blindness, n.Trivia

James Joyce had poor vision so he wore an eye patch and did his writing on large white sheets of paper using only red crayon.

Approximately 70,000 people in the US are both blind and deaf.

Blind people can experience visual hallucinations when they take psychedelics like LSD

If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

Diabetes is the number 1 cause of blindness in the US

Blind people who have never seen before will still smile despite never having seen anyone else do it before because it's a natural human reaction.

Dyslexia is a reading disorder, not a seeing disorder, meaning that Braille readers can also be dyslexic.

Theodore Roosevelt is the only president who was blind in one eye

US currency is unique in being all the same size and color, forcing blind and visually-impaired Americans to depend on someone else to identify the denomination of each bill.

No one born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Blind people forget many memories since they don't have visual imagery and can't look at pictures to reminisce.