Leo Laporte
I was listening to him yesterday in the car and a guy called in that
said he was blind. He was asking questions about using his Apple computer for video editing. That doesn't really add up to me. |
Leo Laporte
Seymore4Head wrote:
I was listening to him yesterday in the car and a guy called in that said he was blind. He was asking questions about using his Apple computer for video editing. That doesn't really add up to me. Blindness is not a binary condition. There are a wide range of deficits including a somewhat arbitrary "legally blnd" state which differs from one country to another. There are those whose blindness may be principally in color perception, night time vision, peripheral vision, etc. The bottom line is that video editing and many other tasks which rely on vision can be performed by those individuals whose medical and / or legal situation is accurately described as blind. |
Leo Laporte
I'm 'face-blind' - prosopagnosia in fancy
terms. I distinguish non-family members by heights, sounds of voice, and other non- facial cues. |
Leo Laporte
|
Leo Laporte
Seymore4Head:
Ironically, I can recognize most makes/models of cars by the shape of their headlights at night, as well as most major types of commercial jet liners passing over our neighborhood(we're under a flightpath that takes many of them across to England & Europe). What I NEED is to be able to recognize the most basic feature of fellow human beings - their FACES for cryin out loud! Watching movies with me is an exercise in patience, as I am constantly confusing similar looking characters. And the condition is not helped by the use of glasses. I use the example of Hilary Duff and Britney Spears some years ago, when they were simultaneously on top of their careers and on the fronts of magazines. Until I picked the magazine up and read the caption I was SURE Britney was Hilary and vice versa. But most other people, especially women, said I must have been crazy to confuse the two! lol |
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:19 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004 - 2014 DIYbanter