What's Cool about Blindness?
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| Title: | What's Cool about Blindness? |
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| Authors: | Michalko, Rod1 |
| Source: | Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer2010, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p27-27. 1p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Experience, *Blindness, *Culture, Blind people, Standards |
| Abstract: | The author reflects on the direct experience of blindness. He explains that the experience of blindness of a blind person and those who are not is influenced by a culture standard time. He mentions that blindness is the time to understand sight and the sighted configuration of the world. He points out that blindness time for blind people means a time for sight, for normalcy and for development of self-understanding. |
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| Abstract: | The author reflects on the direct experience of blindness. He explains that the experience of blindness of a blind person and those who are not is influenced by a culture standard time. He mentions that blindness is the time to understand sight and the sighted configuration of the world. He points out that blindness time for blind people means a time for sight, for normalcy and for development of self-understanding. |
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| ISSN: | 10415718 |
| DOI: | 10.18061/dsq.v30i3/4.1296 |
