What is the difference between "legally blind" and completely blind?
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A person is considered legally blind when their visual acuity can not be corrected to better than 20/200 or they have 20 degrees or less (tunnel vision) of visual field remaining. Complete blindness means they have no vision at all.
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I think that's a very general question. Did you have a specific disability in mind? A quadriplegic might behave and display different characteristics than that of a blind person, for example. It might be a bit helpful to clarify. :-) Hope this helps.
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The mind's eye sees differents than the eyes you see things with normally. Close your eyes and picture things in your mind. You still "see" in your mind, can't you? The blind person can likewise see in the mind's eye, providing that he wasn't born blind, and have had vision at some point in his life.\nI don't think that a person who has NEVER visualize anything in his life can view things a sighted person can, even in a dream.
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no. \n\nit doesn't make you blind.\n\ninstead, it makes you see wonderful things about your life that have always been there, though you never noticed them.\n\nit doesn't make you deaf.\n\ninstead, it makes you hear many fascinating sounds that you never cared about before.\n\nit doesn't make you mute.\n\ninstead, it makes you creatively express yourself and your emotions more\n\nit doesn't make you brainless.\n\ninstead it renews your brain and feeds your mind.
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It's a condition usually brought on by emotional stress. Blindness occurs suddenly, sometimes accompanied by other physical problems (like partial paralysis). It can be cured with psychotherapy. It's more psychological than physiological. I think it's you mind's way of telling you "take care of me or your body won't work." And we all know it's mind over matter..
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A good starting place is the American Federation for the Blind.  You can also try National Indistries for the Blind.  Links are below ...
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maybe they also dream but not as what we experience. this is my theory about this, a person dreams of some things that maybe they experienced or things they imagined. as a blind, they don't know what the physical things look like but they can feel, they can hear and they can smell. their dreams are full of hearing, smelling, and feeling but no sight at all...
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Hmmm, that's interesting. Are blind people driving now? I dunno... Maybe so blind passenger's can understand banking mumbo jumbo too! Haha :)
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Tricky one, personally I'd say deaf because I just find some sights so amazing, so breath-taking, that I'd rather see them and not hear them if I had to make that choice.  You've always got your other senses, so to smell something might be almost as good as hearing it, as well as touching, etc.  It would be annoying though coz people could speak up on you, I guess that goes for either really.  Also, you wouldn't have much trouble sleeping if you could see but not hear, the other way round could be really frustrating.  \n\nUm, as for the second question, I think it depends which sense you lose.  If I lost my sight, I'd be devastated to no longer be able to see what I hold dear and it would grieve me to be unable to watch people grow, things change.  If I had been blind from birth I mightn't miss it so much.  With deafness though, at least if you had had some experience you'd know what things were supposed to sound like and could perhaps substitute certain sounds in your head.  \n\nBizarre, what a good question - very thought provoking (and a time waster, I'm supposed to be working!!!)\n\nBefore anyone says it, I meant no offence to anyone who is already deaf or blind.
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This has been done. As pine stripe notes it depends on when they were blinded. People blinded after about 5 years of age have no problems. People blinded before that have difficulty re-adjusting.\n\nPeople blind from birth are really quite interesting when their site is restored. They never have any ability to judge perspective. They can recognise small cubes up close for example, but they see cubic buildings and truncated pyramids. That's because a building looks like it gets smaller at the top due to perspective. A person blind from birth can never learn to recognise that that is just an illusion. they literally see the building with a small top and large base. They also see railway tracts as converging lines and are fooled by similar tricks of perspective that sighted people automatically adjust for.\n\nWeird stuff.
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Actually, the phrase is not literally referring to the eyes.  The phrase "justice is blind"  refers to the idea that judges and juries should look only at the evidence presented in court when making their decisions.  The term "blind" is a reference to the ideal of those making decisions ignoring what they know about the defendants reputation, personal history, local gossip, news articles, appearance, personal relationship to the judge and/or individual jury members, etc.  \n\nIt dates back to when most people lived in small towns where everyone knew everybody else.  When juries were selected the defendant might often have neighbors, friends, or even relatives who were serving on the Jury.  Even the judge might have been related to the defendant in some way at that time.
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You could just ask them like you would ask anything else.For ex: What is your eye perscription?People have asked me this before and I have never been offended.I know that I'am legally blind with out contacts or glasses.People I realize are just curious,If you are trying to tell someone what your eye perscription is you would say ex:20/40 That means what most people can see at 20 ft, you think is 40ft away causing it to be out of focus and so on.Once you get passed a certian number they don't really use those terms .They just tell you you're legally blind w/o contacts or glasses.  You have exstremely bad eye sight  and can't drive or work or do much of anything without these.Hope this helps you:)
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My boyfriend who is blind in one eye says he does not gain the ability to see out of both eyes when he dreams. He thinks this is because he was born that way. He suggests that if a blind person was once sighted they will probably see in their dreams. However, if they were like him and born that way, they would not. He once explained it to me that seeing out of that one eye is as foreign to him as me seeing out of my finger.
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For the blind drivers. Duh. lol
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Nearsighted people can't see things that are far away.\nFarsighted people can't see things that are near.\nKind of confusing, but there you go.
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Standardization of the keypad.\n\nA blind person can walk up to the ATM to use it, or be riding in a car with someone.
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A number of states allow legally blind persons to get drivers licenses. Depending on eye conditions, a person may not be able to focus close up, requiring braille for reading and writing, but be able to function fairly well for distance.