Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, uses humor to answer the most popular questions about living without sight and faces challenges which test his other senses. Videos produced and edited by Ben Churchill.
Tommy, I heard that Elon Musk and his Neurolink have made some progress in giving vision to the blind. Before that, they gave a paralytic the ability to play games with his mind, so I don't think it's impossible. I was wondering, if you had the chance, would you be one of the first to get one of these things? Hopefully there won't be any barriers related to the visual cortex or age.
Wow it’s crazy that you don’t know what the earth looks like! I bet it’s hard to explain or understand. I don’t know why I want to say it a ball of enormous size floating in darkness, which is outer space
I would have 1000 or more questions for you. I always wanted to talk to someone like you. In order to get you to try and understand the questions, I would have to imagine myself blind from day one and see what is left. Wow, I am just blown away.. I think if I tried real hard using all kinds of commonalities, I could help you understand vision, what it is.
A little perspective as someone recently unemployed: even w a lot of desirable experience, it is hard to get another job that pays enough for my bills. I’m working on getting a job. I’m not sitting around. I think that’s how it is for a lot of unemployed.
I love the drawing. I look for the video because I paint and I'm getting blinder by the day . I want to keep painting after I go blind . I love your voice and personality 💕 ❤❤❤thanks for sharing
I just discovered the channel. But the owner of channel is not here for 9 months.😁 i hope you are fine. I have a friend who blind. Maybe we will paint together. I like to show him new things that he did not do until now .
I’m a person who is fortunate to have at least some say I was born say yes I’m losing my own say I am a type of going blind. I’ve been fortunate enough to get to Ellies age 31 with a reasonable amount of site and know what colors are and see them and experience them and I still don’t get it. I know what colors are. I can connect them to things For your eyes some who is cited at least for the time being couldn’t go further than that like I don’t get the nuances of colors that people who I know who are also side, who understand it a lot better than me and I never dare try to explain colors to my fellow members of the my local blind community I might say, do you have an idea of what X color is And some of my peers do some have a vague knowledge of it so I have a reference that they use by never assume they do I ask first if they have an idea and only if they specifically asked me to give them in some form of example, would I ask try to explain it to both of my own authority, which is not that great itself And I give you an everyone else who was born, blind or lost that I said at such an early age that they are not able to have any memories of color all the props for doing with those of us who tried to explain it to you myself included
I think a hard thing to imagine for a blind person is seeing how much someone has aged over the years , especially if you haven’t seen them in awhile , or even decades .
I would not describe yellow as a warm color, and definitely not white as being sweet if it had a flavor. I was thinking white until she said that, and then I was like “sweet?!”. Just goes to show even sighted people have very mixed feelings about color.
Blind people don't see black. They see quite literally nothing. Something we can't comprehend. It's like what we see from the back of our head; nothing.
Dajm, I expected that it is as we close our eyes and see black that he can do that also. He mentioned at some of his videos that now he got cataract so it looks different for him than before, so if it looks its quiet possible to have some kind of color.
About money, I'm happy my country has made all paper money and coins different sizes depending on how much it's worth. So one worth 50 is smaller than 100. The texture might be different too but I'm not 100% sure about that. They did this for anyone blind or legally blind, very nice 👍
For one with sight, I've grown to realize seeing is entirely different. Sight is sensory information received by the eyes. And while their definitions are similar, seeing... it's akin to listening. A suspension of our subjective projections on what the world should be and rather admiring what is and what it has to say.
Stevie Wonder IS blind in the sense that his eyesight is bad enough to be classified as blind but I don't believe he can't see anything at all. Even when you listen to many of the lyrics of his songs, he sings about concepts that would be nigh on impossible for someone who couldn't see at all to grasp, never mind be able to sing about. Even if someone explained it to them, without personal experience, they would not be able to talk about or sing so passionately about those certain things, yet Stevie Wonder does, he sings like he's had some personal experience of the things he sings about, which I think he has up to a point. My hypothesis is the reason he's been able to keep up the pretence (or perhaps we call it a half pretence) all these years is because of the fact that he really does have eyesight problems as I said, so it's not a complete act. It would be hard for someone with very good eyesight to keep pretending to be blind all day long. It wouldn't be hard for someone with eyesight issues to act blind though, for a personal example, I myself am very shortsighted, not enough to be classified as blind like Stevie because I can see 20-20 with glasses but if I took off my glasses and just wore a pair of ordinary sunglasses, I could very easily go around acting blind and I would be very convincing because combined with my natural bad eyesight and dark glasses, I would not be able to see very much, I'd be effectively a 'blind man' for all intense and purposes, and if my career depended on me doing that in public all day, no problem, piece of cake, just saying. Just to add one other thing though, I don't want to be knocking the man, because despite this, shall we say, exaggeration of his, I still think he's a genius anyway and sure deserves the name 'wonder' purely on his voice alone and the young age that he started out and let's not forget, being partially sighted to a point where glasses won't help is still a handicap, so he's still amazing and a great inspiration anyway. Thanks.
