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Case studies suggest otherwise, at least for most people. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not-see-oliver-sacks https://www.newyorker.c

• nsonha 1y ago
  don't have full article access but this part near the top makes it not applicable to the situation being discussed (blind from birth) > since early childhood
  • Timshel 1y ago
    In a way it strengthens it since even if he became blind later one, still: > It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing. And while he does get better, it does end up with: > But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift. Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not-see-oliver-sacks https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).