GIRL BLIND FROM BIRTH NOW SEES.
"VERY STRANGE TO FIND MIND PICTURES WRONG." SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. A Wisionsin girl, blind from birth, has been given her sight at the age of 20, after half a dozen delicate operations during which the capsules that blocked the'passage of light to her eyes were removed.
' Now she looks upon a world which has no meaning to her until she. touches objects with her fiingers. Friends, animals, books, even such -simple objects as safety pins are unrecognisable until she'can "feel them. Although she can' see- perfectly, she cannot understand the images thrown upon the retina of her sight until the sense of touch explains thorn to her. "One of my greatest surprises is my family and friends," she says. "1 had strong mental pictures of them, gained from touching them, their voices, and their personalities. They are so different to what I imagined them. Colours are different, too."
She has begun to get acquainted with what she calls "the funny little marks" that take the place of the Braille script to which she has always been accustomed.
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Shannon News, 23 October 1928, Page 3
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184GIRL BLIND FROM BIRTH NOW SEES. Shannon News, 23 October 1928, Page 3
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