How do you explain to someone who has been blind all their life about sight?!
Question:
How do you explain to someone who has been blind all their life about sight?
If somebody was born blind, how do you explain to them that they are blind, and everybody else can see the things that they cannot, and can they understand this?
Answers:
ok...who remembers the movie Mask?? The movie from the 80s...Cher was in it....
Anyway, the main character, Rocky, worked as an assistant counselor at a blind camp...course, he fell for this blind girl...and they were talking...colors...she said she couldn't understand....
Rocky got some things together to help identify colors: A rock from the freezer was "blue", a rock from boiling water was "red". Grass was "green". Cotton was "white".
You'd have to explain an association...by touch. They've well adapted to what they know...blindness. If they were born blind, they do not know anything else and honestly do not consider that a handicap in most cases. Their hands, ears, nose, and mouth ARE their eyes. The other senses take over and totally compensate.
No, they won't know what a rainbow looks like...but if you use physically descriptive words, they can draw a mental picture.