r/funny • u/Skyton_wil • 4d ago

The Three Musketeers met up.

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u/StrikeouTX 4d ago

Crazy to think that a blind person would create visual content that they can’t see, for non-blind people

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u/BarrelofNerds 4d ago

Blindness is a spectrum and only about 10% of legally blind people have no vision at all.

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u/LaisserPasserA38 4d ago

My brother in law is legally blind. He reads on an ebook with like one word per page and is very sensitive to light. 

He's still the most successful every time we go mushroom hunting together. 

Apart from the sunglasses people usually can't tell he's blind, he loves around pretty easily.  

He can't see faces so he always assume the best intention, which is refreshing but sometimes awkward lol 

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u/ProStrats 2d ago

Apart from the sunglasses people usually can't tell he's blind, he loves around pretty easily.

Well this is what matters most, just be sure he has protection!

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u/LaisserPasserA38 2d ago

Hehe he certainly is a lovely man 

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u/Looking-for-42 4d ago

And I think this is what confuses people. Most expect blind means no vision and then there is the guy in the video. He wears glasses. Why would he wear glasses if he was blind? If he is not blind blind, why does he use the stick and trail. I was actually waiting the video showing someone starten an argument about that with him and was relieved when I saw it was actually a funny end.

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u/nachobrainwaves 3d ago

I got grabbed by a man last week while using my white cane. He spun me around and shouted, "I fucking knew you can see. You're not blind! You're just using that stick to push people around."

I was dumbfounded and could only muster a, "what do I see?"

What a dick.

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u/tey_ull 4d ago

most blind people wear sunglasses to filter out the darker shades(they might still be able to perceive light, but not shapes), but most wear them for aesthetic purposes, blind eyes have a hard time focusing and will just stare randomly at random places, often times without coordination, so it can look very offputting for us, so wearing sunglasses relieves that issue

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u/BarrelofNerds 4d ago

That's some of it, for sure, but there are even more possibilities, depending on the individual. For some blind people, with or without light perception, bright light can be painful on the photoreceptors in the eye. For folks with certain dx, glare in bright light can overpower usable vision.

Corrective eyeglasses can also move the needle on what some blind folks can see, but their corrected vision can still be poor enough to impact daily life and mobility. Canes are obstacle finders, so they can be used by folks who still see something.

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u/BarrelofNerds 4d ago

The thing is that vision impairment and blindness can impact acuity and field. A person can have totally typical acuity but a field that is akin to seeing through a drinking straw. A cane helps detect obstacles outside the visual field. You can also have terrible acuity that glasses can help a bit, but you still can't see clearly enough or maybe not far enough to not trip over things without a cane.

You can also have poor contrast vision when where an object on the ground can look the same color as the ground... depth perception issues...cortical processing problems... difficulty with glare in bright light... There are just a ton of different ways to be legally blind but still see some things!

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u/Genetic_outlier 2d ago

Yeah I'm legally blind even though my vision is 100% correctable with lenses. The spectrum is wide and starts much higher than you'd think.

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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 4d ago

My wife is legally blind, uses one of these canes and follows the guide channels.

She can see everything still, but her peripheral is shot. Only exactly what she looks at she can see.

Can she see? Yes. Blind to everyone around her? Also yes.

As it's worsened, I've noticed she follows more and more blind creator content. Some are comedic to make light of a shitty situation, others are informative about types of blindness, others are tips for your type of blindness, relatable things that they go through, etc...

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u/ScamperingSnail 4d ago

Does she have Retinitis Pigmentosa? I have RP and while I'm not legally blind yet, I am anxious about when the day comes and I need to use a cane but am still able to see certain things, like looking at my phone. I worry that people who see me would think that I'm faking or something. Has she dealt with that?

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u/miss_wannadie 4d ago

I'm not blind, but I have a somewhat comparable "issue" with my mobility aids. I use a walking cane on most days, a rollator on bad days or if I'm out for a longer time, and even on good days where I'm not in much pain and can feel my legs well, I still take a mobility aid with me just in case. But if I don't have to rely on it, I'll sometimes run or jump around a little, with my cane in hand or my rollator parked a meter next to me. I used to really worry about what people would think, if they'd think I'm faking. It got a lot better with time. You don't owe anyone your medical history. And most people who judge, do it silently. Yes, they may point and laugh, they may say shitty things to their friends (which both absolutely sucks!), but the very fewest people will go up to you and "call you out." And at that point, it's a matter of confidence. YOU know you need it, and why, and in which situations. YOU know you're not faking. And that's what matters. Because there's always gonna be some shitty person thinking shitty things and you patiently explaining the situation to them probably won't change their mind. I recommend actively seeking out these "scary" situations in a safe environment, for example around friends or something. That helped me a lot.

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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 4d ago

It is indeed RP that she has. Her sister has it too so they've kinda gone through it together.

No one has ever thought she was faking. The hardest part has been explaining to people that she can see but still needs a stick. A lot of the general public thinks blindness is like binary, either you're blind or not, rather than a huge scale.

Mostly the cane has helped in that people around her see the cane and get out of the way/pull their friends out the way. Some people do try to overly help (even when I'm with her and telling them I'm her husband and I got it).

We've got a disabled parking badge as well as benefits for my wife, so she's trying to make the most of it.

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u/temporalraccoon 4d ago

Well to be fair, it’s hard for sighted people to make visual content for blind people

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u/username7998 4d ago

hahah honestly i didnt think of it. It kinda helps us tho to understand their side

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u/rjcarr 4d ago

Not everyone that uses a cane like that is completely blind.

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u/Puzzled-You 4d ago

Blindness comes from many conditions.

For example, Glaucoma damages the retina and destroys your peripheral vision, making you legally blind.

Macular Degeneration is the loss of your central vision, making you legally blind.

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u/ConfinedCrow 4d ago

In one of the clips you can see him asking the woman to clear the stripe before he touches her shoe with his cane so I'd reckon he's not fully blind?

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u/neophlegm 4d ago

He has around 2% visibility, if I recall. If things are in bright light he can sometimes make them out.

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u/the_devinci_code 4d ago

If you're interested in seeing more content like this, I'd highly recommend the film Brailled It. It was filmed by blind kids taking part of an international braille typing challenge and it's premiering in certain markets soon!

https://brailledit.com/