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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Blind Especially when used metaphorically (e.g., "blind to criticism") or preceded by "the", although "the blind" is considered acceptable by many blind people and organizations such as the National Federation of the Blind .

  3. Alexithymia - Wikipedia

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    Early studies showed evidence that there may be an interhemispheric transfer deficit among people with alexithymia; that is, the emotional information from the right hemisphere of the brain is not being properly transferred to the language regions in the left hemisphere, as can be caused by a decreased corpus callosum, often present in ...

  4. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]

  5. Blind - Wikipedia

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    Blind experiment (single-blind or double-blind), a procedure to reduce bias in scientific experiments Blind hole , a mechanical engineering term for a hole that does not come out at the other side Blind via (electronics) , an electrical term used in printed circuit board

  6. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    The word "blind" (adjective and verb) is often used to signify a lack of knowledge of something. For example, a blind date is a date in which the people involved have not previously met; a blind experiment is one in which information is kept from either the experimenter or the participant to mitigate the placebo effect or observer bias.

  7. Woman happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong dream of ...

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    She became blind after pouring drain cleaner into her eyes because she believes she was meant to be disabled. Woman happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong dream of being blind Skip to main ...

  8. Cultural depictions of blindness - Wikipedia

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    In each of these stories, a blind beggar hears that Jesus is passing by, and cries out "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me". The crowd rebukes the beggar, but Jesus calls him forward and heals him with a word, or by touching his eyes. [13] In another story in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus heals a blind man of Bethsaida by rubbing spittle into ...

  9. Jake Gyllenhaal Says Being Legally Blind Has Been ... - AOL

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    Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about how being legally blind has impacted his career. The actor, 43, shared with The Hollywood Reporter that he’s found his blindness to be “advantageous ...