• athatet@lemmy.zip
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    9 天前

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

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      9 天前

      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.

    • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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      9 天前

      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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        9 天前

        (the account you just replied to isn’t the account with the blind wife who uses prosthetics)

        • athatet@lemmy.zip
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          9 天前

          While this is correct, I AM, in fact, someone who wears glasses and knows some stuff about them and their uses.

          • smh@slrpnk.net
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            9 天前

            Yep, no shade on you, I just didn’t want the other person to think they’d heard back from the other other person.

            • athatet@lemmy.zip
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              9 天前

              Real question: do other lemmy viewers not show usernames on posts or do a lot of people just not read them? Cause I’ve deffo had other instances of people not realizing they were talking to someone else.

              • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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                9 天前

                I use sync and it doesn’t show the username while you are writing a comment. So I might not notice unless I look closely at the notification or at my inbox.

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                9 天前

                I think folks just don’t read them. I use Connect and it shows usernames.