tapping

tapping

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Natural behaviour of blind people is all too often seen as deviant. Many who are are blind are told not to click, tap their canes loudly, or stomp slightly. These are all echolocation methods and are all looked down upon as making the blind seem more helpless or ungainly. The view of these instructors is that the blind need to sort of hide themselves in the seeing community to try to “fit in” without causing too many waves. Until these sorts of obstacles are removed many in the blind community may never be able to use echolocation, or even be aware of it.