[nabs-l] Feeling faces: a myth or true?

Loren Wakefield theweird1 at mediacombb.net
Tue Sep 9 00:37:27 UTC 2014


The only face I will touch is my wife's.  Otherwise, it is a bad idea.  



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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jedi Moerke via
nabs-l
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 6:26 PM
To: Chris Nusbaum; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling faces: a myth or true?

There might be some utility and feeling someone's face if you were an artist
and they were your subject.

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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Chris Nusbaum via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> I believe the concept got its start in Hollywood, though I'm not sure in
which movie a blind character first did it.
> 
> Chris Nusbaum
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Marissa Tejeda <marissat789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Same here.  But where did it even come from?
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
>> To: Marissa Tejeda <marissat789 at gmail.com>,National Association of 
>> Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org Date sent: Mon, 8 Sep 
>> 2014 08:45:32 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling faces: a myth or true?
>> 
>> It's a myth.  I have never felt someone's face nor have I known any 
>> blind person who has, although sighted people have on occasion 
>> invited me to feel their face if I needed to.  I don't know how it 
>> would help, but something in the idea of feeling the face of a 
>> stranger creeps me out.  (Smile)
>> 
>> Chris Nusbaum
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Marissa Tejeda via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> So, for a long time I've been want to know this, but never got around to
asking.  I, personally, don't feel faces to know what people look like.  Do
people really feel faces? How can it give someone a picture if they feel the
face? Is this just a movie and a myth, or reality and true?
>> 
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