I read this out to my roommate and commented, “Isn’t this funny? They completely forgot about sign language.”
They just stared at me.
Did you try communicating in clicks?
Hold on, let me give it a go.
I’m being evicted.
Shit happens. Some people just never “click”.
Clearly, there are stupid questions.
How can I communicate with redditors?
This
The most reddit thing you could say.
“Reddit moment”
Ugh I feel dirty even writing it out.
r/SomeRelatedSubName
Repeat comments from the last time that particular post was last posted before.
Via memes.
And arguing. Just don’t forget you need >1M upvotes to even be listened to
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Really pushing the boundaries of “no stupid questions” here.
Yeah, but do you guys have a blind guy you recognize in your neighborhood that you wave to everytime you see him?
I do.
Somehow he probably knows.
He probably feels the soft touch of wind generated by your waving hand, hears the subtle flapping of your fingers irregularly slapping against each other, smells the unique fragrance of your less-than-optimal washed skin which is enveloping his nostrils and on his taste buds he’ll tas…
Ok, I need to back off and I’m sorry.
I’ve seen enough movies to confirm. He’s blind so he must be super powered in every other way.
You really gotta hand it to blind prostitutes
This one snuck up on me after a couple of seconds. Lol
r/somestupidquestions
Most ironic subreddit name ever
How do you communicate with someone who’s
- deaf
- blind
- mute
- insensitive to touch
- also imperforate nostrils
- impervious to “mind” control and standard boilerplate cognition ;)
I invent an elaborate language around smells and my farts become my voice as a combination of musk and vibrations where the scent and timbre of my fart mean different things depending on the context.
This is the only way.
Also insensible to smell
YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE RULES!
I
TOTALLYjust heard Snake the felon on The Simpsons saying this and it made me laughEdit: The goalposts, they are a’movin’
Dude read book base on an alien race that used smells as a language. Called Agent to The Stars.
You might enjoy “The Androids Dream” by John Scalzi.
Telepathically, of course…
I forgot to menyion they have a chromosomal issue that makes their mind—let’s say less receptive—to extrasensory perception and boilerplate cognition🤕
Stab them in morse code.
Umm…I think I’ve boxed out any capabillity for that, is the logic not airtight (like, check it now, its been updated a few times). You got me worried there’s still a hole in my logic 🤔
Pretty sure all the senses/possible inputs have been mitigated
You said insensitive to touch, but pain is separate from touch and smell.
You could also feed them ghost peppers to communicate, use ambient temperature as a signal, or cut onions in front of their eyes in a specific pattern.If we are using ghost peppers to figure out a way to communicate, we can probably save some time and just interpret whatever response they give as “please kill me, you sadistic assholes” and land pretty close
Touch and pain are two different types of sensory input iirc
Re-presencing.
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How do I communicate with blind people?, submitted by Redacted to /r/NoStupidQuestions
Like obviously there’s Braille but is there some form of clicking I can do with my tongue to simulate Braille verbally?
Edit: nvm you can just talk to them
Good human.
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Drink more Ovaltine?
Drink water with a lot of sugar, it’s the same.
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Ok so less stupid I hope, how do blind folks use touch screen devices? Do they use an audio or braille reader?
To begin with, blindness is a spectrum and not an on/off switch. That means blind people can still often see something, even if it’s not clear or bright etc. Accessibility tech for touch screens is often just making the displayed content larger or higher contrast, as well as screen reader capabilities, combined with gestures, hotspots, there’s definitely some capability for use of a touchscreen while vision is impaired
Visually impaired can use high contrast, large text for easier reading. More typically an equipment made accessible for people with visual impairments and blindess would have tactile buttons (often with Braille) and audio prompts.
Screens that can produce raised Braille text anywhere are rather uncommon.
My dad is completely blind. In the past you’re correct that it would have been tactile, but they’ve gone to touch screens pretty universally. I can’t speak to android, but iPhones have really good accessibility settings. For the fully blind they have a setup with a screen reader where you can tap the screen and it says what’s in that section then you tap it again to actually click it. The more common way (at least for him) of using it is to drag your finger around the screen - each section will give haptic feedback and read it off every time your finger enters a new section.
Theuch bigger problem is smaller websites and apps that don’t bother going through the extra effort to define these sections in such a way that the iPhone can tell what it’s supposed to be reading or even where the section really is.
Fully blind people will need to use some sort of text-to-speech software. Partially blind / low vision people can often get by with high contrast and larger text.
Also, dumbphones.
You can just talk to them?! What a time to be alive.
IT HELPS IF YOU YELL, OK?
If you yell too much, they won’t see where they’re going.
That was posted in the wrong sub.
I mean, it was a very stupid question.
In case this isn’t a joke and you actually don’t know, there’s a saying in the US (don’t know if it exists in other countries) that some people use, that “there are no stupid questions,” which is meant to help others feel like they can ask anything within the context of the ongoing conversation.
For example, if a teacher is teaching something and asks if there are any questions, they might follow up with, “There are no stupid questions,” to help their students feel like they can ask anything about the topic. They’ll especially do this if nobody asks anything and the teacher knows it’s a difficult topic to understand.
That’s what the sub name is related to.
Interestingly, it does exist in every country I looked for on Google just now. In Germany we say “there are no stupid questions” as well. Kind of nice of people.
We also have “fear of a smart face” when no one dares to ask a question because everybody else seems to understand since nobody is asking a question. (Die Angst vorm schlauen Gesicht.)
