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Blind People
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Anyone know anyone that is Blind? If so what things in everyday life do they have problems with most?
I'm particularly interested in people who are termed legally blind, i.e. they can see something, maybe light and dark, blurred vision, etc
I had to help this young chap in the London Underground and took him as far as I was going and the rest he said he'd manage on his own, I couldn't imagaine how he finds his way around day to day when going to a new place - he was partially blind.
I'm sure these days we have the technology to provide them with a lot more then a white stick - which is all he had.
I'm particularly interested in people who are termed legally blind, i.e. they can see something, maybe light and dark, blurred vision, etc
I had to help this young chap in the London Underground and took him as far as I was going and the rest he said he'd manage on his own, I couldn't imagaine how he finds his way around day to day when going to a new place - he was partially blind.
I'm sure these days we have the technology to provide them with a lot more then a white stick - which is all he had.
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Poor chap though - must be tough being blind.
He actually came to a meeting I went to - no one knew he was coming - it was the first time we'd met him - and he made it there OK - cos it was daytime and he could see light and dark - but on the way back it was dark and then he couldn't see much at all.
this looks interesting though
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/closeup/gps.shtml
There's acentre back home called the Cunliffe where adults with various disabilities go to do arts and crafts. I think theyalso put on plays in school to make kids more aware.
I don't know anyone really blind, but I do know someone whose one eye is blind.
Being blind must be so horrible, I can't even begin to imagine it.
I love it how people can translate things aswell when I say something to them they ask the person it in their own language. I stand there just watching and find it amazing.
Went to school with a deaf girl too. But she was a stuck up bitch. Thought she was better than everybody else, so I never associated with her.