The Dark Realities Of Being Blind
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Yes, you can suddenly go blind overnight.
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Animator: Lena Huang
Writer: Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
Producer: Gabrielle Williott
Illustrator: Winston Rowntree
Based On: www.cracked.com/personal-expe...
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Yup, you really can go blind overnight
01:59 - It's so sudden you don't really have time to panic
03:16 - The government assumes you're an unfit parent
03:56 - Losing your sight overnight doesn't mean your life is over
#blind #interesting - Komedie
Well, I have something new to be anxious about... which is counter-intuitive since stress can make you blind.
I’m a visual artist so that scares the fuck out of me
😂
Just think, you could get run over by a car and live....no need to worry about sight then
@@jakelevinson7802 same 😳
Shit
As someone who has been blind since birth…
One thing I wish you had touched on was how statistically, approximately 70% of blind/visually impaired people are either unemployed or under employed. Can’t tell you how many stories I’ve heard of Blind/Visually impaired people Applying for jobs we are perfectly capable of doing, only to get rejected when the potential employers learn of our blindness; it’s happened to me plenty of times as well.
I’ve also known fellow blind/visually impaired people who have had their children taken from them by social workers simply because of their blindness and have had to fight like hell to get them back, so I’m glad you guys touched on that.
And the whole heightened senses thing? Personally, I think the claim about that happening naturally is false; yeah they’re probably stronger/more acute, but it’s because we learn to use what we have.
Thanks for pointing this out, the statistics about employment are insane and awful to hear. Appreciate your input and all this perspective from someone who has lived through it.
@@cracked what a weirdly clinical reply - was this reply written by a human or automated in some way? I hope it was automated given how detached it is.
@@xBINARYGODx it must be written with chatgpt. It's easier for him, I'd assume
Easier, yes. Kind of messed up, also yes
If you’re referring to my comment, I typed it out myself; I have a screen reader on my iPhone called “Voiceover“ that reads items on the screen out loud to me, including the computer keyboard. Between knowing where all that stuff is and dictating to Siri (punctuation marks and everything,) I am able to post.
I was blinded for less than a day from an UV light. I was in a panic for about 8 hours, until the ER doctor explained it was called welders blindness and I should have my eye sight back the next day. I was so relieved. I can not fathom the strength of the narrator.
As a person with Glaucoma who also suffers from migraines, this is my biggest nightmare, because I one day I could be chilling living my best life with sight and the next it can be gone. I had a scare a few years back and it was not pretty, actually it was terrifying. I'm grateful you're sharing this. One hardly ever hears these sorts of stories, I mean it's always some freak accident or something like that..
All this to say, thanks for creating a resource for us to share and help the people around us understand.
👍
I had a friend with glaucoma. She went into a class lecture (she was 13 and we were transitioning to highschool) and it started storming outside. When she went back out she thought they'd stayed so long it was nighttime. She'd gone blind just like that and hadn't even noticed.
@@availanila sorry to hear that...
Sorry you have glaucoma and live in fear of the lights suddenly going out. I woke up blind as well almost exactly a year ago, but it was from an incredibly rare disease called AZOOR, not glaucoma. Honestly, just being blind is better than living in constant fear of going blind. The fear and paranoia would be worse, at least for me.
@@MegaKat At this point I don't know how I would react to that.. But you are right.. The paranoia is a little too much sometimes.. I'm also sorry you went through it..
@@blu_edic4730 the blind community has a saying: "being blind is easy, going blind is hard."
I think this might be a reasonably appropriate place to mention an app called "be my eyes" it connects volunteers with people with diminished eyesight or blind, using videocalls to help with small tasks, like reading an expiration date, or choosing colors to dress, etc... it can take months until you get a call because there are many volunteers, so I imagine is important to let blind people and their caregivers know about it... I have been able to help both spanish and english speaking people from rany countries (I'm from Costa Rica, so the app is international)
That sounds very helpful, something I'd be happy to do. It's a shame there are not enough people to call back quickly. I can't imagine the inconvenience.
@@valkyrie1066 oh sorry for the misunderstanding... is all the opposite, there are so many volunteers that when a blind person "calls" there a lot of people ready to help, so for them is immediate, is us volunteers who spend weeks or months until our first call :)
Oh that's awesome!
This story went from harrowing, to terrifying to utterly infuriating over the way the social workers treated you at a moment when they should have been doing everything in their power to help you and your daughter. So happy to hear things worked out ok in the end, despite everything. Thank you for sharing.
Tbh the social workers were sort of right to be looking into her fitness as a parent, due to the fact that she, y'know... MASSIVELY risked her child's life and welfare that first morning? A good parent would call an ambulance the INSTANT the realized they were blind, since being blind is *kind* of gonna make it hard to care for your child. What would've happened if her daughter fell down the stairs? Or cut themselves? Or started to choke? Or LITERALLY anything at all went wrong? She should've sought help immediately and had someone look after her daughter while she was at the hospital.
But instead, she WALKED HER CHILD TO SCHOOL WHILE NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE?!?! Let's be honest, that is MASSIVELY irresponsible and the social workers were absolutely right to look into her fitness as a parent.
It is all true about the profession -social workers are blatantly cold and uncaring , power tripping . I’ve seen it on both sides of the desk : working in a social agency and being a client as well.
@@OmegaGamer1989stfu omg overdramatic much
@@OmegaGamer1989 Everybody, get a load of this. Mr Judgey knows all. Everything that can happen.
@@caileach1 Maybe at some places, but I have family members who are social workers and they are caring and exceptional. Bad people exist everywhere - as do good people.
“The dark realities of being blind.”
I see what you did there.
I'm remembering one of the recent visits I've had to visit the optometrist. It was a normal visit--I wear glasses and have since I was a child. This visit ended up being a little different when my doctor **casually brought up** how when you are near sighted (as I am), you have a higher chance of a detached retina. Basically I could get jostled in the head unexpectedly and just loose my vision--it was that simple. I don't know why that doctor decided to share this shit with me, but I've been terrified ever since XD. This is just reupping my new fear of being an artist and going blind. It's very real and fucking wild.
Yeah my doctor was like "if you ever have a sudden pain in your eyes go to the doctor cause your retina probably tore"
Never think that if your worst fears come true that you will lose your artistry. You just might need to find a new medium or technique. I have been blind since age 2 and have done artistic projects my whole life and I know there are still others that are more motivated and thus better than I am in this area. .
he told you to scare you into going to the doctor immediately when something happens to your eye. my dad had a detached retina when he was visiting us in europe and he was on a road trip for a couple of days when he noticed something in his eye, like a little bit loss of vision, he didnt think nothing of it and tried to sleep it off, then it got worse and worse and on day 3 he finally went to the emergency room where they had to do surgery the next day otherwise he would have been blind in that eye.
he ended up losing about 50-60% of his vision and still cant see straight lines out of that eye, if he went sooner they could have preserved 80-95% of the vision. he will probably need a couple more surgeries. so whenever you feel or see something wrong with you eye go immediately! your vision is too important to wait.
@@michellecoleman5577 where did he bring up being an artist?
@@pluspens2134 on the last line of his comment: "This is just reupping my new fear of being an artist and going blind. It's very real and fucking wild."
C'mon dude she is blind and she reads better than you. XD
As someone with terrible eye sight that gets worse every year. This was depressing
My vision is so bad, I am at the limit to what can be corrected with glasses. I have to use the highest refractive material to keep my lenses thin enough to be used in most frames. I am hoping it just holds where it is right now, my last two checkups were basically unchanged; and I don't want to find out what happens after I cross that line. I mean, what to do at that point, laser eye surgery just to get back to being able to correct my vision with glasses?
I see you brothers! Well... not very well but I mean it emotionally!
@@kobaltblueknight have you been to a specialist? An ophthalmologist instead of an optometrist? If you haven't, call your optometrist and get a referral to one, or just Google ophthalmologists near you. Laser surgery may very well be an option for you, and if it is, I hope it goes wonderfully! I'm blind and wish to God they could fix it; I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Same here. I woke up one day in January, almost completely blind, I could only see little spots of light. I had to have surgery and it took me months before I could see again. My biggest fear is this happening permanently.
@@yusrahabdulrazaq2431 I'm just curious because I woke up blind last April, but was told there's no known cause or treatment. I was diagnosed with AZOOR, and only about a hundred people in the world have it, but my symptoms are similar to yours. What was your diagnosis?
I was 14 when I had an accident that permanently damaged my optical nerves. I can still see, though significantly less than before, primarily everything takes a lot more focus and energy and navigating through traffic (as a pedestrian) is a nightmare. I work with a lot of blind people, and while we all agree that there are significant downsides, it is part of who we are. All I want to say is, if you see someone with a cane, even if they 'do not look like they are blind' (trust me, there are many degrees of visual impairments and quite often those are completely invisible from the outside), don't be afraid to offer to help. Yes, one might get angry at you. If you had offered me help back when I was 14 I'd probably have gotten angrier if I actually needed it. The process of accepting what happened and that you need help takes time. And you cannot see how far along someone is in that process. If you are polite, and give someone the choice whether they want your help instead of deciding for them, you're not doing anything wrong. And if someone does want your help, ask them how you can best help them. We're all people with our own quirks and experiences, and what works for one person doesn't necessarily translate to others. Ask, don't assume.
One more reason to enjoy every moment and take nothing for granted.
This happened to my father over time. Unfortunately, it happened to him as he was getting older and he's at the point where he has difficulty doing a lot of the things he used to do on his own. I'm essentially his caretaker now both because of his senior status and because of his total loss of eyesight. He remains in good spirits though, listens to audiobooks and talks on the phone with friends often. Still, it's not something I'd wish on anyone.
Depending on where you live, there should be a local blindness organisation that could help him.
I'm blind and I use my Iphone and pc every day. Because he's older he might not want to get out as much so cane training might not be important but I'd recommend calling and seeing what they say.
This happened to my cousin. Sudden onset blindness, he was hit in the head causing the pressure buildup and death of both optic nerves. He has no kids like this woman but he was already disabled with only 25-50% hearing and had just had a below knee amputation. He was just getting used to his new prosthetic when it happened and it put him right back in the wheelchair. And with the minimal hearing since birth he’d relied heavily on his sight. He used to be a chef and the going from wheelchair to prosthetic was supposed to help get him back in the kitchen. I really need to call and catch up.
Well did you call did you catch up?
That must be one of the scariest things to happen to anyone! I am disabled, I wasn't always. I had an accident which, unbeknownst to me for 10 years, broke two vertebrae, one of which (the one I damn near sit on) will snap of its own accord for no apparent reason - it's been doing it for 44 years. Since then I've developed other conditions (arthritis, lumbar & now total spondylolithesis, amongst other things including medical stuff). Despite being disabled enough to have to have my own to-and-fros with the DWP on more than one occasion, I could usually do _something_ in a day.
Then one day, about 5-6 years ago (I have lost track of time since covid), I ceased being able to stand up for more than about 2 minutes. I fall far more often than I used to - the other night I woke on the bathroom floor; have no recollection of going to the loo at about 3am, and then fell out of bed a couple of hours later. Have an egg-sized lump on my left thigh on the soft tissue. Initially is was an ostrich sized egg. We're down to an emu now. I have gone from being the high school shot putt and discus champion to essentially being bed-bound. At least I didn't hit my head on the side table on the way to the floor this time! There's always a silver lining.
Despite all of that, I still think waking up blind would scare the life out of me. My mother had glaucoma, I'm supposed to have a yearly eye test. I just can't get to the optician. Though amazingly, out of the blue a week or so ago, I got a piece of what I thought was junk mail until I decided to read it for once. It stated that if you cannot get to an optician due to mobility or other such issues, they'll come and do one at home, free of charge (yay for the NHS!). I really must call them... I think I will tomorrow (it's 22:45, so a bit late now).
Thank you for telling your story, it might make all the difference and push me to make such appointments, especially as I have trigeminal neuralgia and my left eyeball always feels like it's going to explode!
Take good care of yourself. I know without doubt you're taking great care of your daughter! And I so empathise with you regarding the grilling. I lost my DLA as it was back then because I picked my 10 month old baby up (I was sitting on her sister's bed for my at-home exam). She was crying and trying to climb up my leg. WTF was I supposed to do!? Yay for tribunals...
I lost sight in my left eye in my late teens, my right eye in my early thirties. Macular Degeneration, it can happen at any age, and you don't lose all your eyesight. I remember sitting in a hotel bar waiting for my family to join me right before a weeklong convention, looking up at a tv and realizing I can't see it. I remember the panic as I looked around and everything was blurry and large gray spots blocked my vision. That happened in 2005 I've had a long time to learn to live a new life and help to cope, most cities have Centers for the Blind, a valuable tool to relearn how to cope with your new situation. It's tough but like she said in the vid, its ok to falter and we will learn to live in the new reality.
This is one of my biggest fears as a type-1 diabetic. I recently woke up with only very blurry sight in one eye but thankfully it was able to be rectified with eye surgery, but still losing my sight is one of my biggest fears.
REALLY extremely glad you touch on the subject of horrible social workers. It something no-one talks about because whom would you believe? The all-benevolent social worker who works for scraps because they just want to help more than have enough money to ever buy something nice for themselves (regardless of how much they actually make, it's quite a lot where I live) or the person who's trying to stop themselves from developing an actual drug problem and is a programme for it?
While I understand why so many people are commenting how this situation is Depressing, I honestly felt Inspired and Uplifted by how she was able to Re-Gain a deeper sense of intimacy with her Daughter and her own Hobbies.
Yes it’s deeply unfortunate that she lost her Vision but it also sounds like she acquired some as well.
Hopefully that Make Sense.
May God Bless her and her Family and thank you for Sharing her Story with this Beautiful Animation
Blood and bloody ashes you god bothers are the worst. She would have found that REGARDLESS. It’s not depressing she went blind it’s disgusting what happened afterwards.
Why do You have to Capitalize certain Words?
I used to always cut my fingers doing the dishes. A blind friend suggested I do what she does, that is, when placing knives into the water, place them point up to the right of the other dishes. then you know where they are, and reach in the bottom corner to pick them up. I wonder how much more "situational awareness" we MISS because we CAN see. Never cut my fingers again. It seemed so obvious once she pointed it out. Once it's out of our sight, we don't know where it is. You have to remember where you put everything, and put it back in the same place. I need to learn that as second nature. Definately learned some life skills I needed because of her advice. I want to learn more about how "disabled" people learn things WE need to use as well. I'm fascinated. Thank you!
My mother was complaining that she had to pay over 370 dollars for eye surgery; after insurance. I sent her this video and said, don't worry about it too much.
“The eye is proof that god exists because it’s so complex.”
Talks about how eyes can easily break.
Richard Dawkins would like a word.
Several years ago, I went through a time when I would lose a bit of my sight each week. At first, I thought it was just from me getting older since I was in my mid 30s, but this went on for several months and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. Eventually, I did get seen by medical professionals, and to make a long saga short, turned out I had both glaucoma and a rare form of fast growing cataract in both eyes. I was able to get some of my sight back through cataract removal surgery. And for now, my glaucoma has been stable with surgery and medication. It was the scariest time of my life, and I would not wish such a thing on my worst enemy.
To everyone freaking out now: the point is the ending, not the beginning. Whatever happens, you can get through it.
That just makes me freak out even more!
"Whatever happens, you can get through it."
Hallmark card bullshit.
Sometimes something bad happens, and your life is over. That's just how it is.
@@aluisious welp, if it’s all over, you won’t know anyway so 🤷🏻♀️
Sometimes bad shit happens, and sometimes you CAN'T get through it.
This happened to my mum! Luckily, she can see well enough with her prescription eye drops, contact lenses and glasses. It’s amazing what doctors can do! I fell very lucky to grow up knowing this stuff as a kid. We had to go to Melbourne a lot for her surgeries, which, as a kid, was fun because we go to travel. We met cool people on the train and at the eye and ear hospital. I love my mum, and thank you for sharing your story with us!
I recently got glaucoma from acute conjunctivitis. I started with red eyes in the morning, felt like my eyes were going to pop out whenever I bent over in the afternoon and saw huge rainbow halos around any light source come the evening.
Thankfully, I went to the pharmacist on my lunch break and got some antibiotic cream and caught it early enough to stop things from getting serious. If I hadn't sought medication so quickly I could have lost my sight overnight.
My advice: if you feel anything odd about your eyes, get them checked out immediately. Don't leave it until tomorrow, or wait and see if it gets worse - it might be too late by then.
I am so happy your life has continued and improved without sight! I hope you and your daughter are very happy!
I've been blind since birth, and glaucoma runs in my family. And I remember losing the rest of my sight at 16. God this story sounds relatable. I'm not a parent, but people kept harassing my mother about her ability to take care of me and my siblings, because they didn't think that a blind woman could properly take care of us. When in reality she had a lot of foresight and insisted that we were taught braille and mobility from a young age, because she knew that we'd all lose our sight eventually. Her persistence paid off, and when I eventually completely lost my sight, I wasn't as caught off guard and taken by surprise as the lady in this story. I was every bit as sad freaked out and frustrated though. Its one thing to know that you'll eventually end up losing your sight, and quite another, when it actually happens. I've had my ups and downs, but all in all, I think I've also gotten stronger in some ways. For instance, I've become a better listener and am a lot more empathetic to the challenges and experiences of others than I used to be. And I'm more observant analytical and critical in my thinking, which has really helped me in my personal life when it comes to evaluating situations and taking action where needed. Which is also useful in my classwork. I wouldn't wish blindness on my worst enemy, but its not the worst thing in the world that can happen to you. Because things could always be worse, and even though I've long since adapted to my situation, and am independent, I still get depressed and upset about my condition sometimes. But all in all, I'd say that my life is mostly pretty happy. As the late great Randy Paush once said: "We can't always control the cards that we are delbt, just how we play the hand."
Very inspirational story! I can't imagine having to go through such a drastic change overnight, and still trying to take care of someone while trying to hide the fact from them!
On another note: You guys animated her driving a car when she was talking about having a headache on the way home, then she says she has never driven a car before? What's up with that?
I noticed this too!
Finally getting the real word out. I'm blind also glaucoma but mine was very gradual it was a mixture of me not doing what I was supposed to do and put my eye drops in and my eyes just being so young they thought they knew better so every surgery they tried my I tried to overcompensate. I still have some trouble vision and still struggle with it and know that eventually it might go completely. It's frustrating and I still have my days where I'm just damn it if I could see 45 freaking minutes I could find this and all this would be done it takes an hour because I can't see anything. I have learned how to redo a lot or do it differently and I'm definitely still learning. I was never a fan of cooking before my vision loss so thankfully my fiance likes to cook I do enjoy baking. I have also gotten into gardening and canning and preserving our Harvest so it helps compensate for high inflation at the grocery store it has taken some time to figure out how I can best do things like that but with lots of trial-and-error and some creative problem-solving I figured it out. With my trusty guide dog at my side I don't worry about going anywhere. My fiance is still very nervous when we decide to go out and about on our own. Blindness is inconvenient and sometimes frustrating but it is not the end of the world you deal with it you learn to live your life the best way you can or you're miserable and guess what you're still blind you're just all so miserable.😊
As an artist the CZcams algorithm is doing a fascinating job with psychologically testing me today. First I see a video of a successful artist that makes art that looks similar to mine, then I see a video of a 12 year old doing Hyper Realism paintings, and now there's this video about how I could go blind overnight. I'd like to say I'm more fascinated than I'm terrified but who knows by this point... Sometimes a gut feeling compels me to picture an abstract outside force poking and prodding me for reactions. If I talk about it then it'll become true; if I don't talk about it then it might never stop. By this point I've resolved to be like the guy in the paintball story from Green Room and just not care if I get hit. I'm going to be misunderstood, underappreciated, forgotten, and eroded into a fictitious taxidermy for others to appreciate at best - and I don't care! I love this! I love you for making me realize this. All I ever needed was to cope! Cope forever! Overdose on cope! You saying I'm coping isn't going to make it any less effective. All I ever needed was me! I love me! I can lose my eyes and ears and tongue and blissfully experience the art of my thoughts because I can appreciate them to their fullest because I am the target demographic! I love my thoughts. I love my senses. It's all art. Everything is bliss.
When I had to do _Zivildienst_ here in Germany, which used to be a mandatory civil-service, I worked at the "Blindenstudienanstalt", the institute for blind studying.
I learned so much there about the visually impaired, like one kid there played basketball, using clicks for echo location.
It gave me a new perspective, and I'm glad I worked there. 😊
Thanks for sharing this touching story. Continue to be strong.
You guys are so wholesome and real. Wonderful content, the world needs this.
I'm near sighted from childhood, and experienced many problems with my eyes getting worse overtime... Floaters, flashes, after images, starburst & halos around all lights, not to mention my glasses prescription getting increased & even cylindrical and axial prescriptions started creeping in...
I think retinal detachment is next & final thing to happen with my eyes, but I'm hopeful that won't happen🙏
I had an aunt that went through something similar, having a horrible migraine and waking up the next day having lost most of her sight in one eye, she was lucky that her other eye was mostly fine. She died just as suddenly some years later, woke up one day and told her husband to go ahead that she'd catch up with him after a shower (I think he took the dog for a walk or something like that), he came back about twenty minutes later to see why she was taking so long and found her dead.
Thank you for this awesome video, it's interesting and informative hearing from a segment of our population that we don't normally hear from and what they go through. Thank you for raising the social consciousness level!❤
A similar thing happened to one of my high school teachers. It was a nightmare for a week or two before she got her vision back. They were able to save the nerves luckily. No lasting damage.
Nice job. I needed That
Wow. Simply wonderful.
All the best to you and yours. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
One of my best friends just had a piece of metal removed from his pupil {cringe!} I didn't realize he never wore protective glasses at work. Now, he has no vision in one eye- and the doctors really don't know if he will get it back.
I was diagnosed with glaucoma last year. It is the slower type, but still scary. I put drops in every night. Going blind is a huge fear for me. I have terrible nearsightedness my whole life- but still took my vision for granted.😢
"I wouldn't wish suddenly going blind on anyone." I always think when people say things like this, or 'I wouldn't wish cancer on my worst enemy,' it's very short-sighted. Think of the good you could do in the world if you could make Putin come down with sudden blindness or cancer!
Long story about my brother in law who one day became unexpectedly blind to follow. Couldn't help but think of him while watching this video:
So about a year ago my brother in law was on top of the world, happy marriage (as far as I knew anyway), wonderful 4 year old son, decent job he was constantly getting promotions in, and a decent apartment. At some point, unbeknownst to my wife and I, his marriage fell apart and I believe began divorce procedures. Shortly after this, also unbeknownst to us, he lost his job, almost certainly a result of the marriage falling apart spilling over into his work life. At that point he couldn't afford his apartment so he moved back in with my mother in law, and unfortunately his ex couldn't afford a place on her own either so she ALSO moved in with my mother in-law so the two of them could continue to parent their son. From what I later learned from my mother in law, he and his ex would argue incessantly, lots of screaming matches during the day, and she only one spare bed room for all 3 of them (him, his ex, and their son) so at night after his son went to sleep, he'd go out and rest in his car parked in front of the house to get away from it all.
Fast forward a few weeks. My brother in law is resting in his car at something like 11 pm at night when a car pulls up right next to his. My brother in law looks out the window to see a shot gun pointed right at him. He instinctively turns his face as the gun is unloaded into his head, tearing off half of his face. The group in the car speed away. My mother in law hears the shot, sees the exploded window, and as she gets closer, the half a head of her son. She calls 911 and they rush him to ER. They save his life but because he lost his job, he has no insurance, so they're left with an insane bill. They also note that while they think he may be able to see again out of his other eye, the eye on the side of the head which took the brunt of the blow has been too damaged to function again. They can't even extract all the shrapnel from it, and let him know that there's some shrapnel in his skull now that's too dangerous to remove even if he could afford it, but it seems non-life threatening for the time being.
Here's the thing, though, the eye which is mostly intact, has never worked very well. Like my wife he has a genetic eye condition I can't spell so I won't even try, but the gist of it is that he was nearly blind in that eye to begin with, he relied entirely on his now destroyed eye to see. So now, in one night, he's got unending migraines from the shrapnel in his eye and skull, he's virtually blind, he's got endless medical bills, no job, stuck living in his mothers house with his ex who hates his guts, trying to take care of a 4 year old boy who doesn't understand any of this.
So what do the police do? Blame him, a black man by the way (I'm white but my wife is also black) for sleeping in a car on the street. Even though my mother n laws house costs literally twice my own, which is to say, they're in a nice neighborhood, apparently the police inform them there's a local gang whose initiation to join the gang is to shoot a black man in the face, so they just write the whole thing off as gang violence and that's the end of it, no further investigation.
For months my brother in law apparently barely left the house, was afraid to go anywhere near cars, let alone his totaled one, but some where along the way he's slowly started to put the pieces of his life back together. He's not there, but he's working again, perhaps more active in his sons life then ever before, and my own daughter, his niece, absolutely adores him and his "unique" one eye'd reconstructed face. He still has terrible migraines, so he's looking to find the money to have a doctor examine if more of the shrapnel can be removed from at least the remanants of his eye, but being blinded hasn't proven to be the death sentence I think he once feared. He even seems to have gotten pretty good at making things out with his formerly bad, now "good" eye. I'm not sure where his financial situation is (I suspect my mother in law helped considerably with his medical bills) but he even got in a car and let his mother in law drive him down to visit us for a day.
I can't even imagine that. Wow. I hope you, him, and the family are doing better bit by bit. Cops can be so disappointing. I was walking home from work at night and this guy in his car asked me for directions. After I pulled them up, I looked up and he was masturbating. I turned the flashlight on my phone and got his plate. He was screaming at me and almost hit me with his car. When i ran inside and called the police, they showed up, sure, but they told me it wasn't looking into because he might have been driving someone else's car or some bullshit. Never even looked into it despite having his plates. So much horseshit. They cared a lot more when I was robbed working at a convenience store. Guess they really do care more about protecting property over people
@@msjkramey During corona lockdowns people would have illegal outdoor parties and get-togethers in my country. A guy I know, who is gay, had to walk home past one of these gatherings and was beat up by a group of drunken assholes, likely because of his sexuality. Some of them even filmed it on their phones.
When he reported this barely an hour later, the cops refused so much as to drive past the location he described, because "no one's even going to be there anymore".
If you can't even trust them to care about a hate crime, a violent assault or even simply enforcing pandemic regulations, what even is their purpose to ordinary people?
They did lock up my black classmate overnight for being drunk in public, though. In a university town. Where the streets are crowded with white drunks every weekend.
That's a horrible story.
As someone who lost thier ability to walk, I use VR as a way to help me still have chances at exploring places without having to worry about the many obstacles that would prevent me from doing such in real life, so losing my sight is one of my worst nightmares because it would be sort of like losing my access to mobility all over again. 💔😢
in 2021 I had my eyes eaten out of my head by an amoeba (acanthamoeba)
going from being a fully sighted person to a 100% blind person in the course of 2 weeks was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life
you really do have to learn how to completely live your life in a different way
I was lucky, I didn't die and I had some vision return though I am still legally blind
this is a very important video and I'm glad you guys have made it
there's a lot of stigma that comes along with losing your eyesight
truly the only thing you can do is put on your happy face and continue to live a life full of love
I didn't go blind but at age 8 went from being able to see to -6.25 in one day. "Mom, I can't read this book/ The letters are fuzzy". Thank you Cracked for sharing some realities. Been holding strong at -6.25 for 35+ years but I'll be ready the next time. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, I am at -3.5 (currently, but have been so since ca. age 28, and am ten years older now), and I see the massive difference whenever I remove my contacts.
@@camelopardalis84 yeah I can't actually focus that close with my contacts in. With them out I can like see every pour on my body. And do fine detail work. I actually enjoy glasses some times because I can see more detail if I need to.
@@withershin So you have myopia but you can see the pores on your body (better?) without contacts?
@@camelopardalis84 yes and better is an understatement. I can see fine detail up close without any corrective lenses but can't see more than a metre away without it being fuzzy. With contacts I can't really see fine detail unless it's very bright but have pretty good vision. It took me years to figure this out.
@@withershin I don't get eyesight. The thing with people with myopia being able to see better up close without glasses/lenses I've heard before, but it still makes no sense to me. I need to check what I can and can't see well/better than with contacts the next time I take them out. (I have ones that you leave in for a whole month uninterrupted because they were made for specifically that, and taking them out every day would mean to risk contaminating them every day. My siblings still don't believe that I am doing what I am supposed to do when I leave them in for one whole month.)
Going blind was always something I was afraid of growing up. I was born without the ability to open my eyes. Luckily, through various surgeries throughout my childhood, I can see fine (though I wear glasses), but I always think about the fact that if I had been born say 100 years ago, I probably would have just been blind.
I even had a bit of a blindness scare after one of my surgeries. When I woke up from the anesthetic, I opened my eyes and couldn't see anything. It was probably the scariest moment of my life. The doctor also didn't know what had caused my blindness either, so I wasn't sure if it was permanent. I found out a day or so later that it was linked to an allergic reactions and my sight returned after a week or two of being blind.
My best friend mother lost her sight in her twenties she is one of the bravest strongest women I've ever met she goes to work comes home on the bus it is nothing she can't do to me in my mind but with that being said I am nowhere near her I would lose my mind
This is a great story and I wish the lady well, but this is pretty different from what I expected on Cracked. I was like oh this might be pretty funny, and then it was just a straightforward story about a horrible thing that can suddenly happen to any of us at any time. Also, it's strange how the daughter doesn't have a British accent lol
Okay so... I used to get headaches that would often cause me to go temporarily blind in my right eye. I haven't had one of those in over a decade, but suddenly I wonder just how close I came to going permanently blind. 😳
Thanks for sharing your story.
That reminds me of "People Watching" that was stellar work that I don't know how didn't gor picked by Adult Swim or something like that!
Same illustrator! Winston Rowntree! One of the most talented people I ever came across.
The fact that the government is actually working actively to rip away from her mother is unconscionable and unacceptable. You're an amazing mother and your daughter will never forget on how you protected and cared for her despite this horrific health diagnosis
Im used to these videos being the most depressing and disturbing thing I hear in a day. This (although somewhat unnerving) was actually quite hopeful.
What a lovely message at the wnd of the video
I love the positive outlook this storie gives even when something happened that is utterly terrifying.
I thing the daughter being there and her having/wanting to be there for the daughter helped set aside the initial shock.
About the cat. I'm the daughter would be happy about a dog as well.
Going blind gave me breathing space to evaluate my life is theb part that scares me the most. What kind of society do we live in.
I am not blind, but I've had an issue with my right eye that was lots of fun. Took ages but I was eventually diagnosed with Map-Dot-Fingerprint dystrophy.
What's it like? Well, a few times a year, I would feel a tiny wee ball of broken glass roll across my eye. It would start irritating before becoming painful as my eye turned tae meat. It was noticed that it would get very hot as well.
Not blinding, but the constant blinking I'd do and the eye watering would make most things impossible for me. Light hurt, and I couldn't focus on anything.
This could last as long as three days. Oh, and the constant pain left me in a state of anger. Fun.
Thankfully I've adapted tae it, my eye weeps a lot more, tae the point it gets a bit puffy, but no pain.
Anyway, this kicked in when I was 27, so it might still happen tae you.
The cat biscuit cereal was hilarious. xD
Much respect to to the narrator... I put of the blue had some strange thing happen where I could "see" the blood vessels in my eyes? Blocked my vision in one eye for months and was too terrified to see a Dr . out of all of the senses I think vision or the loss thereof has got to be the scariest thing to experience
I was born with very poor eyesight (0.05-0.1 vision, both eyes) and I so relate to the 'you have no idea what you are doing but you put on a brave face - oh and you suck at shopping' part.
Another one for my list of irrational fears
I remember this article. It still scares me.
That was touching, funny and scary.
I had coworker that had type 2 diabetes and she not pay attention to her health until she woke up BLIND.
I love this videos
Social workers went from taking away kids from people who abused children in drunken rages to taking away children for any minor reason. There really needs be regulation on what they can and can't do.
I accidentally brushed my teeth with antiseptic cream without being blind. "Hmm. This new toothpaste tastes....not like toothpaste."
This is really sad 😢
I guess i feel less scared. I want to continue writing and making things and i hav ve just been too caught up in the world of sight to focus on understanding things.
If i lost my sight id be doing the same. Helping create a world that only exists in the mind. I feel content now.
Great video! The music was a bit loud in some parts and I couldn't hear her speaking.
This person is heroic
I’ve got a few more months until I’m in your boat. Thanks for this.
wild.. i woke up with extreme eye issues following a stroke. respect to narrator
Unexpected this was frightening.
Well that’s a new fear unlocked. Thanks internet.
I have angle closure glaucoma aswell, 2 years after treatment, 90% loss on left 50% on right
One thing I find interesting, but I've never seen proper statistics on, is how the rate of disabilities such as blindness has changed over the last century or two, adjusting for aging. Historically, there were many causes of blindness that are now much rarer, especially in developed countries, such as trauma (service-based economies and workplace safety laws have worked miracles...) and childhood meningitis. Glaucoma and other diseases can also be treated much more effectively than before, although obviously incurable and genetic cases like the one in this video still exist.
I would assume that a much smaller proportion of under-65s are blind in 2023 than in 1923, but it's something I'd love to quantify.
Kind of funny/weird choice not to say at loud the transition text between each part of the video. Dear editor, maybe keep that in mind or ask the blind community for feedback. Sending love. Thanks for sharing your story. 😊
OD'ed on promethazine by the tens of multiples and in the following days I was blind - everything was blurry and everything around the edges was completely dark, I couldn't get out of bed for a few days, especially because I lived alone and couldn't contact anyone. Safe to say, blindness can be terrifying
I thought the art style looked like Subnormality... "Illustrator: Winston Rowntree" hell yeah 😁
Winston is the best. It's always an honor to write for something he provides art for.
talk about timing... I just lost partial peripheral vision and last night this was 1st up. first thing this morning before the office opened was my "urgent" appointment (there is no such thing as "emergent" apparently unless you have a shard of glass sticking out of your eye.... mine had no headache, just woke up.... high high sky high blood pressure is the cause. Ischemic Optic Neropathy.
Jesus Christ that's harrowing!!!!! Although I have no clue what you experienced, I have so much sympathy for you
You are an inspiration nonetheless!!!!!
I’m terrified of life even as a sighted person. I have no idea what I’d do if I lost my vision.
Thanks
The title of the video is 10 out of 10😂😅
I often panic and feel blind that we are so limited by our vision
Jesus christ.... Thats really scary 😰
Well, I just got a new glasses prescription, and one of the things they check for is glaucoma (had an uncle who was blind because of it), but luckily nothing........early cataracts, though, so.....Yay? 😅
I lost in one my eyes. If i lose the other I'll just kms
I can totally relate.
I got my Face kicked by a guy after he sucker Punch me.
My retina in my right eye detached.
And yes it took me a long time to learn all over again to adjust to only having one eye.
What I find strange but very much how How I am able to see things and people so differently.
Hope you can be happy.
„the dark realities” - I see what you did there!
Does it occur even with sinus headaches and facial pressure? I feel my eyes are stuffed and some liquid is gushing up with force.
New Fear Unlocked: Sleeping with a headache
she is pretty amazing.
I will sleep well tonight.... NOT
The ending his sweet, but I still have a new phobia now!
> Eyes are proof God exist
> Retinas are on backwards blocking the most important part of your vision and your brain just kinda makes shit up to fill it in
Math checks out
As this is my worst nightmare a lot of the time at night I practice what it’s be like to be blind to not turn on the lights. I already have terrible night vision so even if the lights off I can’t see anything. I just want to face it n feel used to it just in case it came on suddenly from an accident
I’m an artist so losing my eyesight would mean uni wouldn’t be able to make art the same way, prob would start doing more sculptures instead of drawing comics.
Life itself is tough... just remember something I learned a long time ago. Anticipation always outweighs the event or outcome...
"Just point the car where you want it to go and don't die."
Of course, why didn't I think of that.
Why is the music so loud in this at parts that it almost drowns out the words?