A great article. I recently visited the "Blind Exhibition" in Warsaw. They show you some items that blind and visually impaired people use on a daily basis and

A great article. I recently visited the "Blind Exhibition" in Warsaw. They show you some items that blind and visually impaired people use on a daily basis and then you have to guess what they are for. I'd never contemplated how blind people know when a coffee cup is full, or pair their socks. They then take you into a series of rooms (bathroom, the street, art gallery, kitchen etc.) which are completely black. Not a shred of light. You are blind. I can't describe how it felt other than terrifying. I didn't know if my eyes were open or not. It wasn't the black that I saw when closing my eyes, or am sleeping in a dark room. It was this empty hollow of nothingness. As someone who has always wondered what it's like to be blind then closed my eyes for a few minutes and stumbled around my home - it's nothing like that at all. I left having found a new sense of understanding for the struggles that blind and visually impaired people go through on a daily basis. An interesting but harrowing statistic they mentioned at the end of our trip was that the majority of people go blind, instead of are born blind. And the main cause is diabetes. It's not uncommon that those with diabetes lose their sight and then their sense of touch. Imagine not being able to feel your way around after going blind. I highly recommend the exhibition if you're ever in Warsaw, and I think they have it in a couple of other cities: http://niewidzialna.pl/en/ http://niewidzialna.pl/en/