Recent questions tagged blindness

Description : Do you find it hard to be sympathetic to vocal anti-vaxxers who die of COVID?

Last Answer : I just shrug, now. And I’m angry. I have friends and loved ones who live and work in high anti-vax areas, my concern is for them. If one suicides by endangering others, I don’t mourn their death.

Description : Do blind people have to memorize all surroundings perfectly?

Last Answer : No, they don't have to. Generally, in addition to their memory, they use their senses of hearing and touch, and develop practices of paying attention to those and moving with confirmation from them and/ ... . They can also use the assistance of tools such as canes, or helpers such as trained dogs.

Description : Is it legal for me to don a blindfold downtown?

Last Answer : Well it's legal by itself, but it's not a free pass to you break laws while doing it. If you aren't careful, you might get into some infractions such as jaywalking, disturbing the ... to a doctor immediately. Most blind people have other experiences of becoming blind which involve plenty of help.

Description : How do blind people know where the braille is to be read?

Last Answer : What do you mean you can read braille there? Do you mean things that are on display? Or, they have a section of braille books?

Description : How does a blind person deal with a pesky fly?

Last Answer : Those with guide dogs should train them the way of the chameleon, that of the darting tongue. Dogs are unable to change colour however, as far as i’m aware, can’t have everything.

Description : Why do drive-thru ATM machines have Braille numbers and instructions?

Last Answer : answer:Because it’s easier and cheaper to have one mold to make the buttons for all machines. There may be something about ADA involved, but the reason for the braille on all of them is for ease of production.

Description : Can deaf people who are mentaly ill hear voices? Can blind people hallucinate images?

Last Answer : Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but when one has auditory hallucinations, they are not actually hearing anything through their ears. It's in the mind, so if that person was deaf when they were born ... not the senses. They are only translated in ways that make you think they come from the latter.

Description : How would explain colors to a blind person?

Last Answer : answer:I thought Rocky Dennis did a pretty good job in the movie Mask. Start at 7:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJAxZt7joNE

Description : How do you think you'd deal with sudden blindness?

Last Answer : Hopefully the way my mom did. She was what they call legally blind and had very limited vision. She was a strong woman who handled adversity with dignity and grace.I hope I will be the same.

Description : Does being blind (or deaf, or in any way missing a sense) give insights that the rest of us don't have?

Last Answer : My wife is deaf (and has no sense of smell, either). Her deafness caused her no to learn some of the ways hearing people bullshit others. I have noticed this all over the deaf community. There is a total absence of bullshit among them.

Description : Is there a digital braille?

Last Answer : There are screen readers which do a complex and OS-specific text-to-speech indication of what is on the screen and where. One is called Window Eyes, another is known as JAWS. You may wish to Google their web sites if you are curious about exactly how they work.

Description : Is "an eye for an eye" a reasonable punishment?

Last Answer : I have thought about this all day. I really don’t know, but it seems horrific to me. I keep thinking of that man being strapped down and someone putting acid in his eyes. The person doing it, gee I don’t know.

Description : Boys: What does your masturbation routine include?

Last Answer : Well, I tend to start by unzipping my pants, but to each their own.

Description : What do you think blind people mean when they say they see 'nothing', not even black?

Last Answer : That’s difficult to say, if they are born blind. It’s like asking you what you blarp. Do you blarp something? i don’t, and i don’t know what it even means so i wouldn’t be albe to tell you i’m blarping black… I’m blarping nothing. Hope that explains it…

Description : Why are guide dogs almost always German Shepherds or Yellow Labs?

Last Answer : Noticed the same thing and now I am curious.

Description : Is it true that in 2012 there will be no such thing as blindness?

Last Answer : Sounds like a fantasy