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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/throwaway9999-22222 on 2025-12-14 21:57:34+00:00.
Innocuous thing to comment under a comment starting by "My egg donor, because she doesn't deserve the title of mother—" and ends with "and this is why to this day I have an inane phobia of—" in a Reddit thread about disturbing life anecdotes, right? Right? We've all done it. Then I clicked onto the storyteller's post history out of curiosity and scrolled a bit until I froze.
Y'all. I was replying to a blind person. Not just visually impaired, like full on total blindness in one eye and only light perception in the other. They are legally blind BECAUSE THEIR OPTIC NERVES NEVER DEVELOPPED. I said "what a horrible day to have eyes" to a BLIND PERSON WHOSE EYES ARE ONLY FOR DECORATION. Omfg. I felt so bad.
TL;DR: I was scrolling down some AskReddit or adjacent type post full of people sharing disturbing anecdotes about loved ones and replied to a particularly messed up one, "what a horrible day to have eyes." The person I was replying to is legally completely blind as they never developped optic nerves........
ETA: screenshot of it in the comments to prove it's not clanker slop. Couldn't make this up if I tried. I ran to my comment to edit it and profusely apologize