• Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

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

    • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      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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        14 hours ago

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

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          11 hours ago

          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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          10 hours ago

          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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            9 hours ago

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

            • athatet@lemmy.zip
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              7 hours ago

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

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                7 hours ago

                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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                  7 hours ago

                  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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                    2 hours ago

                    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.

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                    6 hours ago

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

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        16 hours ago

        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?