Interesting, @keobooks and @thorninmud. Thanks for those links. @ibstubro Somehow Fluther did not alert me this time that a similar question had already been asked. But anyhow, some of those earlier answers may also be referring to people who may have been sighted at one point. I was wondering about individuals who have never seen anything in their lives.
This question was triggered after watching Iolanta, an opera by Tchaikovsky at the movies last night. It’s the story of a girl who was born blind, but her father, the king, did not want her to ever know what she was missing, so he forbade everyone around her from giving her any indication that she was blind or that she could not “see”.