seeing was like

    A child in the shelter had been blind from birth. He asked what seeing was like, and his question reframed the entire problem. The chapter the engineer-in-progress would later trace as the seed of the Third Eye Kit.

    Excerpt coming soon
  4. 04 5 min

    In dreams, I had light

    On the strange paradox of dreaming with sight when waking life is dark — and what that taught the author about how perception is built, not given.

    Excerpt coming soon
  5. 05 6 min

    Blindness isn't silence. It's a language.

    A defense of blindness as its own grammar of the world — texture, sound, distance, weight. The case the author makes against "compensation" framing in mainstream assistive technology.

    Excerpt coming soon
  6. 06 5 min

    A boiled potato that felt like Harvard

    Years later, the author is studying for an exam in Pakistan. A boiled potato becomes the breakthrough. The chapter ends where the work begins.

    Excerpt coming soon

The book is in progress. Excerpts will publish here as chapters finalise — subscribe via the newsletter on the Blogs tab to be notified.