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Blind people since birth, what comes to your mind when hear about colours, facial expressions, beauty, ugly, art and so on ? (self.Blind)
submitted by JohnnyBeGoodTonight
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sorgan71 1 points 3y ago
Because blind lives are interesting. To a seeing person, life would be imposssible yet blind people can live normal lives. Its cool to hear about.
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sorgan71 1 points 3y ago
Because everybody is interested. Im sure its just normal life for blind people but for seeing people its really interesting. Seeing people have a lot of questions.
oncenightvaler 1 points 3y ago
Ok let's take the things you listed and I will do my best to write what I know.
Colours: I know light and dark but beyond that I still think that colours are a mystery. I have heard the best analogy is colours described as textures, so I often try and place them on that sort of a scale with darker colours being rougher textures to my mind. If you asked me a colour I could tell you where it fits into the rainbow, or I could try to think up literary associations, but that's about it.
Art: I have a few tactile pieces of art, including an abstract painting done in the puffy paint with really pronounced lines and swirls. I once went to the Louvre museum in Paris, and they have a room specifically designed for the blind where they have miniatures of sculptures so instead of just being able to feel the lower portion you can get a better idea of what the material of the sculpture is and what it represents. I know a little of art history and movements, (and since I am Canadian I have heard of the group of 7 famous Canadian painters) but I cannot say I have a favourite piece of art (whereas I can say I have favourite songs, favourite plays and movies, favourite novels and poems)
Beauty and Ugliness: A proverb I heard said to me by a few of my wise adult mentours is that since I am blind I don't have to concern myself with peoples outward appearance and can judge them all on their personality. Therefore I paint the people I strongly dislike as ugly, the people who I love as beautiful and most of the world as nice. Everyone is beautiful until proven otherwise. I know that there is also such a thing as sexual beauty, though not having been in many relationships and none of them very physical I have yet to make up my mind on what my standards are there, yet as above I think that personality clicking and meshing with mine will come before any beauty considerations.
Colours: I know light and dark but beyond that I still think that colours are a mystery. I have heard the best analogy is colours described as textures, so I often try and place them on that sort of a scale with darker colours being rougher textures to my mind. If you asked me a colour I could tell you where it fits into the rainbow, or I could try to think up literary associations, but that's about it.
Art: I have a few tactile pieces of art, including an abstract painting done in the puffy paint with really pronounced lines and swirls. I once went to the Louvre museum in Paris, and they have a room specifically designed for the blind where they have miniatures of sculptures so instead of just being able to feel the lower portion you can get a better idea of what the material of the sculpture is and what it represents. I know a little of art history and movements, (and since I am Canadian I have heard of the group of 7 famous Canadian painters) but I cannot say I have a favourite piece of art (whereas I can say I have favourite songs, favourite plays and movies, favourite novels and poems)
Beauty and Ugliness: A proverb I heard said to me by a few of my wise adult mentours is that since I am blind I don't have to concern myself with peoples outward appearance and can judge them all on their personality. Therefore I paint the people I strongly dislike as ugly, the people who I love as beautiful and most of the world as nice. Everyone is beautiful until proven otherwise. I know that there is also such a thing as sexual beauty, though not having been in many relationships and none of them very physical I have yet to make up my mind on what my standards are there, yet as above I think that personality clicking and meshing with mine will come before any beauty considerations.
JohnnyBeGoodTonight [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thank you so much for your time and response. Your answers created more questions in my mind about dating, and shapes. What annoys you on dates, what you wish people should do. How do you imagine a sphere, rectangle or cube ? But if you don’t wish to answer, it’s cool.
oncenightvaler 1 points 3y ago
shapes: I know well what shapes are because I took the same mathematics classes that you did. I played a lot with blocks and Legos as a kid, I know that most buildings are cubes and prisms, made of bricks and glass panes and steel.
Dates: Most of the dates I've gone on I had been responsible for arranging. I love going to restaurants especially when I can find the menu online (which is a good 70% of the time) I like going to movies (where there's a system called described captioning look it up if you had not heard of it), I love anything interactive like concerts, plays, karaoke, etc. when I was younger I used to go bowling or mini golfing with friends and I even played Laser tag because my brother liked it but that one was too confusing for me. )
Dates: Most of the dates I've gone on I had been responsible for arranging. I love going to restaurants especially when I can find the menu online (which is a good 70% of the time) I like going to movies (where there's a system called described captioning look it up if you had not heard of it), I love anything interactive like concerts, plays, karaoke, etc. when I was younger I used to go bowling or mini golfing with friends and I even played Laser tag because my brother liked it but that one was too confusing for me. )
JohnnyBeGoodTonight [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Haha I know how it feels to be a brother’s sidekick. Appreciate the details.
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