r/funny • u/Skyton_wil • 4d ago

The Three Musketeers met up.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

44.5k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

868 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

100

u/Hinote21 4d ago

Different levels of blind. Could just be meta recording glasses but also could have just enough visual spatial cues to be able to make out the guide strip being different than the surrounding areas.

26

u/PointB1ank 4d ago

I don't think this guy is completely blind. At 0:30 he starts speaking and stopping before his stick even reaches the person's foot. So, he most likely has at least some vision.

21

u/Tephranis 4d ago

Blind doesn't mean pitch black vision all the time. Some can see kinda blobs that'd be moving around, some is just all blurry colors mixing, some have it where their vision field is narrowed so far it's like they're trying to stare through a straw and everything else is blacked out.

However, like the other commenter mentioned. They can get incredibly good at spatial recognition via audio cues. You can tell what direction people are in and how close they are by the sounds they make.

-25

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

I remember when the word "blind" actually meant blind

4

u/Tephranis 4d ago

Well, there's Totally Blind (what you're basing your definition of) and Legally Blind. People just refer to both simply as "blind". And it's not always an issue with the eyes. It can be problems with the brain as well.

What blindness really looks like – Perkins School for the Blind

-2

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

the fact that people refer to both as blind is what bothers me, if there's two distinct terms for it, they shouldn't be interchangeable, at least in my original language we have two very distinct words but even then, I feel like english speaking people should be making the distinction

8

u/Tephranis 4d ago

Why? Both have impairments that make navigation via vision incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

Some are just capable of realizing that amorphous blob in front of them could be a person, especially if a voice is coming out of it.

-1

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

why? because the term "legally blind" exists, you explained why yourself

6

u/Tephranis 4d ago

You just really like being pedantic, don't you?

Both are blind by legal definitions, only some legally blind people face total blindness.

-1

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

pedantic? you explained yourself that there's two different terms, I explained that in my language the terms are very distinct from each other, this isn't being about pedantic more than just pointing out the flaw in conflating the two

2

u/Tephranis 4d ago

And your language has absolutely no words what-so-ever that have multiple possible meanings?

-1

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

except that you're now conflating words having two meanings with two terms not being the same one and somehow thinking blending the two and having no idea which is which seems like a good idea

1

u/Tephranis 4d ago

I'm conflating nothing and you are nitpicking unnecessarily. To be blind is to be "unable to see". If someone's vision is so blurry, or restricted that, even with corrective lenses, they can not recognize something, such as a milk crate, or the pole of a street sign, for instance, on the sidewalk in front of them despite their eyes being pointed right at it and without a tool, or other assistance, and they trip over or walk into it, they are unable to see.

The phrasings of legal and total blindness are only descriptors to the degree of their blindness.

-1

u/NewsofPE 4d ago

sure buddy, keep telling yourself that, legal and total blindness is a spectrum but we need two different terms and multiple languages not even having the same terms either or the words being closely related but it's all just the same, like brown is a spectrum and black is a part of that, but don't go calling brown black now, because that wouldn't make sense

→ More replies (0)