"She set him down on a park bench. 'I'll be back in 20 minutes, dad. Stay put.' He laughed. 'I'm not going anywhere,' he replied and adjusted the thick glasses that shielded his unseeing eyes."Oddly enough being legally blind isn't the same thing as being blind. I fall into the first category, but I can still see well enough to do things here and there. That said, you'll always see shows on TV that want to make super-humans out of blind people--as though their other four senses were somehow ten times better than everyone else's. But the truth is, blind peoples' senses are the same as ours, they've just been training how to use them differently than we do for ...generally longer than we have, unless they've only just gone blind. In which case, they're in the same boat as you and me.
That said, learning how to "see" without being able to see is definitely possible. Maybe you can't see the colors of something, but your idea of color might be attuned to sensations instead--especially if you have someone in your life that can tell you what color the things around you are.
I want to say one last thing about the Netflix show Daredevil. What the protagonist does on that show is beyond what a normal blind person (or any person) can do. That's why he's part of the Marvel comic book universe. He's a superhero who just happens to have been blinded by chemicals when he was young. And I like to think something in those chemicals changed him, but I guess I'll just have to wait and see as I've never read the comic.
For now, though...let's try and explore the world together from a park bench.
