• 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.

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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.

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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.