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How do blind people not fall asleep all the time?

DrumSteve · 2013-04-01 00:27:40

I mean, its always dark for them. That is condusive to sleeping right?

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#52 01-04-2013 10:40pm

seamus

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baalthor wrote: »

Look at it this way: have you ever been in a situation where you had to communicate with someone without seeing them (say in a different room or on the phone) or where you could see someone but not hear them (like in a very noisy pub)?
Which was more challenging?

Or which would people prefer ?
A television with no sound or a radio?

I can see this point of course, but I'm probably coming from a POV where I find communication via text better than audio or video. Like when someone posts a video saying, "You have to watch this", I ignore it because I can't sit through five minutes of video when I could read a transcript of it in 30 seconds. Being unable to read things and having to get all of my information from audio would be a special kind of hell for me.

But then that's a relatively new phenomenon, the internet hasn't been around that long, before that deaf people's ability to communicate would have been much more limited.

I also think there would be a significant difference between becoming deaf later in life and being born deaf. I have 30 years experience speaking, as well as interpreting body language and tone. Even if I couldn't hear anymore I should be able to quite accurately guess at the tone by matching it to the speaker's body language, and since I know what words are supposed to look like, I should be able to pick up lip reading pretty quickly.

But I can certainly see how being born deaf would lead to more social isolation than being born blind.

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