Emotions Come Through Whether You Can See or Not

Summary: Imagine that someone just stole all of your favorite food and ate it. This would make you sad, yes? Now imagine if you were blind and someone just stole all of your favorite food and ate it. This would still make you feel sad, yes? I suppose it took people a while to realize that emotions still function – whether you’re blind or not. In some ways, the blind have a more defined sense of loss than people with sight because they obviously can’t see. With their disability, however, it’s sadness times four and a half. Because chances are, in their subconscious, they’re not sure if someone’s going to steal all their food, but they’re pretty sure the thief has an advantage. And someone with an advantage over someone else is going to try their hand – no matter what they win. They can’t see someone sneaking up and grabbing them. In essence, it makes them feel worse about the disability than the food. They just feel sad that they don’t know what‘s going on. And I’m pretty sure THAT is sadder than someone stealing all of your food. To summarize my spiel, the blind are still aware of feeling sadness and making the emotion on their face prominent, despite the fact that they’ll never get to see sadness itself. Impact: Quick, SMILE! Okay, so I guess I didn’t really expect anyone to do that, but the point was the muscles. Ah yes, the muscles. In your face. Everyone smiles the same way –with the same muscles, I mean. Our smiles obviously all look different because of the structure and placement of our bones. This is where genetic phenotype plays a big role. So, in final summation, it doesn’t matter if you can see or not. Scientifically, it all depends on your genes and the structure of your face. Emotionally, it all depends on what you’re smiling about and when. Critique: I have never really thought about how it would be if I was blind. This was so cool – I have never met a blind person or a deaf person in my life. Obviously, I have no idea what life is like for them or how differently the live from everyone else. I do know, however, that people with disabilities have feelings just like everyone else. That is why I just can’t stand it when someone bullies someone else with a disability – and of course I have to get involved and make things worse because that’s always what happens when you try to help someone in need. Still, just because they can’t see what sadness looks like doesn’t mean they’re incapable of feeling it. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081229080859.htm