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Do blind people understand perspective? (self.Blind)
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thatawkwardcosplayer 1 points 1y ago
I only have 10% vision left roughly and I absolutely FAIL at grabbing water bottles off counters, judging curb height w/o a cane and once even fell into my parents pool because I thought it was further away.
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TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
No thats a bit of a foreign concept if you’ve been totally blind from birth but most sight concepts are. Imagine like not ever having a sense that’s what it is like. They can imagine something further away but they are missing the visualizations of it. I know it is suppose to be smaller and different but that just doesn’t make much sense.
I wasn’t completely blind from birth myself, I remember a few things but my vision was so poor that I don’t even have any conceptions of this. I had no depth perception at all.
I’ve known of this concept only as a philosophical concept or construct and that’s about what it feels like. Probably really strange to you, but that’s what depth perception sounds like to me, a foreign language. It’s pretty fascinating but not graspable.
I wasn’t completely blind from birth myself, I remember a few things but my vision was so poor that I don’t even have any conceptions of this. I had no depth perception at all.
I’ve known of this concept only as a philosophical concept or construct and that’s about what it feels like. Probably really strange to you, but that’s what depth perception sounds like to me, a foreign language. It’s pretty fascinating but not graspable.
OwnsAFishingLicense [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thank you for your answer. The reason I was thinking about this is that the concepts of "further" and "size" are familiar to you. I suppose I wondered if you thought it is strange that we sense objects further away as smaller since it is not related to the actual size of an object.
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
Yes it is a bit strange because we feel the object and then we can place it further. But when you go over it’s still the same size. Or you would think it’s just over there. The concepts of vision is just weird it’s a trained learnt sense that we don’t actually understand and get at least those who went blind at a really young age and didn’t see anything much or went totally blind. My vision was that bad.
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