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The book There Plant Eyes by M. Leona Godin (self.Blind)
submitted by Skriet
Have any of you read this book? I thought it was really good and gave me a deeper understanding about our collective blind history.
"Until we recognize that being "made to see" is not the same as being a sight-oriented person, or that being a sighted person in the dark is not the same as blindness, we will never, as a culture, be able to say anything intelligent about blindness as a perceptual experience that is as full of variety as sightedness. We must learn to translate the blind experience into language with as much effort, as much intellectual rigor, as we invest when we attempt to translate what we see into language. Blindness lies outside the experience of most sighted people precisely because it is not the same thing to open one's eyes as it is to be made suddenly and irrevocably sighted."
"Until we recognize that being "made to see" is not the same as being a sight-oriented person, or that being a sighted person in the dark is not the same as blindness, we will never, as a culture, be able to say anything intelligent about blindness as a perceptual experience that is as full of variety as sightedness. We must learn to translate the blind experience into language with as much effort, as much intellectual rigor, as we invest when we attempt to translate what we see into language. Blindness lies outside the experience of most sighted people precisely because it is not the same thing to open one's eyes as it is to be made suddenly and irrevocably sighted."
ColonelKepler 3 points 11m ago
I just read it this May, and quite enjoyed it. I'm glad we have writers like her in our community, and hope they'll encourage more and more of us to create works in the same vain.
Rethunker 3 points 11m ago
I read a goodly chunk of There Plant Eyes, and found it very good, but I didn’t finish before returning it to the library. I intend to buy a copy in the near future because there’s a lot to take in.
At least the last I remember I hadn’t bought it yet. Maybe I’ll find out next time I go through my books.
Godin’s book holds up well against classics in the field, which suggests to me it will be one of the classic memoirs.
At least the last I remember I hadn’t bought it yet. Maybe I’ll find out next time I go through my books.
Godin’s book holds up well against classics in the field, which suggests to me it will be one of the classic memoirs.
LyingSlider7 1 points 11m ago
never heard of this book sounds interesting also why is there an nsfw tag?
Skriet [OP] 1 points 11m ago
No idea, hopefully gone now
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