• Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours 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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      12 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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        4 hours ago

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

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          19 minutes 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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          1 hour 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.

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        6 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?