RE: a belated answer

From: Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad@ped.gu.se)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 09:20:45 PST


At 10.24 -0600 0-03-09, Nate scrobe:
>Vygotsky was also very
>critical of the assumption that to be blind is to live in darkness.

Which is totally justified. Stephen Kuusisto, legally blind from
retinopathy of prematurity, lives in a world shifting, due to lighting and
other circumstances, between blinding light, blurry colors, and dark
shadows. Being a poet, he describes what he'll see in most beautiful ways
-- like living in a stained-glass window. Not very helpful for navigation,
though (and he describes how, due to neurotic collusion in his family, he
"passed" as seeing through ordinary school, and for many years of adult
life).
Through his childhood and youth he was able to see and read with one of
his eyes when his nose touched the page of a book... until the headache set
in after 20 minutes or so. I think there are visual equivalents to aural
tinnitus as well.

Eva



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