Friday, March 07, 2014
Annoying PSA
All the local radio stations have been running a hugely annoying PSA, or maybe a paid ad, about some sleep disorder that supposedly troubles blind people. The ad starts out "Now here's something you don't hear on the radio: a totally blind person."
Something you don't hear??? Nonsense. Quite a few radio personalities have been blind or nearly blind, and it wasn't something that 'came through the speaker'. Even if all the voices you heard on radio were blind people, you wouldn't know the difference. It's irrelevant. Hearing problems do come through the speaker, because deaf people have strange articulation and poor voice resonance control. When Rush suddenly lost his hearing, it was blatantly obvious.
The speaker in this PSA then claims that blind people have trouble sleeping because they don't sense light and dark. Maybe so, but if that's really the worst thing about being blind nowadays, it's a piddly thing.
I don't understand the problem anyway. Light doesn't affect my sleep one way or another, because I have these strange appendages called EYELIDS. Most other people seem to have EYELIDS as well, and I'm pretty sure they close them when they intend to sleep. I've lived alone for a long time, so it's possible I'm not up to speed on the latest fashions in eye accessories; maybe other people have stopped using their eyelids to block out light. Maybe I'm the last remnant of an old obsolete practice. Maybe I'm the only person in the world whose sleep is affected more by sound than light.
¶ 5:01 AM 
