Bring your karma
Join the waitlist today
HUMBLECAT.ORG

Blind and Visually Impaired Community

Full History - 2018 - 07 - 14 - ID#8yr88g
6
Arnaud Lenglet: "Three Things I Learned from My One Week Blind Experience" | Talks at Google (youtube.com)
submitted by antdude
FrankenGretchen 18 points 5y ago
Ha! Nobody's going near this one, huh? How bout a summary, then?

Sighted dude has a mishap jaywalking and nearly gets mashed. He also has a friend who fell into the gap on a subway platform. He decides blind people must have way more trouble with these since they can't actually see them as opposed to himself and his friend who simply weren't paying attention. Since he has no idea O&M exists but works with disabled veterans who get all kinds of help with accessibility supports, he decides he can transfer what he knows about that to blind folks and make everything so much easier for us. He spends a week learning Blind through complete immersion before venturing into designs for his expanded service plan so he can truly get a sense of what blind folks need. In this video, he describes his idea of the three most profound discoveries he had as a 7 day blind person.

I didn't get past 6:31 where he's describing how he comes across a surprise tree in the sidewalk that has birds in it that his listeners only notice after suspecting it's a tree. He reads a script for this which tells us way more about how he thinks we process information than how we actually do. How many of us first notice birds when we're just under their nests, for example? He doesn't strike me as very bright. Maybe it's that he thinks we aren't? I stopped there. Admittedly I don't have much patience for this sort of misinformed ego-driven-by-good-intentions superhero stuff.

Watch at your own aggravation.

TL:DR. Another well intentioned clueless dude with plans to save the sightless world.

Edit: one freaking letter....and still so much annoyance
Drunken_Idaho 7 points 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. Well said. This kinda shit is super irritating.
FrankenGretchen 6 points 5y ago
Definitely!
intrepidia 7 points 5y ago
I bailed after he infers that the birds must be sitting in the branches of that tree. My shoulders hurt from all the cringe.
FrankenGretchen 4 points 5y ago
The birds were really at the Starbucks across the street snagging free poppy seed scones. Eyerolls. Many, many eyerolls.
cae_jones 4 points 5y ago
Oh, hey, I stopped at the same point as you.
This nonprofit website is run by volunteers.
Please contribute if you can. Thank you!
Our mission is to provide everyone with access to large-
scale community websites for the good of humanity.
Without ads, without tracking, without greed.
©2023 HumbleCat Inc   •   HumbleCat is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Michigan, USA.