I don’t remember the specifics because it was damn near 40 years ago, but I had a teacher tell the class that everyone has a sort of 6th-sense sight through an invisible 3rd eye in the middle of your forehead. And her example was that blind people will pick out clothes by colors or tell someone they were wearing an ugly tie. Which I’ve never seen, at least not outside of some sort of Hallmark Romance Drama quality religious schlock.
I never had any problem correcting a teacher if they made some calculation error or misquoted something out of the book (I wasn’t an asshole who corrected every single thing, just the ones that might be material to everyone else’s understanding of the lesson).
But when confronted with a teacher spewing utter bullshit, I was at a total loss for a response. I can’t imagine anyone else believed it, either, but what a fucking loon. My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
I don’t even know if that was the worst/only one, but that’s the one that has always stood out for me.
I guess you could add that American Exceptionalism was taught as a legitimate point of view rather than nationalist bullshit.
I wonder if she had heard of a (controversial) phenomenon called blindsight in which some very specific conditions of blindness some people are said to not consciously see but still have some sort of subconscious “sight”.
As in the eyes physically work and these people have damage to a very specific part of the brain, allegedly.
Anyway she was obviously wrong but that just reminded me so I linked that.
I don’t remember the specifics because it was damn near 40 years ago, but I had a teacher tell the class that everyone has a sort of 6th-sense sight through an invisible 3rd eye in the middle of your forehead. And her example was that blind people will pick out clothes by colors or tell someone they were wearing an ugly tie. Which I’ve never seen, at least not outside of some sort of Hallmark Romance Drama quality religious schlock.
I never had any problem correcting a teacher if they made some calculation error or misquoted something out of the book (I wasn’t an asshole who corrected every single thing, just the ones that might be material to everyone else’s understanding of the lesson).
But when confronted with a teacher spewing utter bullshit, I was at a total loss for a response. I can’t imagine anyone else believed it, either, but what a fucking loon. My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
I don’t even know if that was the worst/only one, but that’s the one that has always stood out for me.
I guess you could add that American Exceptionalism was taught as a legitimate point of view rather than nationalist bullshit.
How did she think colorblindness worked?
I wonder if she had heard of a (controversial) phenomenon called blindsight in which some very specific conditions of blindness some people are said to not consciously see but still have some sort of subconscious “sight”.
As in the eyes physically work and these people have damage to a very specific part of the brain, allegedly.
Anyway she was obviously wrong but that just reminded me so I linked that.
This is called thinking