Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I think Enes is in his 20s, but not sure.
Texting while driving is incredibly stupid. I imagine half the people who do it anyway know that, and think they can handle it just this once. Then, if nothing disastrous happens, they decide they might be more capable of getting away with it than sense would suggest, and do it again.
I say this because I might maybe possibly once have tried texting while crossing an industrial driveway on an interstate ramp. This is exactly as stupid as it sounds, but I got impatient and didn't think it would be that dangerous, for some reason (I mean, it's not like I'd be looking away from the road, or anything, right?) Of course, I veered off into the road and somehow didn't die. So, 1, don't do that, and 2, underestimating one's susceptibility to hubris is hubris.
@165: I don't think Orco meant blind people should be memorizing everything all the time. I mean, Dark has made the point several times that spatial awareness is an ability that varies from person to person, and he focuses on landmarks and reliable cues. Echolocation is one of those things that is rarely taught, and if you don't think about it, you probably don't notice it, but it's definitely a skill which can be trained, given sufficient hearing.
I'll grant that talents and styles in these areas matter. I met this hard-core NFB guy who'd been with them his whole life, who was still having a painfully hard time demonstrating any intuitive grasp on his orientation after High School. AFAIK, he eventually got better, but if someone that deep into that system can have that much trouble after so long, then it's clearly not so simple as "just go and do x".
I am tempted to bring up cultures. I mean, on one end, we have the way people treat Revan, and on the other hand, we have the wild range of attitudes in the Anglosphere, but I notice that one of the blind people I've met who expressed the most negativity toward blindness was a Turkish guy, I think in his mid-to-late 20s. His skills were pretty good, TBH, and the only thing that stuck out was his tendency to guide other blind people directly. He also mentioned that his first exposure to other blind people was a middle-aged man being guided by a 10-year-old, and how he found the idea of being in that situation unbearably humiliating. I kept remembering that last part, because, IIRC, Enes is the one who first mentioned humiliation. Meanwhile, the people who have been disagreeing with him most have been from places like the US and Australia. I don't know how relevant any of this is, but it's hard not to notice when the conversation splits along cultural lines.
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