Programme on Monday (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=181948)
If anyone knows anyone who is blind, check this link.
I used to live with someone who was blind, and through links with people, I met a few blind people.
I've brought this up in here to advertise a thread in a less popular section of the forum. But I am interested to know anyone who knows anyone who is completely blind.
Personally, I would consider it the worst sense to lose.
Any thoughts?
happyhippy
29-01-2007, 02:32
Programme on Monday (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=181948)
If anyone knows anyone who is blind, check this link.
I used to live with someone who was blind, and through links with people, I met a few blind people.
I've brought this up in here to advertise a thread in a less popular section of the forum. But I am interested to know anyone who knows anyone who is completely blind.
Personally, I would consider it the worst sense to lose.
Any thoughts?
I know lots of people who are totally blind, and/or deaf, or both, and it's amazing how the mind can compensate for a huge loss of one sense.
Personally, I'd say the worst for me to lose would be hearing, but being lucky enough to still have all my senses, losing any would be terrible.
One of my best friends has congenital glaucoma, and lost the sight in one eye years ago, and the other continues to degenerate.
That for me is even worse. The inevitability that it will happen, and there's precious little you can do about it.
One of my best friends has congenital glaucoma, and lost the sight in one eye years ago, and the other continues to degenerate.
That for me is even worse. The inevitability that it will happen, and there's precious little you can do about it.
The person I used to live with could see, and lost his sight when he was in 30's I think, I'm not sure if same condition, I never asked, no reason to, to be honest.
I know that a few people blind from birth had certainly less sympathy, which begs the question, is it better to be born blind, or be able to see, then go blind at a later time?
Just guessing, but I think my mum would would tell you that it's better to have had it and lost it than not to have had it at all. She lost her sight at twenty-one. Copes brilliantly (and several other cliches), but there's not a day goes by when she doesn't miss it.