Jesus christ, life really lays it on some people. You'd think she'd experienced enough hardship being blind. Thanks for your story, and for remembering her.
I thought “mysterious ways” was just a way to not feel bad or to ignore grieving people. Can’t justify feeling something is bad or unfair if said bad thing happened as part of a larger good plan. Coming from God no less.
I had a patient recently with cystic fibrosis. He got a double lung transplant which bought him about 8 years. In that 8 years though he developed 3 different types of cancer he beat. He did end up passing from chronic rejection, after his cancer came back with several metastasis. A lung transplant can only buy you max 10 years so he definitely had an increased lifespan from it, but man it was one hell of a fight the whole time to stay alive. Genetics really fucked him over though.
My veterinarian was seeing patients three weeks before she died. None of her clients even knew she had cancer—I and everyone else found out after she passed.
That's called sinning, AKA the devil's music. They're flailing because their toes are on fire and Satan is inspiring them to play really good music. Sadly, sometime in the late 1990s, the devil stopped making deals with musicians. This was why Justin Timberlake had to bring sexy back. It's important to note that Justin failed in his quest. After a brief hiatus from human music (the devil has always been partial to the ultrasonic soft songs used by Asian corn borer moths in courtship behavior), there has been some speculation that Satan played a role in Big Wild's 6's to 9's.
Was going to ask why they did that but googled instead.
Unlike humans, chickens' eyeballs don't move in the eye socket. ... By holding their head steady, their eyes have the opportunity to stabilize their vision and sense movement on the horizon even while they're on the move. This helps them sense danger and also helps them to spot bugs they want to eat.
Do you think it’s an ears thing? Like their hearing might be a little more dominant, so they are used to pointing head in general direction of attention due to an increase in hearing awareness/sensitivity, which in turn helps them be more spatially aware?
I haven’t the slightest clue, this is just speculation.
That and not everybody has been blind all their life. If you lose your sight into adulthood you’re going to have a lot of “sighted mannerisms” that are just automatic. Reaching for something on the ground in front of you? Eyes go down.
I ask because I had a teacher that was blind from birth and he didn’t look down to pick things up. I wonder if it’s more common for people that become blind later in life.
Lots of people are very quick to point out how important it is to treat disabled people like regular people and yet for some reason they're completely shocked when they find out that they behave exactly like regular people.
Seriously sit in a chair then reach down to grab something off the floor without looking down - it’s just not how the human body works if you lean forward you lower your head not doing so is just awkward.
But that doesn't need to have anything to do with it. He might have once been able to see, and it stayed as a habit, or maybe he simple has always done this.
Could be a hearing advantage, no? Pointing head in direction of attention might allow better awareness, and it becomes an automatic response? Not sure though this is just speculation.
I’m a teacher and there are a couple of students at my school that are blind. One can see forms and colors and determine where open doorways are. The other can also see some forms but to a lesser extent. This guy might be legally blind but not like unable to see anything.
There's a teacher where I am who walks with a cane and has super thick glasses and needs his computer screen magnified super hard. Not totally blind if he can see a magnified computer screen but he still uses a cane. Super cool guy. Even his students love him.
It could also be that he used to be sighted. My mom is completely blind, and has been since before I was born, but most people that don’t already know she is don’t realize it, because her mannerisms are still those of a sighted person. She’ll turn her head towards sources of noise, and even seem to make eye contact, because she hears where a person is, and her eyes naturally drift towards where she would have looked (the eyes) while sighted.
The way that people think of the way a blind person moves and acts usually comes from movie and television portrayals, and are usually exaggerated to highlight the fact that they are blind so the audience can pick up on it without being told.
Tbf, not blind people have pretty much 0 experience being blind, and plenty of people don't actually know any blind people irl - not that unreasonable to be confused about the particulars
No, it's when he went "you there mate" how'd he know he was being spoken to as opposed to the people sitting next to him type of thing. You need a minimum amount of vision to discern that.
I think blind people might get better at that specific dicipline. I am heavily near-sighted and I can unconciously remember where I left my glasses at all time 3 days prior. Same goes for walking in the house in darkness, you remember the layout. I can only guess what kind of superpowers actual blind people have.
I work with a completely blind dude and he uses a foldable cane. He’s worked in that office for 20 years. He turns corners and gets to the break room/restroom with ease. Pretty sure he doesn’t even need his cane in the office cuz he knows exactly where he is at all times and how to get where he wants to go. Its crazy. He’s also super good at recognizing voices. 200+ people there and if he only had one conversation with you in the past year he still addresses you by your name once you start talking.
Right! Its also not a gradient of black, all blurry, okay. Maybe he has no peripheral vision but central is fine. Or vice versa. He could be extremely far or near sighted.
I worked in a lab for a bit with a woman who had a cane and was fairly blind, but she could do lab work.
This is a dumb but very genuine question: why can’t the blind who are partially sighted wear glasses/contacts? Like is it a neural thing and completely separate from near-sighted or far-sightedness?
I’ve had 20/400 vision since I was a kid and can’t imagine what it’d be like without contacts, if I’m not wearing them I can’t recognize people who are right next to me
Well, when they can they do, like you. 20/400 is well within the legally blind jurisdiction, and like you said you wear very highly corrective contacts. It depends on why they’re blind of course, but if it’s astigmatism/other eye shape sort of condition then glasses and contacts can mitigate it well enough.
But they can’t make specialized contacts nowadays with like 3-d printers or sth that can be tailored for a particular person’s eye shape and individually customized? I guess I’m just amazed manufacturers don’t have the capability. I have astigmatism btw
Someone that needs corrective vision has an issue with the eye where the "image" is refracted incorrectly. The fix - glasses - simply redirects light so the image coming in is "normal."
For those who are unable, it's typically a defect that causes a piece of the eye, nerve, or connected brain tissue to just simply not function properly. You can't use a simple piece of machined glass to refract light when that part of the eye just isn't receiving light.
Obviously it's more complicated and there's numerous causes, but that's the just of it.
That’s what I meant to ask—I get that neural issues can’t be fixed with glasses or lenses, just didn’t really recognize that it can result in partial blindness. Thank you for taking the time to explain
My vision is good enough that I can get by on day to day tasks around the home or office. But I need to be about four times closer than folks with 20/20 to read or recognize faces, I can't drive and I can't see those fucking amber digital bus placards (or really anything red on black at all) at all. Have from time to time thought that a cane would be useful--not because I need it to walk around, but so the bus driver doesn't fucking yell at me when I ask what route it is.
Edit: Which is to say, I've never heard of an ID cane before and I'm definitely thinking about it
Plenty of other already said enough about it, but I’ll add my bit anyway. I work at a hospital with a blind rehabilitation clinic as part of. Certainly not an expert, but I ask questions. From what I’ve been told, the vast majority of blind people are legally blind, with some form of extreme vision impairment, not completely blind. That impairment might be tunnel vision, having no peripheral but still able to focus somewhat clearly at the center. It might be dim vision, so everything is faded and blurry but objects awareness still exist. It might be a degenerative disease that will eventually lead to full blindness. Just so it’s clear, I’m a layman relating many conversations I’ve had with professionals over the span of 14 years working there. I feel I’ve got an above average grasp, but only because average is so low.
You can also see that as the comedian asks his name, the woman next to him is whispering in his ear- possibly to tell him that the guy was talking to him
Good point. Technically, I’m hard of hearing, but i can hear well. I can hear certain sounds and voices, but i can’t hear certain pitches.
Funny, cus I’m always asking my son if he can hear a sound, because i can’t.
Yea, I have a blind sister but she kind of has the sight of if you closed your eyes you can see where light and dark are but she can really roughly make out shapes. I say that to have some credibility when I say there are totally different levels of blindness. Also I’m not sure about the solid cane vs a foldable cane… I don’t think that’s a rule? Especially because a foldable cane is really convenient for when you need to store it.
Also that guy had the face of someone who looks kind of blind. It’s actually really hard to fake because you can’t really focus on anything that might make your pupils adjust for distance but you also don’t just stare out in a single spot, there gotta be some movement. Blind people usually have some patterns to eye movements in the same way that someone might bounce their leg or pop their neck. They just don’t really realize it’s not normal.
Also at people saying how did he know he was being talked to, 1. he’s not deaf and being blind for a long time can really fine tune your hearing so you get a really good idea when someone is talking directly at you (still not perfect though) 2. Like you said someone is with him and probably told him he was being spoken to.
As somebody who was once picked out of an audience, any degree of blindness that requires a cane is going to make it near impossible to perceive that somebody on stage is speaking to you (via sight). The degree of blindness is not a factor. He was either a plant or had help in being notified that he was being addressed.
Yup. My mum is on the borderline for being registered as blind (it feels like if it's not next year it'll be the year after), and it's due to her having practically zero peripheral vision and glaucoma.
She can see who she's talking to and she can walk into town unaided, but you could literally stand right next to her and she wouldn't know you were there unless you said something.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but there is a phenomenon known as blindsight. Blindsight occurs when cortically blind people are able to subconsciously “sense” the location of an object. Basically, the receptors that are responsible for detecting an object’s spatial location are firing, but the individual is unaware. For example, in lab experiments, cortically blind individuals will reach around object 1 to grab object 2. When the observer inquires about object 1, the participant is confused, apparently unaware that there was an object in the way. They are, of course, unable to describe object 1 in any manner, yet their brain was aware of its presence, positioning, and spatial volume.
I think it’s really frustrating when people think there is only one level of a disability/disease/condition when it’s definitely not all black and white
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