Yeah, blindness can be in such a lot of shapes and severities. I have 80 percent less visual nerves than most people, and I can still see most things except small text and street signs. I can walk normally too, which caused me to have an identiy crisis at one point. I felt like I could not be categorized as blind, because a stereotypical blind person has no idea what light is, an nor I could be normal, because I have a hard time recognizing faces as well.
I know the feeling… I have papilledema, especially in my right eye my optic nerve is really damaged… feel kind in the middle like you not enough to be categorised blind but not enough normal too …
Wait, as in you have 80% of the same visual nerves as most people, or you're down to 20% of the same visual nerves as most people? Because the latter makes me think you're a superhuman if you're able to still see most things. Either that, or we really don't use 80% of our visual nerves all the time...which isn't unheard of, so...I guess that explains it?
Yes. Some blind people still have some vision, some can only see white lights, some can only see blurry colors, some have black dots or tunnel vision. The general definition of blindness is that it is non-correctable with glasses. But also visual distortions that interfere with normal tasks.
Yeah most blind people have at least some level of light perception in their eyes but not all. Some can see but it’s just very blurry and not really enough to process most of their surroundings. Some may have small slivers of clearer vision. Being blind mainly just means your vision is impaired enough to where glasses can’t fix your vision and you need aids to some extent
I'm blind with some light and color perception. I for me see smudges of color behind tv static. It's like I'm trying to look past the static to see the world beyond it, but as time goes on, the TV static gets thicher and thicker.
As a special education teacher who has worked with visually-impaired students in the past, it brings me to tears to see you empowering these young leaders! 😭 Thank you so much for educating us all, and this is the content our world needs more than ever! 💖
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I love this my daughter is 5 years old and born with no eyes she goes to a mainstream school but is now starting to realise she is different to the other kids we keep telling her how great she is and she can try everything that everyone else does but still doesn't stop her asking me to give her eyes which is sad but she has mostly good days and tomorrow they are getting her bell ball out to play football with her friends. I tell her about you and everything you do sometimes she listens to your videos x
Sounds like she may be a good candidate for learning the clicker to help her get around. Knew a man that used it who was born without eyes. He said due to this his brain is heavily adapted to noticing subtleties in sound. He used a metronome watch walking around. A keychain with a click device when he was being more specific with his movement. Fun, interesting guy, a bit odd or unique. Very much a Savant type. Extremely good at some things while oblivious to others.
@@katiekennett5294 wow, never heard of that. It will be hard for her, even if you tell her how precious she is, she will struggle with feeling different. But with loving family ans support she'll grow up to be a great human.
Thank you all for sharing your personal experiences & helping us understand a little more about a range of different visibility impairments & what has caused them. 💛
Love this! I have severe keratoconus and I was blind for a few years in one eye until I had the surgery. It has about 60% vision now! My vision is still very unique and different afterwards
Being blind must be super hard :( You can't see colors and people's faces, or you can't see the world and some of it's amazing places. You guys are so strong and you proven that you can still live a good life even if you are blind. Love you guys💓
Yes being blind is hard for a lot of people especially when it first happens it takes a long time to get adjusted some people adjust quickly while others don’t in my case I’m not blind but I am legally blind and visually impaired due to retinopathy of prematurity it has its good days and bad days but I constantly go to bed every night worrying if I’m going wake up the next morning and not be able to see I will give you an example I dozed off one time for about an hour I woke up I swear I couldn’t see anything other than a whitish gray fog I was panicked and scared but it finally cleared up I was probably just dreaming but still but anyway lots of visually impaired and blind people go on to live wonderful lives and I have met some truly remarkable and amazing people in the blind community and some of the things that they do is just absolutely incredible
I feel bad that we live in a world where we still need disabled people to explain themselves, but I do appreciate that awareness is changing, if incrementally, for the better. Thank you Lucy and thanks to other creators from the disabled community for explaining a little bit about what your world is like.
OMG! I have peters anomaly, which only affects my eyes. It is a step down from peters plus. Peters plus affects the entire body as well as the eyes in someway where is peters anomaly just affects the eyes and the way they develop. It’s so cool to hear someone say they have a similar condition as mine.
I'm not blind, but I need glasses as I have myopic astigmatism. This is so inspiring to me as how these 6 amazing individuals, different in their own unique and special way, have adapted to their different situations and difficulties everyday. Bravo!👍
That was interesting for me to learn. I was always under the assumption that people who were completely vision impaired saw a blank canvas of either black or white.
I was a coach for the blind in Verizon Wireless Customer Service call center. I knew they had different but i didnt want to ask and make them feel uncomfortable. It wouldve been fine i think. They were all some of the nicest and happiest people i knew. Somehow they always showed up to work with a smile and it was genuine that they were happy to be there. Unlike the rest of us lol
I’ve always wondered what blind people see. This really helped shed some light on this obscure idea for me. It’s sort of like answering the question how do deaf people think? Deaf people actually think in sign language because that is how they talk.
Fyi deafness works a bit like this too. I'm deaf in the left but my right can hear only midtones (at a reasonably normal level). So I can't hear bass or bells at all, ever, but if you're sitting in front of me I can hear you. (Old men with grumbly voices excluded -too low). People sometimes don't believe I'm deaf. Even my bosses at work, I find out they've been testing me secretly , creeping up on me with bells and stuff. Since I can hear you talking I must be lying about not hearing the loud ass siren, right!? There's all kinds of possibilities with our amazing complex bodies!
Big big hugs and love to these young people. I recently heard, back in 2020 Little Caesars and Dunkin got sued for their websites not being accessible to the visually impaired. This led to a new initiative of corporate websites converting their coding to allow for visually impaired people to be able to easily use their sites (things like audible prompts when hovering buttons). This is great news!
Amazing how positive these guys are. My eyes sight is fine, general health is good, and yet I’ll still find time to be less positive about trivial crap. Bravo folks 👏
My parents knew of my chance for semi-blindness (100% left eye and ~10% right eye) at birth and still chose to have me. I still find that choice to be incredibly cruel, but with the life I'm given I'll do my best to help others.
This certainly makes me feel guilty about winging about the little things in my life when u have children out there suffering like this. God bless them all
This was very interesting i didnt know there were so many different types of blindness. Most of my life i thought blind people could maybe see like shapes. But what i find most amazing is that all of you have such a happy spirit i could not imagine what i would do if i lose my sight.
i remember a class trip where we went to a place (cant remember the english word for it) it was to teach us about disabilities. one of them was to demonstrate diffrent forms of visuall imperments. by using safety goggles with black tape on them. completely coverd or with black dots. they also sanded down the glasses to stimulate blurry vision. we would walk an obstical course with these glasses on. i think all schools should do these kinds of demonstrations. it reallly helped me learn and understand it better
firstly, I would like to thank Lucy for what she showed us in this video. Not everyone’s the same, we all are different. and as a team, we can do anything. Secondly, I would like to say well done to all the blind people who are out there, And who’s dealing with this, and I would like to say. Your all super hero’s, since y’all r going through a difficult time but Still making the best out of ur life. Thirdly, there style is better than mine, even though they can’t see, Which completely humiliates me 😅
I've had one rather large blind spot that showed up in my right eye 30 years ago when I was 15. Back then a retinal doctor diagnosed it as most likely ocular toxoplasmosis but now hearing the last girl describe Stargardt disease and looking it up I now wonder what it is that I actually have. Unfortunately this spot has completely blocked my central vision in this eye and now over the last few year I've noticed weird color changes in my peripheral vision. Sometimes everything in my right eye will have a yellowish tinge and then other times the saturation levels of colors will change so everything will be a few shade different in color to my left eye.
can you please tell me whats been going on in my eye? i have perfect 20/20 vision in one eye and 25/20 vision in another, but i have a black dot on the sclera of my eye, like a mole.
Yes, this is beautiful. Being blind or visually impaired is not a black and white thing. The eye is extremely complex and so are the variations of conditions.
I dated a woman who was completely blind in one eye due to a childhood illness. When people asked her what her blindness 'looked like' she'd answer 'put your index finger behind your head and try to see out of your fingertip. It looks like that.'
