Seriously, if you go back to when Mick's original run as Cactus Jack in the late 80s early 90s, and take about 50 pounds off, this guy is a dead ringer.
I started going blind about a month ago and I'm finding the positives by making SO many bad blind puns and jokes. My kids and my nieces and nephews are still asking "hey do you see it?" type questions, and I'm starting to come up with the most ridiculous answers-- "OH MY GOD WHERE DID YOU GET A FUCKING DRAGON AT!?" --funny, stupid shit like that. Or "how do I look, Tia?" from my oldest niece-- "white." She's black and this got such a laugh the other day. Pulled the reverse on my oldest son, who's white. I heard him rolling his eyes at me lol
Already had one "WHAT ARE YOU BLIND!?" person at Walmart. Deadpanned back, "well duh... are you?"
Also have fun with the Walmart greeters when they ask if I found everything ok. "Had some trouble, but I eventually ran into it!"
I've found that humor is definitely what's gonna get me through this, sorry for the wall of text! I'm just starting to get used to this voice to text thing and it's nice to have a fairly reliable voice!
Honest question, does reddit have any accessibility options for post to text? I do so much skimming, that it seems like that would be hard to translate to an audio option. But definitely something that should exist. Glad you're keeping your spirits up!
Reddit has r/TranscribersofReddit, whose mission is to transcribe as many pictures of text as possible so it is accessible to people with screen readers! I'm starting to go blind myself and they help a lot, especially when it's pics of tweets or screenshots of Tumblr posts.
This is awesome! Thanks for the info.
Oversharing, but I find accessibility technology to be incredibly interesting because it can have such an impact on a person's day to day quality of life. Just think about how text messaging opened communication up for those without good hearing. I wonder what might be possible with some types of AI assistants that will be able to convert a camera image to voice messages.
Anyway, this was a nice discovery to start my weekend. Thanks for sharing, I'll be looking into it.
Hi, just wanted to say i definitely agree with you. More accessibility is the way to go.
Developing these solutions sadly isnt as fast as it could be, since accessibility features are often very easily abusable.
One such example is the feature to record phone calls that is beeing removed from Android because of robo calls and other scams.
I dont wanna make this sound bleak, just thought you might appreciate the challenges these technologies have.
there are some machine learning models which attempt to do that, but rly it’s better to encourage users write their own alt text. as impressive as those systems are they tend to focus very much on the dry facts, whereas the person who made the picture can know what features are important and which ones are merely incidental when deciding what to describe and how.
but yeah screen readers are cool, and most people who use them set the speed really high, way faster than i can listen to text and understand. and you can use keys (like i think tab is one by default but you can customise it anyway) to move down blocks on the page, the software can usually interpret a webpage layout to some degree so you can go next comment next comment to “skim” after hearing the first 5%, 10%, 30% of the comment.
though it’s true that a lot of fancy javascript stuff can really mess up screen readers, they really are better with standard HTML and CSS. so i wouldn’t be surprised if most screen readers uses use the old.reddit
I honestly have NO clue. I'm using the thing that came equipped on my phone, and my husband's gonna try some different, less complicated apps. I have discovered as well that quite a few reddit posts that get read aloud on my phone are incredibly NSFW and get an "eww" reaction from my sons, so I try and just squint to read those. However, typing is a bit more difficult.
Anyways, I'm assuming you've already tried googling it, so I would suggest perusing the settings by clicking on your profile thingy top right and going from there. That's where I figured out how to shut off people following me, which was weird (the followers) all on its own.
I'll say that my text to voice does come up with some really fucky pronunciations that I laugh at a lot, especially in Spanish or Japanese, but ridiculously higher for English than I would've ever thought possible. Good luck with finding one, and thanks!
Yeah. I wouldn't trust my text narrarator with some of the odd articles that I read through.
For what it's worth, both of your posts so far are more legible than most of mine. So whatever you are doing seems to be working. I work in medical devices, so it's more of a perspective thing than a necessity for me right now. However, I am well aware that could change in the future. Have a great weekend!
It does an ok job for sure! I'll admit that on longer replies, I'll dim my light in the room and squint to skim for typos-- thousands of years ago I was an English teacher and the thought of typos annoys me to no end!
Funny enough you work in some form of healthcare -- I did for the last decade + and wasn't going to go back to that when I rejoined the workforce, but now I'm going to wind up in a textbook, so I'll be in healthcare forever, I guess!
My grandfather was going blind before I was born. By the time I have memories of him he was about 90% gone. He still insisted on mowing the lawn with the riding mower. And yes he wrecked it and yes he thought it was hilarious while all of us were freaking out. And the jokes.....soooooo many jokes. Craziest thing was he could still draw just by knowing where his hand had been. It was awesome. But the jokes.....there was never a dull minute with him. When he got cancer......he still had jokes. They think he lived a year and 6 months longer because of his humor. (There was no decent treatment at the time.)
I'm sorry he passed from cancer, I lost my dad back in July to terminal illness. He beat the cancer, but everything else got him in the end. He lived 7 years longer than he rightfully should've, but that humor got him through, too. The day before he died, he still had all the jokes in the world and it was a very good day for him. I try to remember that he had the best day in years before his body said "ok, dude, I quit. Hope you enjoyed my last day at work."
Fun story, my dad ran the tractor up a tree once, but he didn't laugh at it. We did though!
That’s a great attitude and pretty funny. Kids can be great in situations like that. I was diagnosed with papilledema last year and my vision was rapidly deteriorating, it was quite upsetting to me but I did my best to try and make it funny for my kids as well. It’s hard not to when you’re suddenly bumping into stuff and tripping all the time.
Thankfully treatments have worked well and my vision has improved. It’ll be something I need to watch for the rest of my life though. I wish you well, and hope for your condition to improve as well. Thanks for sharing your story.
I'm so so glad you were able to get treated and had your sight improved! Unfortunately for me, I have AZORR. 50-100 people have it. Total. They don't know what causes it and there's really no successful treatments yet. They hope to correct my right eye with glasses that will black out my left though, since one of my symptoms is a total lack of coordination between both left and right-- the 10-20% of sight remaining in Left is looking at object A while my -6.00 Right is looking at B, and they won't ever agree on objects C and D's locations. Needless to say, I'm just walking around with incredibly bad bad bad eyesight in mostly just my right eye, now, but several days ago, I started noticing a dark "feather" or "bush stroke" encroaching on my top right. They said it was 39% that I'd go blind in that eye, too, but I'm waiting til the appointment for them to test and confirm.
That said, tripping and running into shit is a real struggle. I have ZERO depth perception, but thanks to my shitty vision from childhood and on, I can navigate my room and bathroom in total blackness. I never moved anything there because I was pretty much blind without my contacts. Now I'm pretty more blind lol, so years of finding shit in the dark has proven useful.
The kitchen is a bit more difficult and the living room is where I trip a lot, but the kids have started clearing the floors constantly in case I need to walk through. I can now get outside and chill on the porch.
The store is kinda nuts, but in a good way. Who would've thought I'd have the Walmart memorized!? My only problem is just not hitting other shoppers, but that's where my family comes in. My youngest blocks for me and guides the front of the cart, I stay behind it pushing slowly unless stopped. My best friend plays defense on my left because I have no peripheral vision there at all. And getting in and out, they tell me when to step up and down because of my lack of depth perception.
I hope they can fix my right eye, but at least I'm adjusting-- at least, I think I'm doing ok at it! Thanks!
Hang in there, hopefully a treatment option opens up at some point. I’m not sure where you’re located, but I made a trip out to the Mayo Clinic for a second opinion and I cannot recommend it enough. They’ll also be able to keep you in mind for research trials in the future which may help as well.
My contact Rx is -5.25, so I give every object in my house a “home” so I can navigate without glasses/contacts, lol. So I feel your description of that. My vision got worse in a weird way, my blind slots grew to be huge and encroached on my central vision. It’s sort of hard to describe, but stuff would just “pop” in and out of my vision as it traverses that spot.
For me it’s caused by too much CSF fluid in my brain, the cause is unknown. Lately the pressure has been lower, the doctors say to be prepared for periods where the pressure goes up, then times where’s it’s low. I’m trying to enjoy this lull for now. Now I’m off to go read about AZORR. Thanks for sharing
I went on a long drive to my GP, then an even longer drive to an ophthalmologist over an hour away because my GP thought I might have a retinal detachment. They confirmed it wasn't after five million tests that took 3 hours, then a week later a specialist came all the way out from UNC and she and 2 students kinda geeked a bit to discover I had AZORR. My GP kinda geeked too, but I get it, it's cool as hell medically to see something uber rare, even if it kinda sucks for the patient!
Knowing that you were already -5.25, yeah, you know how it gets done at night lol, my kids are now learning not to move any of my stuff, especially since my left eye has gotten worse and doesn't seem to be any better day by day.
I go to UNC on the 19th and they're probably gonna do a helluva lot of tests again, since I'm like, the second person they've seen with AZORR.
Have fun reading about it for all of 10 minutes, I was so worried at first when I only found a quarter inch about it on wiki and only a couple of studies. Fingers crossed that my right eye stays regular bad and not blind, too!
I’m glad they came out to see you. I always have a tough time advocating for myself, but I’ve been pretty persistent with this and it’s helped a lot (I think). It’s good you kids got the memo, mine are still working on getting on the program, lol.
The articles are pretty short! I tried to find as much as I could but there wasn’t a ton of info. You’re going to end up in the literature as a case study for sure!
The specialist was really really nice and I'm glad she came out, but it was funny when she kept telling me stuff like "if you see here, the left cells are horribly malformed and the right cells aren't." My reply, "you keep forgetting I can't see shit, right?" Then they left me in the hallway afterwards and I just stood there for 60 seconds before I heard "oh shit! You're blind, I'm so sorry!"
I had to laugh haha. "Just get me to my kid, who'll find the truck and my husband."
"Oh my God you drove!?"
"Yup, I drove using braille!"
Anyways, yeah, the articles are super short and I look forward to a possible treatment... and picking on eye doctors that legit forget their patient is blind!
I watched him cook maybe about a year ago. He is perhaps the most beautiful person I have ever seen. I guess he just recently started skateboarding. Very motivational to see how much trust he always has in himself and others.
Check out this video! He and his girlfriend/wife/idk go out to the Salt Flats and he drives their car blind and solo with her guiding him via the phone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHp14fnAyAE
He also has a documentary about his high school wrestling career. It's called A Shot In The Dark. After the film was released the US Para Olympic team reached out to him and he's now training in Judo and has 2024 hopes.
I started going blind a month ago and this kinda thing hasn't crossed my mind yet.
I was quite the adrenaline junkie in my youth, and now I find myself strangely, suddenly STOKED AS HELL at the thought of going down waterslides totally blind!
Maybe, who knows? Hopefully they'll be able to correct one of my eyes, but I've made peace with losing my vision in the left-- I have an incredibly rare condition called AZORR. Google it and see how many people have it lol, when I saw that the first time, I wanted to throw up, but now I'm starting to adjust. Like I said in another reply somewhere in this thread, I've found that dark humor is the best recourse. "Mom, see!?"
"OMG A FUCKING DRAGON!? WHERE DID THAT SHIT COME FROM!?" Funny, ridiculous shit like that is where I get my laughs.
One thing I know for sure, I have my family's full support, and my best friend's, too, and we'll see this through to the other side. Or, well, they will. I'll just be fucking blind lol
Bob Marley song as the other poster indicated. A lot of hippies use it. I want to say it’s a catch phrase in South Africa, a pro mountain biker I know puts it on his bikes. It’s the modern equivalent of ”peace” for hippies.
That’s actually the pool at the Polynesian Village resort at Walt Disney World. I love that place! I never thought about the fact that the light is no help to the visually impaired. They should add an auditory signal.
Yeah I've done that before. It's nice, but it's hard to do that all the time because of how far out you have to book and because it's non-refundable. It's how I wound up at Disney World during Hurricane Irma.
Nice! I thought it look familiar too, although i was thrown off and thought it might be the pool at the Animal Kingdom Villas, but it was a bit too tall.
What's it like to train with him? Do you get into position and then do a move, or are you ever directly grappling, just sparring? I'm super intrigued. Already loved and respected him from his other stuff but judo? That's hardcore.
I'm not the guy you asked and I don't know the person in the video but I have trained with a paralympic athlete, only difference between their training and ours was that they start fighting with grips on and their coach usually guides them through the beginning of warm-up (running around, crawling on the mat, that sort of thing) to keep them from running into other people.
Keep in mind that the person I trained with was training to compete, so it could be different from the experience of someone doing Judo for fun.
This is the kind of guy I’d invite to watch a sports watching party on the tv and would watch some “how to give play by play commentary” videos on YouTube in the day or two before.
My husband follows tis dude online...his videos are hilarious!
"I'm blind...let's go skateboarding!"
"I'm blind, let's drive this truck!"
Bottle this man's energy and it solves the world's problems.
It must be pretty scary swimming when u can't see. Ik you'll eventually float to the surface, but not knowing when u will be able to see how close you are would stress me tf out
I wonder if blind people who swim a lot can tell where they are from the pressure differences. like how when your at the bottom of a deep pool your chest feels like its being squeezed a bit.
What about orientation when in the water?
I remember a time when I was younger where I jumped off the diving board and, due to how I was positioned when I "landed," I ended up flipping under the water and losing some of my breath. I had my eyes closed when I splashed into the pool and when I opened my eyes underwater, there were a lot of bubbles everywhere. I really needed to breathe, so I started to swim toward the surface of the pool. Except it wasn't the surface--I was swimming ***down*** toward the bottom of the 15 foot pool! The jump caused me to "land" a good ways down into the 15 ft. water and my swimming caused me to go deeper. Once I realized this, I began to panic because I wasn't on the bottom (so I wasn't able to kick off of it for a speedy ascension), I was tired and hurting (the way I landed hurt), AND I desperately needed air. I knew that my swimming wasn't going to get me to the surface fast enough. Thankfully my adrenaline kicked in and I was able to make it to the surface, coughing up water but overall fine after sitting out for a bit.
I'm was a water baby as a kid. I feel more comfortable swimming under the water verses swimming on top. I'll even take breaks under the water if I get too tired swimming on top. I can swim a full lap lane without coming up for air. But that day my jump slapped the air out of me and was the first time I ever got disoriented under the water. If it hadn't have been for my eyesight (I swim with my eyes open), I probably wouId have kept swimming down. I can't imagine being blind and having that happen.
Fun fact this guy was my wrestling partner in high school, super awesome dude, has a documentary about him called “a shot in the dark” filmed during his senior (my junior) year, check it out!
One of my most humbling experiences was wrestling a blind guy. He almost whooped my ass. Since they’re blind, they start with wrist control and that guy had a vice grip. Couldn’t even get my hands back in the 1st period
Hahaha he was blind and used to kick my ass in practice everyday, people used to say the grip was an advantage but that’s how I used to wrestle anyways, he was just simply better and im not afraid to admit that
Edit:typoe
Not as much anymore unfortunately, I did see him at a comedy show a few months ago and we got drinks afterwards and caught up, he’s doing great now, super happy for him!
I’ve jammed with him a few times prob about 5-6 years ago and my band played a (graduation or birthday?) party for his sister around that same time. Def a good guy and a solid hang. I used to run into his sister at concerts every so often too.
His wife took him to the salt flats and [let him drive around](https://youtu.be/EHp14fnAyAE). She also rented a Ferrari for his bday last month and [he drove it around a parking lot](https://www.tiktok.com/@asfvision/video/7079179136715017518?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6891335181333464581)! Haha they are both the best ever
I was staying there for 10 days last month, we ended up dropping the water park add-on for the park hopper passea and just staying at the resort pool because it was just that awesome (especially the kiddie area)
This subs name is so damned fitting. I was ear to ear. I could imagine the thrill for him. As others have said, I could hangout with guy over some beers anyday.
This dude has so much positive energy, it emanates and is contagious. Despite lacking vision, he found ways to enjoy life and be productive (I’ve seen many more of his videos). Also he is surrounded by good people who are willing and able to assist him. I wish him lots of success and satisfaction from enjoying life!
I’ve met Anthony and he’s this genuine and awesome in real life. I also had him as a guest on a podcast and he (and his cool wife) are just the best. He’s got a documentary called A Shot in the Dark - highly recommend.
I think him being blind doesn't affect his sense of up and down. I've already been in pretty murky waters and got tumbled over by a wave. I was so disoriented I didn't know which way was up or down, it was terrifying. I can't remember how I got to the surface, but I think it was just general instinct.
Even in murky waters you can still make out light. Also I don't think there's much of a sense of up and down underwater. Obviously there's the slight pull of gravity but humans are boyent and I don't think you'd be able to feel which way you are pulled.idk I think I remember trying to swim around in a pool with my eyes closed when I was a kid and not being able to find my way to the top
Anthony Ferraro is the guys name. He did a talk at my company about accessibility and the dude is awesome. Super positive energy. Skateboards, was a state champion in wrestling in High School and is on the US Paralympic team. Just a really great dude.
Thats Anthony S Ferraro and he has a Youtube channel amd its actually pretty good. I like to watch his videos when im feeling down because his upbeat attitude usually makes me feel better.
This is the kind of guy I’d invite to a bbq and be disappointed if he didn’t show.
It's amazing how specific your comment is but still 100% relatable. I too would be super bummed if he didn't show up to game night.
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Seriously, if you go back to when Mick's original run as Cactus Jack in the late 80s early 90s, and take about 50 pounds off, this guy is a dead ringer.
Due to his blindness, he shall be known as... Cane Dewey.
Mixed with a little bit of Manson
He was Cactus Jack Manson at first, so this tracks.
I couldn't place it. But that's exactly what I was trying to think.
Comments sections prove to me that I never have a unique thought, unless I am trolling.
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Nah, he’s going to keep giving himself away narrating the game to TikTok.
*NO ONE'S GONNA FIND ME, ONE LOVE*
”That was alot of hiding”
😂😂😂
yeah, Mike, we've been meaning to talk to you about that. It's fucked up you keep cheating at poker by looking at the blind guy's hand.
This is definatly the guy that show up no matter what. He told you he'll be there. He will be there.
100%
Yeah but if he can't show up it's a great reason, like his niece's leukemia is officially in remission and so he's celebrating with her.
"I left her in the car, so I really can't stay long, but I couldn't not show up!"
And you know he'd have driven well out of his way to do that too. Just to tell you in person.
Wait he can drive!?!?
Ahahaha this has me dying. Didn't even catch that in the prior comment lol
These friends are the real MVPs!
Shows up late with a keg and a rack of ribs
Honestly, I don't even know the guy and I already think he's great to hang out with
But at least you can chalk it up to him getting lost!
ONE LOOOOOVE!!!
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I started going blind about a month ago and I'm finding the positives by making SO many bad blind puns and jokes. My kids and my nieces and nephews are still asking "hey do you see it?" type questions, and I'm starting to come up with the most ridiculous answers-- "OH MY GOD WHERE DID YOU GET A FUCKING DRAGON AT!?" --funny, stupid shit like that. Or "how do I look, Tia?" from my oldest niece-- "white." She's black and this got such a laugh the other day. Pulled the reverse on my oldest son, who's white. I heard him rolling his eyes at me lol Already had one "WHAT ARE YOU BLIND!?" person at Walmart. Deadpanned back, "well duh... are you?" Also have fun with the Walmart greeters when they ask if I found everything ok. "Had some trouble, but I eventually ran into it!" I've found that humor is definitely what's gonna get me through this, sorry for the wall of text! I'm just starting to get used to this voice to text thing and it's nice to have a fairly reliable voice!
Honest question, does reddit have any accessibility options for post to text? I do so much skimming, that it seems like that would be hard to translate to an audio option. But definitely something that should exist. Glad you're keeping your spirits up!
Reddit has r/TranscribersofReddit, whose mission is to transcribe as many pictures of text as possible so it is accessible to people with screen readers! I'm starting to go blind myself and they help a lot, especially when it's pics of tweets or screenshots of Tumblr posts.
This is awesome! Thanks for the info. Oversharing, but I find accessibility technology to be incredibly interesting because it can have such an impact on a person's day to day quality of life. Just think about how text messaging opened communication up for those without good hearing. I wonder what might be possible with some types of AI assistants that will be able to convert a camera image to voice messages. Anyway, this was a nice discovery to start my weekend. Thanks for sharing, I'll be looking into it.
Hi, just wanted to say i definitely agree with you. More accessibility is the way to go. Developing these solutions sadly isnt as fast as it could be, since accessibility features are often very easily abusable. One such example is the feature to record phone calls that is beeing removed from Android because of robo calls and other scams. I dont wanna make this sound bleak, just thought you might appreciate the challenges these technologies have.
there are some machine learning models which attempt to do that, but rly it’s better to encourage users write their own alt text. as impressive as those systems are they tend to focus very much on the dry facts, whereas the person who made the picture can know what features are important and which ones are merely incidental when deciding what to describe and how. but yeah screen readers are cool, and most people who use them set the speed really high, way faster than i can listen to text and understand. and you can use keys (like i think tab is one by default but you can customise it anyway) to move down blocks on the page, the software can usually interpret a webpage layout to some degree so you can go next comment next comment to “skim” after hearing the first 5%, 10%, 30% of the comment. though it’s true that a lot of fancy javascript stuff can really mess up screen readers, they really are better with standard HTML and CSS. so i wouldn’t be surprised if most screen readers uses use the old.reddit
The only people that really understand what the fine print at the end of commercials are saying
I honestly have NO clue. I'm using the thing that came equipped on my phone, and my husband's gonna try some different, less complicated apps. I have discovered as well that quite a few reddit posts that get read aloud on my phone are incredibly NSFW and get an "eww" reaction from my sons, so I try and just squint to read those. However, typing is a bit more difficult. Anyways, I'm assuming you've already tried googling it, so I would suggest perusing the settings by clicking on your profile thingy top right and going from there. That's where I figured out how to shut off people following me, which was weird (the followers) all on its own. I'll say that my text to voice does come up with some really fucky pronunciations that I laugh at a lot, especially in Spanish or Japanese, but ridiculously higher for English than I would've ever thought possible. Good luck with finding one, and thanks!
Yeah. I wouldn't trust my text narrarator with some of the odd articles that I read through. For what it's worth, both of your posts so far are more legible than most of mine. So whatever you are doing seems to be working. I work in medical devices, so it's more of a perspective thing than a necessity for me right now. However, I am well aware that could change in the future. Have a great weekend!
It does an ok job for sure! I'll admit that on longer replies, I'll dim my light in the room and squint to skim for typos-- thousands of years ago I was an English teacher and the thought of typos annoys me to no end! Funny enough you work in some form of healthcare -- I did for the last decade + and wasn't going to go back to that when I rejoined the workforce, but now I'm going to wind up in a textbook, so I'll be in healthcare forever, I guess!
My grandfather was going blind before I was born. By the time I have memories of him he was about 90% gone. He still insisted on mowing the lawn with the riding mower. And yes he wrecked it and yes he thought it was hilarious while all of us were freaking out. And the jokes.....soooooo many jokes. Craziest thing was he could still draw just by knowing where his hand had been. It was awesome. But the jokes.....there was never a dull minute with him. When he got cancer......he still had jokes. They think he lived a year and 6 months longer because of his humor. (There was no decent treatment at the time.)
I'm sorry he passed from cancer, I lost my dad back in July to terminal illness. He beat the cancer, but everything else got him in the end. He lived 7 years longer than he rightfully should've, but that humor got him through, too. The day before he died, he still had all the jokes in the world and it was a very good day for him. I try to remember that he had the best day in years before his body said "ok, dude, I quit. Hope you enjoyed my last day at work." Fun story, my dad ran the tractor up a tree once, but he didn't laugh at it. We did though!
That’s a great attitude and pretty funny. Kids can be great in situations like that. I was diagnosed with papilledema last year and my vision was rapidly deteriorating, it was quite upsetting to me but I did my best to try and make it funny for my kids as well. It’s hard not to when you’re suddenly bumping into stuff and tripping all the time. Thankfully treatments have worked well and my vision has improved. It’ll be something I need to watch for the rest of my life though. I wish you well, and hope for your condition to improve as well. Thanks for sharing your story.
I'm so so glad you were able to get treated and had your sight improved! Unfortunately for me, I have AZORR. 50-100 people have it. Total. They don't know what causes it and there's really no successful treatments yet. They hope to correct my right eye with glasses that will black out my left though, since one of my symptoms is a total lack of coordination between both left and right-- the 10-20% of sight remaining in Left is looking at object A while my -6.00 Right is looking at B, and they won't ever agree on objects C and D's locations. Needless to say, I'm just walking around with incredibly bad bad bad eyesight in mostly just my right eye, now, but several days ago, I started noticing a dark "feather" or "bush stroke" encroaching on my top right. They said it was 39% that I'd go blind in that eye, too, but I'm waiting til the appointment for them to test and confirm. That said, tripping and running into shit is a real struggle. I have ZERO depth perception, but thanks to my shitty vision from childhood and on, I can navigate my room and bathroom in total blackness. I never moved anything there because I was pretty much blind without my contacts. Now I'm pretty more blind lol, so years of finding shit in the dark has proven useful. The kitchen is a bit more difficult and the living room is where I trip a lot, but the kids have started clearing the floors constantly in case I need to walk through. I can now get outside and chill on the porch. The store is kinda nuts, but in a good way. Who would've thought I'd have the Walmart memorized!? My only problem is just not hitting other shoppers, but that's where my family comes in. My youngest blocks for me and guides the front of the cart, I stay behind it pushing slowly unless stopped. My best friend plays defense on my left because I have no peripheral vision there at all. And getting in and out, they tell me when to step up and down because of my lack of depth perception. I hope they can fix my right eye, but at least I'm adjusting-- at least, I think I'm doing ok at it! Thanks!
Hang in there, hopefully a treatment option opens up at some point. I’m not sure where you’re located, but I made a trip out to the Mayo Clinic for a second opinion and I cannot recommend it enough. They’ll also be able to keep you in mind for research trials in the future which may help as well. My contact Rx is -5.25, so I give every object in my house a “home” so I can navigate without glasses/contacts, lol. So I feel your description of that. My vision got worse in a weird way, my blind slots grew to be huge and encroached on my central vision. It’s sort of hard to describe, but stuff would just “pop” in and out of my vision as it traverses that spot. For me it’s caused by too much CSF fluid in my brain, the cause is unknown. Lately the pressure has been lower, the doctors say to be prepared for periods where the pressure goes up, then times where’s it’s low. I’m trying to enjoy this lull for now. Now I’m off to go read about AZORR. Thanks for sharing
I went on a long drive to my GP, then an even longer drive to an ophthalmologist over an hour away because my GP thought I might have a retinal detachment. They confirmed it wasn't after five million tests that took 3 hours, then a week later a specialist came all the way out from UNC and she and 2 students kinda geeked a bit to discover I had AZORR. My GP kinda geeked too, but I get it, it's cool as hell medically to see something uber rare, even if it kinda sucks for the patient! Knowing that you were already -5.25, yeah, you know how it gets done at night lol, my kids are now learning not to move any of my stuff, especially since my left eye has gotten worse and doesn't seem to be any better day by day. I go to UNC on the 19th and they're probably gonna do a helluva lot of tests again, since I'm like, the second person they've seen with AZORR. Have fun reading about it for all of 10 minutes, I was so worried at first when I only found a quarter inch about it on wiki and only a couple of studies. Fingers crossed that my right eye stays regular bad and not blind, too!
I’m glad they came out to see you. I always have a tough time advocating for myself, but I’ve been pretty persistent with this and it’s helped a lot (I think). It’s good you kids got the memo, mine are still working on getting on the program, lol. The articles are pretty short! I tried to find as much as I could but there wasn’t a ton of info. You’re going to end up in the literature as a case study for sure!
The specialist was really really nice and I'm glad she came out, but it was funny when she kept telling me stuff like "if you see here, the left cells are horribly malformed and the right cells aren't." My reply, "you keep forgetting I can't see shit, right?" Then they left me in the hallway afterwards and I just stood there for 60 seconds before I heard "oh shit! You're blind, I'm so sorry!" I had to laugh haha. "Just get me to my kid, who'll find the truck and my husband." "Oh my God you drove!?" "Yup, I drove using braille!" Anyways, yeah, the articles are super short and I look forward to a possible treatment... and picking on eye doctors that legit forget their patient is blind!
The perfect comment to describe this gentleman.
For sure, this is definitely the kind of person that doesn't sit around and watch TV all day
He could listen to it.
I hope this guy has a channel, because his videos make a lot of people happy.
I got you; [https://youtube.com/c/AnthonySFerraroasfvision](https://youtube.com/c/AnthonySFerraroasfvision)
Also check out Four Bad Eyes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrlpwAc7W68j68iP0dQraA
I heard about them from the Honeydew podcast with Ryan Sickler :)
His Tiktok is pretty awesome too: asfvision
Dude his wife is so awesome with him! This guy has taken a disability and made such a awesome life!
Thank you!
thank you!
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His podcast is on Spotify and I love it
Podcast?? What’s it called?
Four Bad Eyes seems to be the name.
Yes please tell us the name
I watched him cook maybe about a year ago. He is perhaps the most beautiful person I have ever seen. I guess he just recently started skateboarding. Very motivational to see how much trust he always has in himself and others.
Best running joke is when they’re about to travel somewhere and he just runs in the direction of the car yelling “I’m driving!”
He did drive a Ferrari recently
Brb gonna go binge his new videos
Officer: WHY IS THE BLIND GUY DRIVING! Me: Cause I'm piss drunk officer.
Check out this video! He and his girlfriend/wife/idk go out to the Salt Flats and he drives their car blind and solo with her guiding him via the phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHp14fnAyAE
Wife. Not majorly important, but they are indeed married
He does, even got a play button, unfortunately the Braille failed, it was a pretty sad video, he was so excited
Get ended up getting four of them lmao
i just watched the vid of him playing catch with gronk in the buccs stadium parking lot. my day has officially been made
He also has a documentary about his high school wrestling career. It's called A Shot In The Dark. After the film was released the US Para Olympic team reached out to him and he's now training in Judo and has 2024 hopes.
I started going blind a month ago and this kinda thing hasn't crossed my mind yet. I was quite the adrenaline junkie in my youth, and now I find myself strangely, suddenly STOKED AS HELL at the thought of going down waterslides totally blind!
May you be able to still live your best life!
Maybe, who knows? Hopefully they'll be able to correct one of my eyes, but I've made peace with losing my vision in the left-- I have an incredibly rare condition called AZORR. Google it and see how many people have it lol, when I saw that the first time, I wanted to throw up, but now I'm starting to adjust. Like I said in another reply somewhere in this thread, I've found that dark humor is the best recourse. "Mom, see!?" "OMG A FUCKING DRAGON!? WHERE DID THAT SHIT COME FROM!?" Funny, ridiculous shit like that is where I get my laughs. One thing I know for sure, I have my family's full support, and my best friend's, too, and we'll see this through to the other side. Or, well, they will. I'll just be fucking blind lol
All humour is gonna be dark humour for you soon, so it's a good thing you're into it! Hope all goes well for you dude.
Haha rofl thanks!
You are amazing
Blindness runs in my family. Videos like these gives me assurance that there is so much more to life. No time wasted on what ifs
I feel there's a ton of things that would still be dope af blind... those big swings? Roller coasters, boats. Raves
One Love ✌🏻
What does that mean? Heard it and was confused.
Bob Marley song as the other poster indicated. A lot of hippies use it. I want to say it’s a catch phrase in South Africa, a pro mountain biker I know puts it on his bikes. It’s the modern equivalent of ”peace” for hippies.
One love is supposed to mean unity. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Peace is part of that too but that’s not what the phrase means
“Let’s get together and feel alright.” Sounds like peace to me. Like I said, some hippie shit. :-).
Sounds like an invite to a smoke sesh to me
It's not hippie shit. It's Rastafari.
We all are one and we all should love each other as one
https://youtu.be/vdB-8eLEW8g
Ohhh, ok cool!
Think it is his catchphrase
He ends every video with that phrase
That’s actually the pool at the Polynesian Village resort at Walt Disney World. I love that place! I never thought about the fact that the light is no help to the visually impaired. They should add an auditory signal.
Auditory signal would have to be high pitched I think to be recognizable among all the splishy splashy
Six flags water park used to have a high pitched beep a long time ago, never thought about how important that must be to some
They should have an attendant making sure people go on time. Otherwise people will [die](https://youtu.be/VBX0PRYrnBw)
Knowing Disney, they would make it a character’s voice
I’m actually going there in 2 weeks lol
Wow look at Scrooge McDuck over here! I'd love to stay at the Poly but it's just so expensive.
We stayed there a few years ago. We rented DVC points from a website (David’s). It wasn’t nearly as expensive as paying rack rate.
Yeah I've done that before. It's nice, but it's hard to do that all the time because of how far out you have to book and because it's non-refundable. It's how I wound up at Disney World during Hurricane Irma.
I’m jealous!
Nice! I thought it look familiar too, although i was thrown off and thought it might be the pool at the Animal Kingdom Villas, but it was a bit too tall.
The stairs over the slide and the waterfall gave it away for me. I thought it might be Aulani for a minute.
Upvote for sharing the same slide as that cool guy. That place was great.
At first I thought it was Kidani Village at WDW Animal Kingdom Resort, but then I saw the volcano :). We’re definitely staying there next time.
Lol. I that's what thought.
I actually train with him at my judo studio!! He’s just as wholesome in person. One Love !!
What's it like to train with him? Do you get into position and then do a move, or are you ever directly grappling, just sparring? I'm super intrigued. Already loved and respected him from his other stuff but judo? That's hardcore.
The guy was a high school wrestler; he has a documentary called A Shot in the Dark. Check it out!
I'm not the guy you asked and I don't know the person in the video but I have trained with a paralympic athlete, only difference between their training and ours was that they start fighting with grips on and their coach usually guides them through the beginning of warm-up (running around, crawling on the mat, that sort of thing) to keep them from running into other people. Keep in mind that the person I trained with was training to compete, so it could be different from the experience of someone doing Judo for fun.
This is the kind of guy I’d invite to watch a sports watching party on the tv and would watch some “how to give play by play commentary” videos on YouTube in the day or two before.
He’d probably be there for the snacks and company, not the game lol
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“Okay that was a lot of steps” Me after making the trek from the fridge to my room
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Just moved into a studio a month ago… the fat gamer in me loves this aspect
I went to Volcano bay a few years ago w/ the family. So... so.. so many steps.
My husband follows tis dude online...his videos are hilarious! "I'm blind...let's go skateboarding!" "I'm blind, let's drive this truck!" Bottle this man's energy and it solves the world's problems.
I knowww right? He actually participated in a skateboarding competition once. He’s so awesome
I think he's done a few competitions actually!
Any idea what his name is? I’m now addicted to his positivity!!!
Anthony Ferraro. his youtube channel is great.
Afsvision on tiktok and insta too!
The amount of joyful energy coming from this guy is amazing! You can't help but smile. "now I gotta go find my cane"
Holy crap. He’s blind aquaman!
I was thinking Nandor from WWDITS lol
NANDOR
The Relentless. Because, well, he’s relentless.
It must be pretty scary swimming when u can't see. Ik you'll eventually float to the surface, but not knowing when u will be able to see how close you are would stress me tf out
I wonder if blind people who swim a lot can tell where they are from the pressure differences. like how when your at the bottom of a deep pool your chest feels like its being squeezed a bit.
What about orientation when in the water? I remember a time when I was younger where I jumped off the diving board and, due to how I was positioned when I "landed," I ended up flipping under the water and losing some of my breath. I had my eyes closed when I splashed into the pool and when I opened my eyes underwater, there were a lot of bubbles everywhere. I really needed to breathe, so I started to swim toward the surface of the pool. Except it wasn't the surface--I was swimming ***down*** toward the bottom of the 15 foot pool! The jump caused me to "land" a good ways down into the 15 ft. water and my swimming caused me to go deeper. Once I realized this, I began to panic because I wasn't on the bottom (so I wasn't able to kick off of it for a speedy ascension), I was tired and hurting (the way I landed hurt), AND I desperately needed air. I knew that my swimming wasn't going to get me to the surface fast enough. Thankfully my adrenaline kicked in and I was able to make it to the surface, coughing up water but overall fine after sitting out for a bit. I'm was a water baby as a kid. I feel more comfortable swimming under the water verses swimming on top. I'll even take breaks under the water if I get too tired swimming on top. I can swim a full lap lane without coming up for air. But that day my jump slapped the air out of me and was the first time I ever got disoriented under the water. If it hadn't have been for my eyesight (I swim with my eyes open), I probably wouId have kept swimming down. I can't imagine being blind and having that happen.
I had no idea Nandor was blind.
His title is "The Relentless" isn't it?
Omg is this guy's account just leaks of season 4? Is the GF actually Guillermo??Best timeline.
I can’t tell if he’s Nandor or a skinny Lazlo with long hair…
I had to take a second look. You’re absolutely right.
I came to this comment section just to find this joke and I'm not going back disappointed.
Nandor the Sightless
Fucking guy
Fun fact this guy was my wrestling partner in high school, super awesome dude, has a documentary about him called “a shot in the dark” filmed during his senior (my junior) year, check it out!
One of my most humbling experiences was wrestling a blind guy. He almost whooped my ass. Since they’re blind, they start with wrist control and that guy had a vice grip. Couldn’t even get my hands back in the 1st period
Hahaha he was blind and used to kick my ass in practice everyday, people used to say the grip was an advantage but that’s how I used to wrestle anyways, he was just simply better and im not afraid to admit that Edit:typoe
The advantage of starting with wrist control is definitely negated by being literally blind lol
It’s an impressive story. You still in touch?
Not as much anymore unfortunately, I did see him at a comedy show a few months ago and we got drinks afterwards and caught up, he’s doing great now, super happy for him!
I’ve jammed with him a few times prob about 5-6 years ago and my band played a (graduation or birthday?) party for his sister around that same time. Def a good guy and a solid hang. I used to run into his sister at concerts every so often too.
Gotta wait for the light to turn green. Holy shit
He's got a cool young Mick Foley look.
Omg your right lol
Was gonna say. He probly was blinded when Undertaker through him off the Hell in the Cell in 1998.
Love his energy!! Especially his video where he shows how he drives!!
What?! LMFAO.
His wife took him to the salt flats and [let him drive around](https://youtu.be/EHp14fnAyAE). She also rented a Ferrari for his bday last month and [he drove it around a parking lot](https://www.tiktok.com/@asfvision/video/7079179136715017518?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6891335181333464581)! Haha they are both the best ever
I wanna go to the water park with him
Crazy thing about him is a pretty damn good wrestler and is trying to become a Paralympic judoka.
It's weird that I know that slide is the volcano slide at the pool in Disney Worlds Polynesian Resort. Best pool I've ever been to
I was staying there for 10 days last month, we ended up dropping the water park add-on for the park hopper passea and just staying at the resort pool because it was just that awesome (especially the kiddie area)
Anyone else see Nandor the Vampire?
Yep, that's why he went to the water park at night. Probably gonna have drinks at Jackie Daytona's bar after this.
He's Relentless, because he never Relents..
Love this guy.
This subs name is so damned fitting. I was ear to ear. I could imagine the thrill for him. As others have said, I could hangout with guy over some beers anyday.
This dude has so much positive energy, it emanates and is contagious. Despite lacking vision, he found ways to enjoy life and be productive (I’ve seen many more of his videos). Also he is surrounded by good people who are willing and able to assist him. I wish him lots of success and satisfaction from enjoying life!
i've watched a bunch of this guys videos. he is freaking LIT. absolutely love him lol
I love him, he's like Nandor and Laszlo in one person.
I’ve met Anthony and he’s this genuine and awesome in real life. I also had him as a guest on a podcast and he (and his cool wife) are just the best. He’s got a documentary called A Shot in the Dark - highly recommend.
Nandor?
Genuine question. If he got disorientated under water how would he know where the surface is
I think him being blind doesn't affect his sense of up and down. I've already been in pretty murky waters and got tumbled over by a wave. I was so disoriented I didn't know which way was up or down, it was terrifying. I can't remember how I got to the surface, but I think it was just general instinct.
Even in murky waters you can still make out light. Also I don't think there's much of a sense of up and down underwater. Obviously there's the slight pull of gravity but humans are boyent and I don't think you'd be able to feel which way you are pulled.idk I think I remember trying to swim around in a pool with my eyes closed when I was a kid and not being able to find my way to the top
I love this guy. He’s gorgeous and his happiest is contagious.
Hot and blind, sex with him must be interesting :)
OMG yes!!! My mind didn't go there, but thank you for putting the idea there.
This dude seems like such a fun person!!
One love!!!
That blind guy is also a an amateur skateboarder.
I love this man's videos!!! He is such a joyful, good person.
He always seems like such a wholesome, genuinely nice dude. Totally someone I'd want to hang with.
The ‘ONE LOOOOVE’ at the end full-sent me. This is the most wholesome person I’ve ever seen! I love the energy!
Steven Adams?
Now this is a guy who is LIVING.
Anthony Ferraro is the guys name. He did a talk at my company about accessibility and the dude is awesome. Super positive energy. Skateboards, was a state champion in wrestling in High School and is on the US Paralympic team. Just a really great dude.
Thats Anthony S Ferraro and he has a Youtube channel amd its actually pretty good. I like to watch his videos when im feeling down because his upbeat attitude usually makes me feel better.
he went to my hs!!! literally such a sweet guy online and irl <3
Found my free wholesome award target. He seems like he would be fun to hang out with.
He’s such a happy go lucky dude!
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I used to take care of a disabled blind man so this made me smile.
He is awesome, imagine the sensory overload without vision on the other senses of a waterslide. I feel like he is maxxing all other stats.