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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on August 08, 2021, 05:23:58 pm ---Wouldn't surprise me in the least ::)
I see.
We just call it either blind or visually impaired.
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We use those terms, too, but "legally blind" is somewhat more specific. Blind means blind, visually impaired could mean totally blind, whereas "legally blind" specifically means not totally blind.
I asked John if it's harder to adjust to blindness in midlife than it would be to be born blind. Yes, in some ways, he said. On the other hand, having previously been able to see lets you understand what sight means. If you've never been able to see, you would have no concept of what "light" or "green" or other vision-related references even mean. They'd be totally abstract.
Speaking of John, when we went out the other night I learned two unfortunate things. One is that he DID have a girlfriend, but they broke up. So when we were sitting there at dinner, it gradually dawned on me that we were on a date. Later, he asked me to come into his room (no), join him in the fitness room the next afternoon (no) go up to the roof for a drink the next night (yes, but I also invited another neighbor, Sandy).
He's very nice and reasonable intelligent, a former lawyer, and blindness alone might not be a deal-breaker. But it got worse. He identifies as conservative.
Even that might possibly be acceptable. I hate to be too partisan, and John seems pretty mildly conservative. This came up when he said he was changing his mind on the death penalty -- used to be a supporter, which isn't great, but then he revealed that he ... oh, it's so horrible I can't even say it. Put it this way: he strongly dislikes Hillary Clinton, so ...
He also turns out to believes a few of those really cockamamie conservative myths. For example, he thinks the Biden administration is flying immigrants up from the border and establishing them in cities around the country so they'll vote for Democrats and can get on Medicaid. I spent five minutes googling to establish that neither of these is true: the Biden admin has flown immigrants to other states for processing because the border is so overwhelmed with traffic, but then is returning illegal ones to Mexico. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid.
He thinks most unvaccinated people are Black. No. Most unvaccinated people are Republicans.
He'd been emailing me, so I returned the email with links to an article in the Washington Post, statistics from Kaiser research, etc. He wrote back that he is skeptical of "the news" these days.
Deal-breaker.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 10, 2021, 12:11:36 pm ---He thinks most unvaccinated people are Black. No. Most unvaccinated people are Republicans.
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:laugh: (Are you sure that's not a liberal myth? ;D )
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 10, 2021, 12:22:09 pm --- :laugh: (Are you sure that's not a liberal myth? ;D )
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:laugh: Kaiser Family Foundation has stats!
Yesterday I was discussing all this on the phone with my son, when mid-rant I noticed my phone had gone dead. I plugged it in and waited for the battery to charge enough that I could call or text an explanation.
A text from my son popped up. "You all good? Did the libs get you?'
:laugh:
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 10, 2021, 12:11:36 pm ---We use those terms, too, but "legally blind" is somewhat more specific. Blind means blind, visually impaired could mean totally blind, whereas "legally blind" specifically means not totally blind.
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I see (no pun intended).
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 10, 2021, 12:11:36 pm ---...He wrote back that he is skeptical of "the news" these days.
Deal-breaker.
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Remember, he is on his best behavior and trying to make a good impression. Think about what it would be like if he were his natural self!
I know, I married a Republican-in-Democrat-disguise. I only found out the truth in 2000, when our children were teenagers. :'(
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