πŸŒŠπŸ’« How I Travel Despite Having Agoraphobia

When I say I travel, people picture courage. When I say I have agoraphobia, they picture stillness. The truth lives somewhere between those two images. I travel the way musicians breathe before a note β€” not because I’m fearless, but because I know the rhythm of what I’m about to face. Agoraphobia doesn’t mean β€œnever leave.” It means the world outside the door hums too loud sometimes. The edges blur. The air feels full of invisible eyes. So I build structure around that noise β€” not cages, but corridors of calm. πŸ’» Before every trip, I build the soundscape. I learn the airport by ear β€” the tone of each app, the order of each announcement. I pack headphones, schedules, and exit routes like instruments in a case. Technology is my compass: VoiceOver reads what I can’t see, GPS whispers direction, and my playlists keep my pulse from spinning out. πŸ“± My phone becomes a co-pilot. It reads menus, boarding passes, hotel forms β€” everything. When the crowd noise gets sharp, I anchor in the voice of the device, steady and factual. The data gives me structure; the voice gives me grounding. 🫢 I travel through connection. Someone always knows where I am β€” not to control me, but to be a voice in the dark if panic cuts through the signal. Safety, for me, is a conversation. When I move through the world, it’s not about conquering fear. It’s about orchestrating it β€” turning all that static into rhythm I can follow. Agoraphobia doesn’t keep me home. It teaches me how to move differently β€” by sound, by sequence, by faith that I can breathe anywhere the music plays. #AgoraphobiaAwareness #BlindTravelers #VoiceOver #Accessibility #madamgreen #RosieWrites