1. Not blind
2. One who receives state assistance or preferential treatment ostensibly for poor eyesight or impaired vision
3. A panhandler who sports the accoutrements of the sightless: a seeing eye dog, dark tinted eyeglasses, a cane , a tin cup, and a hand-lettered sign soliciting donations from the public, but whose eyesight within normal range. A beggar who feigns blindness.
4. One who wears eyeglasses and exploits and exaggerates the condition as a disability that requires government assistance, financial or otherwise.
My cabdriver told us "being legally blind has a lot of bennies" such as "they can't fire me for having too many accidents"
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.