[nfb-talk] Utah Woman is 'Blind No More'

[T. Joseph Carter]

I disagree.  You wouldn't have to relearn life--you already know how to do
things.  You just have a new sense that you can begin to use to help you
do them.  Probably a person who was raised blind and (re)gains vision will
continue to behave as a blind person while they're getting used to these
eyes.

Certainly they won't know what to do with vision automatically, but I'm
pretty sure they'd get the hang of it in less time than a sighted person
would need to get the hang of being blind.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:06:33PM -0500, kaye zimpher wrote:
> I was wondering some of those same things. People who report on this kind of 
> stuff and I guess people in general that ask "wouldn't you like to see?" 
> don't understand that if I or someone else like me did see again we would 
> not just wake up from an operation and say "what time is it and wow is that 
> my mom and dad over there?" We would have to relearn life basically. That 
> learning process is not truly illustrated in the article.