ELI5- What’s the difference between a legally blind person and a blind person?

Question

ELI5- What’s the difference between a legally blind person and a blind person?

In: Biology

Answer 1

In the U.S., a legally blind person just can’t see better than 20/200 even with glasses or contact lenses, or they’ve got a field of vision that’s less than 20 degrees. (Or both.)

Blindness, on the other hand, just means “very bad eyesight.” Many people think blind people can’t see anything at all by definition, but technically speaking, you can still have *some* vision and still be blind.