People are often surprised, even amazed (me included, sometimes) how some totally blind people manage not just getting around their home ground, attending to their daily and personal needs, but can work efficiently in many professions. One guy here is the director of a photographic company and in the varied fields of photography and graphic design!
We, the sighted, forget that being blind doesn't mean they don't have visual concepts, especially those who lost their sight some way along their life, after they had already seen quite a bit of the world and life. They had conserved the images in their 'mind's eye' so to speak, and ideas and out of their head have shapes, forms and colours.
I know a man, well I don't actually know him, but have been seeing him for more than 5 years in the same night club where I regularly go dancing. He is rather short, has only one leg, no artificial one either, just a stick, but he often has very tall and pretty dance-partners; because he's a fabulous dancer. Waltz, Tango, Pasodouble, Rumba ... nothing defeats him. Not just managing the steps, but the more important part, the style! I once said to my dance-partner I wished he was mine, and that didn't go very well with my companion!
Do you bogs out there know this, that if you are a good dancer, you always, always get all the prettiest girls?
