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by mLuby 2718 days ago
Losing one's imagination seems more common than losing one's sight. :(
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Fortunately there are plenty of cookie-cutter computer games available for people with impaired imagination.
That sounds like a good thing to me. It would be unfortunate if going blind was more common
The more common a disability becomes, the less of a disadvantage it becomes - with some lag, of course - the world does tend accommodate for the (visible) average.
Can confirm. I have a condition which makes it hard to see in sharp detail more than 8ish meters away. My wife has the same, as do many others in my family to some degree. There is a very robust industry producing adaptive devices for nearsightedness.

I've even heard things like contact-lenses-as-a-service advertised on general interest podcasts.

There’s even this thing where they use lasers to burn away chunks of your eyeballs, because yeah, losing unnecessary weight and all makes you see better. I had it done a few weeks ago and it’s life changing!
It is still undoubtably useful, even if thanks to technology we can manage without.
Reading as a replacement to everyday stimuli that we are all too used to like video games and youtube is what I found to help my imagination flourish like I remember it did when I was younger.
This comment inspires me to work on my art.