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my favorite Stevie joke was in an interview where he was making jokes about being blind but then ended by joking "it could be worse,  at least I'm not black"

Ahhh people not understanding blindness is a spectrum not always just eternal darkness lol

Courtside seats are probably much better because he can hear the actual game and not all the idiot drunk uncles around him.
Also, hes stevie wonder..... he aint sitting with the peasants.

I'm "legally blind" with just 10% vision field left, zero depth perception. When explaining why a significant visual loss can be called blind I simply tell folks
"If you woke up in the morning with my vision I guarantee you the first words out of your mouth would be  "I'M BLIND!!"

I once had a blind coworker who told me he and some other blind people wear sunglasses for the benefit of sighted people. Since it was impossible for him to make direct eye contact with people, sometimes people would be unsettled by his seemingly wandering eyes in conversation. With sunglasses, he could turn his head to near enough where the person was without needing to worry about having precise eye contact.
Also, Stevie Wonder paying for courtside seats could also just be a way to not be stormed by fans in the general seats.

I think Kevin should do a conspiracy theories on Simon being American with a fake accent ! Then we can all sit back and enjoy the rants !!!

My parents know a couple who are both blind. One of them commutes across Sydney every day by train. When they stayed with us they asked how many doors down the corridor from their bedroom the toilet was. I told them and offered to leave the doors open so they could hear the echo as they walked past. They said it was fine and it was actually easier to count closed doors as the echo is very different between a closed door and a wall. When my dad walked them around the house they asked what the large new object was beside the house. My dad said he’d bought a caravan since they last visited, which was five years prior. They also raised a daughter, they kept forgetting to turn lights on for her when she was young but she said it was fine and got very used to walking around a dark house most of the time, only turning on lights when she needed to read or do something requiring good vision.

My father was friends with a blind mine. He told me a story of when he was visiting him. He was leaving and asked, "Lights on or off?" The blind man said,"surprise me"

Blind people have a wonderful sense of humor.

I've been told that blind people also wear sunglasses to keep themselves from getting poked in the eye by branches and other obstacles. Just because the eye can't see doesn't mean it can't feel.

Honestly, the more I hear, the clearer it becomes that Stevie sounds like an incredibly fun person to be around. Clever folks who enjoy jokes can often be kinda insufferable, but instead it sounds like he squarely falls into the "uses his cleverness for a good time" camp.

It's sad, not just with blindness, but with all form of disabilities, many expect disabled to act like helpless children, so as soon as somebody disabled is sucessful and independent, they think they can't be disabled.

Ironically,  I feel like this has been cemented by all those feelgood movies getting awards and praise for depicting disabled people as helpless and only existing for the real protagonists to learn a lesson about appreciating their own lives or similar.

This kind of shit bothers me so much. I’m legally deaf, but I do retain some hearing (for now anyways, I have a degenerative disease that will eventually kill all the nerves in my ears) and people will be like “what do you mean you’re hearing impaired? You heard that one thing I said at that party in 1992, and the music was real loud. You can’t possibly be deaf.” It frustrating and frankly just gross.

It’s sad, disgusting and depressing to note that after the success of British disabled athletes at the 2012 London Paralympics, the number of aggressive verbal and physical attacks by able bodied members of the public directed towards regular disabled people, increased; they were subjected to harassment as to why they weren’t able to do the amazing things that Paralympic athletes did, completely failing to ask themselves why they as able bodied people weren’t able to do the amazing things that our GB Olympic athletes did! Disabled people were routinely targeted and called lazy and fakers for not being able to excel in sports, and interrogated as to why they received disability benefits when they obviously didn’t need them. The ignorant ableism of some people is despicable.

Stevie Wonder is not blind, it's his eyes that are actually blind.

Steve Wonder would be the one to spread the rumor that he's not blind 😂

I have a friend who is blind, and her friends used to find an empty parking lot and let her driver their car around. Obviously never drove with other cars. It's more common than people think. She also is a concert level pianist, singer, plays guitar,  and has multiple college degrees. She is an expert level knitter and crocheter. Her other friends and I joke we sometimes forget she is blind.

That every single person who claims he can see is a) a close friend of Stevie's, and b) has a decent to good sense of humor, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Stevie Wonder and his friends all have a decades long inside joke going that has gotten way out of hand.

The basketball thing seemed pretty simple to me. If he's in floor seats he can feel the vibrations more.

Q. Have you seen Stevie Wonder’s house?

A. Neither has he!