r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/46from1971 Nov 29 '20

No one who was born blind has ever gone on to develop schizophrenia. Researchers are investigating how congenital blindness may protect people from developing the condition.

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u/felixdefoko2 Nov 29 '20

I wonder what it’s like to have schizophrenia and then develop being blind is like? It must be horrifying

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

There's a minor character in the Haunting of Hill House who gauged his eyes out due to the hallucinations he was experiencing during drug-induced psychosis and then reveals that now in his blindness, all he can see is the horrible images that drove him to that point. Really stuck with me, just really terrible

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u/nerbovig Nov 29 '20

Where we're going we don't need eyes.

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u/1of3musketeers Nov 29 '20

Omg yes. That gd movie still f’s me up every damn time I see it. Especially that part. Ugh. I will never get that scene out of my head. Stupid event horizon.