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

[Chris Nusbaum]

I am no artist (at least in the graphical sense of the term,) but just for identification I would never feel someone's face. I find no utility in that. However, I can only speak for myself.

Chris Nusbaum

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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Marissa Tejeda <marissat789 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> True, but what I mean is, just in gEneral, would a blind person just feel a fe.
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> From: Jedi Moerke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>,National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:25:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Feeling faces: a myth or true?
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> 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:
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> I believe the concept got its start in Hollywood, though I'm not sure in which movie a blind character first did it.
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> Chris Nusbaum
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Marissa Tejeda <marissat789 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Same here.  But where did it even come from?
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> ----- 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?
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> 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)
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> Chris Nusbaum
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Marissa Tejeda via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
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> 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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