Nothing. Blindness is the absence of sight. There is no darkness, or shadow, or whatever you come up with in an attempt to understand how a blind person “sees”. There’s just nothing. When you close your eyes, you can still perceive light and shadow which […]
Category: Mending misconceptions
Mending Misconceptions #3: Do Blind People have/use EchoLocation?
This was originally posted on December 3, 2016, at 8:00 PM on Blogger. *** Last week, I was hanging out with one of my friends, ostensibly doing homework. But every now and then I’d check on his progress, and he’d have gotten distracted by social […]
Mending Misconceptions #2: Do Blind People Count Their Steps?
One day during some point in my high school career, I was walking to the Vision Resource room (the place where vision and mobility teachers work). As I walked down the hall, a group of boys were standing in front of the door so I […]
Mending Misconceptions#1: extrasensory senses
This was originally posted on March 1, 2016 at 7:19 PM on Blogger *** First, I’d like to say that I did not forget to upload on Saturday night. I actually had most of the post written, but I’ve been having computer and wifi trouble […]