Describe the world to a blind child...
By charmz1005
@charmz1005 (679)
Philippines
October 23, 2009 8:56am CST
How would you describe the things we see and the creation of God to a child that since birth have been blind? I myself really couldn't answer this. How could he/she appreciate this? Although I know that he could appreciate sounds more than we do but still only dark is what he sees.
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@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
i would express it the best i can for a child to be able to understand it. it will be hard indeed since the child has not seen any thing since birth. but i guess that by letting a child touch things and able to describe things by what he touched could make it easy for him to understand things.
@charmz1005 (679)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
Your right, they can identify an object through touch. How about the colors? I wanted to describe a color to them but don't know how?
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
24 Oct 09
there is no way to describe color except the color that they can see. i mean being blind they see black and sometimes some white light and that is all they can see i think. cause i have heard from one blind person before that they can still some bright thing but she was not blind at birth so she knows how to identify the color she sees when she became blind.
so for those born blind at birth it is impossible to describe colors to them. there is no way to do that. only if they can see it themselves that they can understand what color is. color is something that is not possible to describe by words without comparing it with other colors.
@getbrowser (1708)
• China
23 Oct 09
It is next to impossible for me to finish such a job.
For the blind children, they may have some advantages in sound and feelings. So, if we want to describe the world, we can try to let them be aware of the existence of world with sound and other feelings. It is useless to tell them the colors of things.
I am not sure if it will help, but we can have a try.
@charmz1005 (679)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
Very nice suggestion. We could relate it to the sounds that they are hearing, like instrumental music, let's say a rainbow could be describe a happy and joyful songs, right? Nice idea, thanks.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
18 Jul 11
hmm 2 yr old discussion, wish I'd seen it before
anyway it's way late reply
I would teach the child to see the invisible world with the 3rd eye
the physical world is merely where things manifest
not where we truly live
@CrimsonRain (336)
• United States
23 Oct 09
"You know, our world is a very colorful place with deep blue sky, bright red sun, cotton white clouds, and nature green trees. But since you can't see any of them, you are very lucky, because none of these things really matter. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
BTW, nice topic. :-)
@charmz1005 (679)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
Yup, your also right. They couldn't see all the bad things happening in this world. All the selfishness, jealousy, and other miserable things that man are doing. Thanks, I've just thought it and couldn't answer myself.
