Slowhands
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Sorry about your eyesight. It's funny, I've been thinking a bit about how my puppy perceives the world through their noses and wondering how different the world must seem to them. In any given moment they experience the way the spot where they are standing IS and how it WAS in the recent past and know that there are things inside other things that we have no idea are there. What must that be like?Sorry for the problems some of you are going through, I can fully understand. My mother was born with severe hearing loss and has been wearing hearing aids since a child. Over the past 40 plus years it has gotten to the point where she is almost completely deaf and the hearing aids do very little to help. For the first 7 years of my life I repeatedly battled severe ear infections to the point where the doctors had to place tubes in my ears constantly. They thought that with my mothers hearing it was hereditary and I would have the same problems in my life. Turns out it is the opposite I have the hearing of a Bat but unfortunately as I have gotten older I am starting to go Blind as a Bat . Kinda like Master Po from Kung Fu I might not see you but I'll hear you coming from a mile away. LOL
And I know that like that, there are people with amazing hearing that can listed to a symphony and hear all these nuances that don't exist for me. Similarly a guy I worked with once told me he refused to use a wireless mouse because it was too slow. He could only use wired ones because he had sort of superhuman eyesight and the slight delay was unbearable for him. I laughed but turns out he had been a professional video game player, one of the top in the world and his hand/eye was off the charts compared to normal folk. In some ways we're all a little bit hobbled with our own senses. But we do the best we can with what we have and use tech and science to try to fill in the gaps whenever we can.