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There is this Blind girl in my class

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Edgewardb

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Everyday when I get out of second period, I always see her walking with a cane.
She manage to get to her class without any help and she hardly bump into anyone. Her cane doesn't even strike people as she is walking. (Crowd Campus) I am impress on whether she is sensing or is she just a natural.

How is she blind and is walking like a normal person.

Please do not make fun or joke around please.
 
i work with a blind guy, he learns by having someone take him on the path several times until he memorizes it
so when we moved to a new office building, i would lead him to the restrooms and the break area etc so that he can get used to the route and memorize it

and when he is walking, he pays attention and listens. he can usually recognize a person by the sounds they make, often before they speak
 
Heightened auditory senses. Sort of like a snake using heat perception to locate prey, only with sound. Also she's probably very experienced.

How about asking her about it? I'm sure she won't mind, as long as you don't completely make an ass of yourself.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Heightened auditory senses. Sort of like a snake using heat perception to locate prey, only with sound. Also she's probably very experienced.

How about asking her about it? I'm sure she won't mind, as long as you don't completely make an ass of yourself.
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this is what i believe as well

is it true that when one of your senses go out the other get stronger?
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Heightened auditory senses. Sort of like a snake using heat perception to locate prey, only with sound. Also she's probably very experienced.

How about asking her about it? I'm sure she won't mind, as long as you don't completely make an ass of yourself.
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Well I don't know English that well.
 
i believe everyone has a sense of echolocation, but blind people are especially honed in on it.
 
is she 100% 'can't see any light' blind? or merely legally blind, and needs the assistance of a cane but can make out blurry images?
i had a girl in my class in high school that was legally blind, but walked to and from class fine and walked home on her own. with special, super large-letter notes (i mean, large), and her super high magnification glasses, she could make them out. but even with those insane glasses, she probably couldn't see anything further than maybe 6 inches in front of her face. had a little magnifier she used in place of her glasses when reading notes, and it was only the magnifier that was in between her and the notebook or piece of paper she was looking over.

but yea, after awhile, some become naturally gifted and are able to navigate the world and live decently, even though they may be 100% blind.
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
is she 100% 'can't see any light' blind? or merely legally blind, and needs the assistance of a cane but can make out blurry images?
i had a girl in my class in high school that was legally blind, but walked to and from class fine and walked home on her own. with special, super large-letter notes (i mean, large), and her super high magnification glasses, she could make them out. but even with those insane glasses, she probably couldn't see anything further than maybe 6 inches in front of her face. had a little magnifier she used in place of her glasses when reading notes, and it was only the magnifier that was in between her and the notebook or piece of paper she was looking over.

but yea, after awhile, some become naturally gifted and are able to navigate the world and live decently, even though they may be 100% blind.
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I don't know but
 
I sometimes wonder what it's like to be blind. Not just the "well , you can't see" part, but like when I imagine the hallway that leads to a class I see that visual memory of the hallway in my mind, but what does a blind person "see"? It's some combination of tactile, auditory, and olfactory sense memory certainly, but I could even begin to actually remember a place on just those terms. The way a blind person's mind and memories work would have to be radically different than that of a person who can see.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsei
why would people make fun or joke around?
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...you'd be surprised. had the Op not mentioned this in his post, prolly enough jokes krakin' to make you wanna play StarKrak all night and not be on a forum.

practice makes perfect, what else do you want to know?

prodigy.
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
I sometimes wonder what it's like to be blind. Not just the "well , you can't see" part, but like when I imagine the hallway that leads to a class I see that visual memory of the hallway in my mind, but what does a blind person "see"? It's some combination of tactile, auditory, and olfactory sense memory certainly, but I could even begin to actually remember a place on just those terms. The way a blind person's mind and memories work would have to be radically different than that of a person who can see.
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Depends on whether or not they were born blind, or at what age they went blind.

I often wonder what a born-blind person dreams about.
 
Originally posted by: Edgewardb
I wonder if also their photographic memory would start to develop.
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the guy i work with has a great memory
if you tell me a phone number , i write it down or put it into my cell phone, if you tell him a phone number, he remembers it
 
Mostly it's training and practice. Before classes start blind students have to learn the route to where they want to go, what sidewalks go where, which turns to make, etc. A heightened sense of hearing can stop you from running in to someone or something if you're really paying attention, but you won't be weaving through crowds or anything like that.
 
slith, I don't know what your problem is but by the quotes you are using against me, you think I am making fun of her don't you?

What I meant by photographic memory was a serious question.

Blind people can sense and remember visual pattern or heat right? Wouldn't that be consider photographic memory?
 
Originally posted by: Edgewardb
slith, I don't know what your problem is but by the quotes you are using against me, you think I am making fun of her don't you?

What I meant by photographic memory was a serious question.

Blind people can sense and remember visual pattern or heat right? Wouldn't that be consider photographic memory?
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Ok I'll give you that one. If I'm wrong then no offense intended.

I've never heard that blind people can sense heat in any way approximating vision, and that's certainly not photographic memory in any case.

Eidetic memory, photographic memory, or total recall is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with extreme accuracy and in seemingly abundant volume.
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photographic memory

 
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