I wonder if this is the origin of the blind people always want to touch faces idea?

[kestrell]

Tadoma was a method whereby deaf-blind people would feel another person's face in order to interpret what that person was saying
from
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/book/SeeWhatImSayingBook2/SeeWhatImSayingBook/Chapter7.html
excerpt from _See What I am Saying: The Extraordinary Power of Our Five Senses_ by Lawrence Rosenblum
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/book/SeeWhatImSayingBook2/SeeWhatImSayingBook/Home.html