Virgil wasn’t born blind, he started ti develop cataracts in his eyes when he was around the age of six. The article talks about how his blindness instilled some sort of permanent pacify in his demeanor.
Once the surgery was completed, the first thing he saw was the blur of someones face. His vision wasn’t neccesarily perfect. He couldn’t focus on things for long period of times, because his eyes had an ability to linger. He explains having areas in his eyesight with varying degrees of pigmentation. Also being confused by how things actually looked because his perception of them without sight was different.
I guess I never really thought so in depth about how perception and vision go hand in hand. Like one helps you understand the other – which is something that was incredibly hard for Virgil to grasp. There is a clear division for him, because he’s learning two intwined subjects so far apart from one another.
