Sir: Lipreading? But how can you read my lips if you're blind?
Whitlow: Oh, it's because I'm deaf, sir, that my sense of vision is naturally enhanced. Blind people are known to have very keen hearing, so they sort of... cancel each other out.
Sir: You mean you can see and hear perfectly?
Whitlow: Yes, because I'm blind and deaf. One miraculously compensates for the other.
Whitlow: Oh, it's because I'm deaf, sir, that my sense of vision is naturally enhanced. Blind people are known to have very keen hearing, so they sort of... cancel each other out.
Sir: You mean you can see and hear perfectly?
Whitlow: Yes, because I'm blind and deaf. One miraculously compensates for the other.
Danny Rand: It just doesn't make any sense. What do you mean, you're Daredevil?
Matt Murdock: It's a long story, one I'd rather not tell. More importantly it's a secret I keep not just for the sake of protecting myself, but also for the people that I love.
Luke Cage: Okay, I get that.
Matt: Good.
Danny: I don't. You're blind!
Matt: Yeah, well, sight is overrated.
Matt Murdock: It's a long story, one I'd rather not tell. More importantly it's a secret I keep not just for the sake of protecting myself, but also for the people that I love.
Luke Cage: Okay, I get that.
Matt: Good.
Danny: I don't. You're blind!
Matt: Yeah, well, sight is overrated.
— The Defenders (2017), "Royal Dragon"
"When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door."
"It's not disabled! It's handicapable!"
— Uncle, Jackie Chan Adventures
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings
But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings
But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing
— Scatman John, "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bob-Ba-Dop-Bop)"
"We blind see things more clearly."
— Emily, The Beyond
Dean Pelton: Abed, you're "special"; can't you just... stand at the scene of the crime and see what happened?
Abed: I see a man... using a social disorder as a procedural device. Wait wait wait- I see another man: mildly autistic super-detectives everywhere — basic cable, broadcast networks — pain. Painful writing. It hurts. [glares and walks away]
Dean Pelton: Okay, ooh la la.
Abed: I see a man... using a social disorder as a procedural device. Wait wait wait- I see another man: mildly autistic super-detectives everywhere — basic cable, broadcast networks — pain. Painful writing. It hurts. [glares and walks away]
Dean Pelton: Okay, ooh la la.
"The closest we get to seeing Senua exist with other people is in flashbacks to conversations with Dillion or the trauma of her father’s extensive abuse. She never has to go to the store for milk. She’s not struggling with losing her job because she had a flashback in a meeting. Paramedics and cops never break down her door because she didn’t answer phone calls from her friends and family for a week. […] We need games that present people living with mental illness as real and valid people. But we also need those games to handle mental illness as it is, not as allegory."
— "What Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice gets wrong about mental illness
", by Dia Lacina
", by Dia Lacina"Like I said, I wanted [Oree's] blindness to be part of her identity, as unremarkable as her gender or race... but by constructing her blindness as the result of her magic, I not only made it remarkable, I emphasized its abnormality. Imagine if I'd said she was only female because the magic made her that way. Or if I'd said she was only black because one of her ancestors was something inhuman that happened to have black skin."
— N. K. Jemisin on the pitfalls of this trope in the Inheritance Trilogy, "Why is Oree Shoth blind?"
"When someone loses one sense, their other senses are enhanced. Like a blind man who can smell and hear really well."
— Finn the Human, Adventure Time, "Still"
