• Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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    4 个月前

    Nah. My wife is legally blind without her prosthetics. She’s rather stay blind than use these.

    • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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      4 个月前

      What do you mean she is blind without her prosthetics? Isn’t she still blind with the prosthetics or do they help with vision somehow?

      • athatet@lemmy.zip
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        4 个月前

        Glasses to help see are prosthetics. People can be legally blind when not wearing their corrective lenses.

        • mellibird@feddit.online
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          4 个月前

          I’m one of those people. Close to being legally blind if I have no glasses or contacts on. My dad is legally blind without corrective lenses.

        • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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          Ok that’s fair. I’ve just never heard of glasses referred to as prosthetics and assumed you meant some kind of artificial seeing device. Which is suppose is what glasses are but I was hoping for a more high tech answer.

          • smh@slrpnk.net
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            4 个月前

            (the account you just replied to isn’t the account with the blind wife who uses prosthetics)

            • athatet@lemmy.zip
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              4 个月前

              While this is correct, I AM, in fact, someone who wears glasses and knows some stuff about them and their uses.

              • smh@slrpnk.net
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                4 个月前

                Yep, no shade on you, I just didn’t want the other person to think they’d heard back from the other other person.

                • athatet@lemmy.zip
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                  4 个月前

                  Real question: do other lemmy viewers not show usernames on posts or do a lot of people just not read them? Cause I’ve deffo had other instances of people not realizing they were talking to someone else.

                  • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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                    4 个月前

                    I use sync and it doesn’t show the username while you are writing a comment. So I might not notice unless I look closely at the notification or at my inbox.

                  • smh@slrpnk.net
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                    4 个月前

                    I think folks just don’t read them. I use Connect and it shows usernames.

      • Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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        4 个月前

        Sorry - she has keratoconus. Her prosthetics are essentially large, hard contact lenses, filled with saline solution, effectively reshaping her corneas. Also called sclerals.

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        4 个月前

        TBH, I’m also not sure what they meant. The only visual prostheses I know of are things like glass eyes. Maybe “prosthesis” is their term for eyeglasses or contact lenses?

        edit: or there are neat things that integrate into your brain to give you sight. So maybe one of those?