Way auesome video, thanks again... a more detailed explaination to someone who is sighted, to help them understand about visual impairment or blindness...is that we are not able to read body language and ques that most peole do without even realizing that they are. It is the whole eye contact thing, where just because i am not looking right at you, doesn't mean that i am not engaged in our conversation, type of thing. I used to feel very awkward growing up legally blind, until I realized that I was unable to catch the parts of communication that is visual. It helped me explain to people later when things seemed awkward.
When I ride my golf cart in my neighborhood I can listen out for a vehicle to be cranked up and knowing if it is backing out or not I can listen to know what is going on around me
Hi. I'm fully sighted. I've never met a blind or visually impaired person. Your explanation of the most common myths is very clear, brief, to the point and informative. I hope that if one day I meet a visually impaired person, I won't be as annoying to them as a regular sighted person hahaha
I'm deaf-blind, but I can hear with hearing aids some what 40-50 %, than tunnel vision...all the poeple think I'm a poor guy with that disability. NO, I'm fine, I know a lot deaf poeple, so I know hearing people, hearing blind people, deaf-blind people.
Okay just funny thing that happened on Friday at school: my teacher was introducing us to our Independent Novel Study project. She showed us one, and asked what everyone noticed about it. People answered with things like “Oh, there’s red on it” and “Oh, there’s black on it” and stuff like that. Then we got to this second one. No one, and I mean NO ONE said anything. Then my teacher went, “Guys. Come on. You all have eyes. You can tell me what’s on this poster.” and I’m just in my seat, luckily facing away from my teacher and i]my face was just screwed up trying not to laugh, because I’m legally blind and in that moment, I just thought, “hmmm…maybe but mine don’t really work too well…” Then there was this other time where this same teacher was just kinda letting us know that if we play games during class, she sees, but just doesn’t say anything. It’s a direct email home. She said, “And guys, if you’re playing games, just because I don’t say anything, does not mean I don’t see it. I’m not blind, I just stay silent.” Now a lot of people might think “Oh how insensitive there’s a kid in this room who’s partially blind”, but I actually appreciate it when people aren’t afraid to use the word blind in front of me. I love how bluntly she said it, and again, I was just trying not to burst out laughing. This teacher is my Grade 8 homeroom teacher. She was also my Media Literacy teacher last year in Grade 7, and the year before that, in Grade 6, she was my homeroom teacher, so she knows me and I know and trust her, so if she says something like that, I don’t get offended. I just know that’s how she is. And even if someone else said it, I would still be trying not to laugh.
Way auesome video, thanks again...
a more detailed explaination to someone who is sighted, to help them understand about visual impairment or blindness...is that we are not able to read body language and ques that most peole do without even realizing that they are. It is the whole eye contact thing, where just because i am not looking right at you, doesn't mean that i am not engaged in our conversation, type of thing.
I used to feel very awkward growing up legally blind, until I realized that I was unable to catch the parts of communication that is visual. It helped me explain to people later when things seemed awkward.
When I ride my golf cart in my neighborhood I can listen out for a vehicle to be cranked up and knowing if it is backing out or not I can listen to know what is going on around me
Hi. I'm fully sighted. I've never met a blind or visually impaired person. Your explanation of the most common myths is very clear, brief, to the point and informative. I hope that if one day I meet a visually impaired person, I won't be as annoying to them as a regular sighted person hahaha
Exactly so true thanks I'm legally blind in people always ask me a thousand questions the 3 one is so true they don't no the difference
awesome!
I'm deaf-blind, but I can hear with hearing aids some what 40-50 %, than tunnel vision...all the poeple think I'm a poor guy with that disability. NO, I'm fine, I know a lot deaf poeple, so I know hearing people, hearing blind people, deaf-blind people.
Okay just funny thing that happened on Friday at school: my teacher was introducing us to our Independent Novel Study project. She showed us one, and asked what everyone noticed about it. People answered with things like “Oh, there’s red on it” and “Oh, there’s black on it” and stuff like that. Then we got to this second one. No one, and I mean NO ONE said anything. Then my teacher went, “Guys. Come on. You all have eyes. You can tell me what’s on this poster.” and I’m just in my seat, luckily facing away from my teacher and i]my face was just screwed up trying not to laugh, because I’m legally blind and in that moment, I just thought, “hmmm…maybe but mine don’t really work too well…”
Then there was this other time where this same teacher was just kinda letting us know that if we play games during class, she sees, but just doesn’t say anything. It’s a direct email home. She said, “And guys, if you’re playing games, just because I don’t say anything, does not mean I don’t see it. I’m not blind, I just stay silent.” Now a lot of people might think “Oh how insensitive there’s a kid in this room who’s partially blind”, but I actually appreciate it when people aren’t afraid to use the word blind in front of me. I love how bluntly she said it, and again, I was just trying not to burst out laughing. This teacher is my Grade 8 homeroom teacher. She was also my Media Literacy teacher last year in Grade 7, and the year before that, in Grade 6, she was my homeroom teacher, so she knows me and I know and trust her, so if she says something like that, I don’t get offended. I just know that’s how she is. And even if someone else said it, I would still be trying not to laugh.
The other day I went to a movie theatre the screen is huge I was asked if I could see the movie. 😂