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Originally Posted by Salem
I always think about this!! I recently became friends with a blind girl, and it's kind of an awesome experience. She's really funny and really straight up about her blindness. I'm not sure what they see, but I assume it would be something like pitch black. But I do wonder, especially for blind / vs blind from birth.
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I read a story once about a sighted kid who regained his sight as an adult after having been a champion blind-mogul skier. He never did really manage to make use of his sight, having lost it at a very early age (if you don't have it as a child, you don't develop the necessary neural pathways to use sight functionally).
He ended up skiing with his eyes shut because he couldn't process the visual cues. He decided that vision (quoting as best I can from memory) "has a certain entertainment value, but really doesn't have much practical application!" I loved it.