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You Can't Ask That

Blind People
Season 2  |  Episode 1  |  ABC  |  April 6, 2017

Critical thinking

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding
9-10 11-12
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Life-affirming, insightful, hilarious and refreshingly inappropriate television. This episode, blind people bust stereotypes as they answer the questions viewers asked.

Life-affirming, insightful, hilarious and refreshingly inappropriate television. This episode, blind people bust stereotypes as they answer the questions viewers asked.

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