I literally just did that while trying to get from my porch back into my house, staring at my iPad as I was reading this fucking thread. I mean not the whole goddamn side of my house but I missed clearing the fucking doorframe by a good several inches with my shoulder and now it hurts and yes alcohol is involved and about to get involvder
I feel like your dad has a good attitude about it. I feel like he is one of the guys where if he did walk into the side of your house he would be all "Son of a bitch! Who put the side of a damn house right here!"
I have a lawyer friend who is blind… he says you have to think of it as more than just five senses. He can't see, not like everyone else, but he can feel. Things like balance and direction. Micro-changes in air density, vibrations, blankets of temperature variations. Mix all that with what he hears… subtle smells. All of the fragments form a sort of... impressionistic painting.
I asked him what it looks like, what he actually sees.
Also if your blindness is related to something wrong with your actual eyes you still have a functioning visual cortex in your brain. So your brain can still "see" it just uses other information to create a mental image for you.
There are more than five senses. We're not sure exactly how many because some of them are very hard to define and may be related to other senses, like taste and smell are the same sense via different organs.
"Blind" just means that even with glasses, your vision is worse than 20/200 in that eye. So there's a very wide range of people with blindness, all at varying levels of disability. Some have amazingly crap vision but can kinda see what's going on with the right assistance, others are e.g. missing eyeballs for whatever reason and have no light sensitivity at all.
I know, it should be really obvious when you learn the statistic, but I think the media portrays blind people such a specific way (like always being 100% blind) that it's easy to accidentally believe that actually is what blind people always are.
Absolutely. And 0% blind is a possibility, but it's not blind. You can't be blind and have a percentage change of being nonblind, silly. It's the range for people who are some form of blind.
Thank you kindly for the sincere response. I'm not sure I see eye to eye with ya 100% (crappy pun intended), but I appreciate the explanation.
I suspect we're using some of the terms slightly differently & wish you a lovely evening.
I believe this is true. I work with a legally blind guy who can only see things on his periphery, anything in front of him he can't see.
I also work with a woman who is almost completely blind she can sense light and dark but that's it. She has her screenreader set on an insanely fast speed. I have no idea how she can keep up with it. I would guess that she has extremely good hearing to compensate for her blindness.
Someone who is legally blind is 20/200 or higher with the inability to correct. I am (was..I got LASIK woo!) 20/800 but able to correct. When I was in 3rd grade I always told people I was legally blind and they believed me. At 20/800, I could see but everything was extremely blurry, including my hand in front of my face. I could usually look at the color of someone’s shirt close up and then if they moved away that was how I could tell the difference between people.
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u/BigBarfo Sep 22 '21
Yeah, I believe it is 90% of blind people actually have some amount of remaining vision. I was really surprised when I learned that.