Do blind people roll their eyes, as in :rolleyes:?
Peace,
Mangeorgr
I wrote the OP while having breakfast (actually a bacon and egg cheeseburger) at IHop. One of the family sitting at a table close to me, a blind woman, laughed and appeared to roll her eyes. It’s such an universal expression, most used to express real or pretended exasperation, I wonder whether it’s learned or automatic like smiling or frowning. Or both.
I certainly didn’t mean to offend. 
There’s the possibility that the woman in question was not born blind, but became blind after a point where one might learn to roll their eyes (probably childhood). She might continue to do it as a good signal to others of her opinion on a subject. But whether someone who was born blind might do it instinctively is a good question.
Do you know exactly how blind she was? There are people without any capability of sight, and there are those who just see very, very poorly. With good enough magnifiers, the latter can see decent enough and thus have as much use of the muscles in their eyes as anyone else.
Can’t tell for sure, but she wasn’t wearing glasses and her eyes had that unfocused look that some totally blind people do.
I didn’t watch her a lot, though.
There’s a center for the blind in El Cerrito, so there are quite a few blind people around.
Like most gestures and facial expressions except smiling and frowning, it’s culturally specific and learned, so no one blind from birth would know or make the gesture. If she did it, I’d infer she wasn’t blind from birth.