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As a blind man this sounds like a load of BS to me! I have bin blind from berth and would have know want or need to invest all this time on something I can not see to enjoy the end product. How would you know which pics arr the rite ones? How can you show them to people when you cant even know what is on the piece of paper you are holding in your hand. If you put a pile of 10 pieces of paper in my hand and marked a line on one piece then I could not pick it out. Blind people can not be photographers. Now if you are telling me that they are low vision then that changes things but fully blind just know! I bet most of the pics are shit any, but know one wants to say. As a blind person you get this all the time. They lie to you and say well dun in a baby voice.

I go to the gym and lift Weights: and people think it is so cool that a blind person can stand in one spot and lift Weights. It pisses me off no end! "O you are so good for what you do!" No mate I am just a blind dude that wants to stay healthy and not get fat. well fatter any way lol.

I mien how hard is it to just lift a Weight bar some of the dumbest people I know are gym rats.

Sorry about my spelling.

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Could you describe into words how your mind works, how imagery is rendered in your mind’s eye and how you perceive the world around you? Also, do you have a mind’s eye like non aphantasiacs do? I suspect not all blind people perceive the world in the same way just like the non blind.

OK here goes. Pleas don't mind the spelling.

I was born with glaucoma and had both my eyes removed when I was 2.5 years old.

I cant remember being able to see, but I can remember wearing verry thick glasses. They made my nose ake.

I cant remember what things look like or cullers.

If someone asked me to think about something like a beach I would think about how it would feel under my hands - feet to be on the sand, the sound of the see and the smell of the see. I would all so think about the feel of wind and sun on my skin. Because you have to be in motion to feel things with your hands I would think about all this as if I was walking a cross it. If I am asked to picture somthing simple like a cup or a plate I will remember what one feels like in my hands. When I have dreams I have ones that have all the other censes in them but no site. I have verry strong emotions in them and some dreams can stick with me for a long time. It's strange as I am not like that in my waking life. I don't think that has anything to do with me being blind though.

O yeah just to add. When people talk about cullers I will think about things that are linked to the culler. Like a banana for yello. this because this is all the word yellow means to me. So when some one says the word yellow I will think about what a banana feels like and the same with orange.

I feel very similarly when I have my eyes closed, I imagine things and objects but I see blackness. Hard to put into words but it’s like I feel it, be it shapes or colors.

How do you like reading very descriptive passages? I have a hard time conjuring up and connecting to a scene that has too many details, but my blind imagination doesn’t fail to feel any gaps for things more open ended.

I imagine there are different perception modes for various blind folks and that there’s a lot of variety in it as well.

Thanks for saying this. Even seeing this title makes me immediately think surely blind people model the world, but they don't visualize it, just like my mental model doesn't involve the way matter interacts with radio.

Heh, I noticed there's no image gallery with the post. As a disabled person myself, this trite puppy-care is really not great.

Edit: I found some. The photos are actually pretty great.

And yes, they are not blind, they are vision impaired. Never understood why people call that blind, seems a bit shitty to people who are actually completely blind.

I'm not a paraplegic just because my knees hurt when I walk.

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