About Lived InSights
Lived Insights is designed to share knowledge and tips that have made my life more livable.
As a DeafBlind author, I need to know Braille, even if I can't retain it. I still enjoy crafts and art of all kinds.
I miss cooking. As my memory began to fade, I created a cookbook to help me remember.
Due to EDS, MCAS, and a variety of other serious physical conditions, I also created a simple stretch program. Choose and use a few at your speed and pace.
All the crafts are designed to make life easier with various physical ailments. I even created EDS finger splints!
Art includes both paintings and drawings.
Artificial Intelligence Statement (AI)
As a deafblind, autistic, arthritic, and potentially dyslexic, author I do use:
Grammar check,
Spell check,
Online dictionary
Occasionally (On my Mac):
Dictation,
Speech
In:
Scrivener,
Pages on my Mac computer.
I should be using a screenreader and braille display, if I could retain the complicated directions.
ScreenReaders:
I have used VoiceOver (unsuccessfully),
Over a decade ago attempted to use JAWS.
Over a decade ago, I also unsuccessfully attempted to use Dragon dictation. It offered to uninstall Windows!
In the past, I have used:
Microsoft,
Word,
LibreOffice,
For research, I currently use :
Duck, Duck, Go,
(pre 2023) Bing,
(pre 2023) Google
Personally, I do not have a problem with people using assistive technology to transcribe and share the word trains in their brains.
Some assistive technology that I do not use include switches, and other personalized and specialized equipment.
Use of these tools should not be held against authors, as these authors often have to work three or four times as hard while using these tools, as able bodied people do without them.
Last UpDated: 07/15/26