Similarities Between Night Blindlessness And Color Blindness

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Partial blindness is one of the conditions that occur in the eyes. In 2010, the number of optically impaired was estimated to be two hundred and eighty-four million, of whom thirty nine million were sightless. Moreover, most of people with partial blindness are successful people because most of them are never give up due to they see their lives in different ways. Night blindness and color blindness make people see their lives differently, each one of them has it is own definition and between them there are tow main similarities and differences. Blindness, sightlessness, is a condition that affects humans to make them unable to see (2). First of all, there are two types of blindness; one of them is total sightlessness, and the other …show more content…
The first similarity is that both people with this condition lost their ability to see as inborn problems, which means all of people with color blindness and people with night blindness have partial blindness since they were born (1). Therefore, both of people with color blindness and people with night blindness need to adjust with blindness because it considers untreatable. Another similarity between them is that neither of people with color blindness and people with night blindness is complete loss of vision. Although they have various problems with sight such as people with color blindness have a problem with colors, and people with night blindness have a problem with seeing in low light: However, both of people with color blindness and people with night blindness can still differentiate between shapes (2). In addition, both people with this condition have a lot of difficulties affecting their lives. For example, people with color blindness cannot drive a car because they cannot distinguish between the different colors in the traffic signal. In addition, they cannot know if meat is cooked or raw. Likewise, people with night blindness cannot walk in a dark room such as a movie theater. Color blindness and night blindness are under one main category because they have three similarities, which are both of them are inborn problems, neither of them has a complete loss of vision, and both have difficulties affecting their

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