Hello!
Some of you may be familiar with Desirée on Tik Tok, YouTube or Instagram as the Nearly Blind Knitter and Stitcher. Even if this is your first introduction, Welcome!
Abridged Story:
Our founder Desirée is legally blind and comes from a blind family, she also grew up in the blind community, so blindness is very normalized for her.
Desirée is a renaissance woman; she has tried lots of actives from indoor and outdoor to introverted and extraverted. She loves knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
“I get excited about it and love to share whatever piece of info or fact I have discovered and love to share it cause I’m excited about it, not to be a know it all.”
Her family has been through hell and back multiple times. Desirée had two daughters. The oldest died in June of 2023.
“We knew it was coming for 10 years, she was 22 when she passed.”
Her other daughter is also medically complex and is in and out of the ED and Hospital more than her sister was.
“In dealing with my own blindness and both of my daughters’ medical complexities, our family learned for us the best way to cope is with a very dark sense of humor, first responders, ED and ICU I’m looking at you when I say dark. We also observed that you can get away with saying very cheeky things on t-shirts that you can’t say to someone’s face, and with our current culture people seem to pay more attention to a t-shirt then what you are telling them. So Flaunt Your Ability was born.
Desirée’s goal with these shirts is to be funny while making a point and educating people while not crossing the line into offensive. However, what offends one person doesn’t necessarily offend another. Words can be as powerful as you let them.
If you have a shirt you’d like to see made, please send us an email at desireesatelier@gmail.com. We will take your idea under consideration; we may even contact you for input.