@@cheerychury because that’s what I’m going through right now I lost eye sight in my right eye do to a retina detachment and was very close to the other side doing the same thing all I was trying to say was count yourselves lucky you have both eyes I didn’t try to force that on them
@@Error-2156-X I am sorry for your tragedy but no one asked to hear about that! We understand you have went through a pretty rough time with that, however you could have just written a completely new comment to post this. They never said anything even related to your issue and quite frankly you are being rude even trying to trauma dump on a CZcams comment section! 😦
This kind of videos need to be shared more. I found many people that still think that blindness means that the affected people can't see anything (pitch black) and posted something like "this is fake/that person is lying, that person's gesture show that he/shr can see the things in front of him/her" etc.
I felt this, I got hospitalized really bad at one point. Where I had heart drain done in an emergency, and 2 lung drains. Battled ammonia, sepsis, blood poisoning, left the hospital with my life, but at the cost of my right eye. It’s blurry, I can see out of the edges of the eye, but I can’t really use it. I got surgery done to scrap dead tissue from it (found out blood drained into my eye and couldn’t leave due to abnormal tissue growing on the veins from being a diabetic) even with looking after yourself. Sometimes the cards aren’t in your hands. Fast forward 5 months, I caught a extension ladder that folds to the side of the head and ended up getting a ruptured ear drum, and now my left one is damaged next, I got an injection last month, surgery on the 25th to hopefully save it, but cherish your vision everyone. I’m scared for the day to come where I can’t protect my family. Or see what they look like
I met a girl in college who was legally blind and wore super thick glasses. That was the first time I ever heard of night-blindness. With her glasses, she could see just enough to get around in the daylight, but at night, forget it. I didn’t fully understand how bad it was until she admitted she was afraid to go out at night because she can’t see anything; we had invited her along with us somewhere, and she said we would need to guide her by the hand and warn her about hazards like curbs and tree roots.
I got my first aura migraine at the age of 10 and my god did it freak me out. There were spots blocking my vision and I literally couldn’t see in front of me, only my peripheral vision was unaffected. I was at school and it just wouldn’t go away, I thought I was going blind or something! I suffered from aura migraines for extended periods of time throughout my early teens, so much so that I was missing school. I was dizzy, nauseous, and pretty much bedridden during those days since I couldn’t see anything in front of me. It was so frustrating, and I’m so glad I’ve gotten some relief from them. Sight truly is a gift.
note to believers: We should thank our creator for giving us sight, hearing , and makes our heart beats every second.. all this life and its ailment, hardship, will appear as short as an afternoon in Day of Judgement, and these hardship when dealt with patience is hugely compensated in the next life that healthy one once see the gift they receive, will wish to have had that ailment because of the generosity of our Creator.
Dear Pop, 1. Science explain the "how" not the why. 2. Lying to oneself won't give comfort. If you are poor try to believe "I am wealthy I am rich" see if that comfort you. "Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah " and then remained on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], "Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised." Quran 41-30. This is one of many promises to the believer in the One true God. We feel it, when we are closer to Him, and lose that peace when we become far are from Him. So lying to oneself won't comfort anyone.
@@poppachoppa8956 in contrast turning your back on your creator will make you gradually unhappy, the more you mature and know the more you lose contentment. Haven't you heard many rich or famous people saying "I have everything yet I am not happy" some even commit suicide.. " And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind.” and then " He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?" God will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus this Day will you be forgotten."(Quran 20, from 124 to 126), It is blessing in disguise for some because depression is a sign to seek other alternative, to look for the truth and reconnict to God. Popp in case you one day you feel depressed with no apparent cause you know how to combat it.. though I pray that Guide you, and all of us. amin. Have a great day. PS : to see if it is a lie say "My creator , if you exist, guide me to your path, if you have any. Amin" if yo are sincere to know the truth despite your desire to sin, you will be answered for sure.. so it is utterly easy to see the truth.. but if yo say it for fun, you may not get an answer... because God knows the heart of his servants. So it is easy to test it.. and if you are sincere you will be in tears of joy, answer may come in many forms .. ask I add to it (don't want to write that long) few people read this anyways. peace
Exactly 👍 I am half deaf, I only hear with one ear. It doesn't sound like much but I can make life hard sometimes. I envy everyone with a normal audition
Having good and healthy sight is such a blessing. People take ot for granted. Its something to cherish and appreciate every day you wake up and open your eyes!
As someone with multiple sclerosis, this video is actually encouraging. Visions good now but its nice to know that if my visions goes at least i could maybe still have some vision
Even people who are 100% blind often see patterns of fractals and swirling colors, and light. This is because there's no information reaching the brain since the eyes are dead, so the optic nerve kind of panics and invents visual stimuli in an attempt to compensate.
When I worked as a traffic inspector, one of the things I enjoyed the most was that I was getting paid to help blind folks cross busy streets, we'd walk nice and slow, and they would talk to me about their condition along the way. I once managed to stop the whole transit so a stray dog could cross. It was nice that the dog actually waited for my signal. It was such a great job, too bad it was almost 70hs/week.
damn, that's a shame you had to leave a job you enjoyed, because they scheduled you too many hours. i hope you found a new job that's is just as rewarding, and hours that are more reasonable
@@user-cu1uj6bl3rthe number of industries where these sorts of hours are expected just boggles my mind. It doesn't make sense to me the vast majority of the time. And then, the companies that expect this whether or not it's industry standard, just bonkers. No wonder there are so many people with sleep issues, and so many depressed and exhausted adults who have almost no time to themselves.
i always tell my sisters to be grateful and cherish their eyesight. we’re so lucky and blessed to be able to see our beautiful world and all of its features. i never take it for granted
I'm 18 and have a degenerative eye condition and i just want to say i really appreciate this video. Visual impairments are so very misunderstood by pretty much everyone, and it's nice to know people are trying to spread this information. Going blind is very difficult, and all the social neglect and ostracization has nearly broken me at this point, seeing this makes me feel a small bit better.
Yeah, my visions been getting worse too. You’re not alone just never give up maybe there’ll be a cure sometime in our lifetime. We’re both still 18 we’ve got a whole life ahead of us!
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in my 20's and because of the surgery to remove a lot of it, I lost vision in one of my eyes. It's now black like the first example because my optic nerve cells died. I am immensely grateful I can still see out of the other one. ❤ This video was helpful to see how blindness in others is not like the blackness I experience.
I had an AVM rupture in my brain and lost half of my vision in each eye during surgery. it’s weird how the brain works and how you can have many possibilities of what can happen to your eyes. 💕
Man it sucks I'm far sighted but having to wear glasses is like a burden, the sulky thing is I wasn't blind to begin with it crept up on me as I got older
@@blackmusictitles2271Being farsighted is not the same as being blind. I'm nearsighted and I'm not blind, I wear contacts and I see perfectly with them, even better than most people with nothing. If your vision can be corrected, you aren't blind.
Whilst studying an art degree at university I did a whole project on disabilities n created loads of glasses for people to wear, recreating different eye conditions. I mainly did it as they never have any to show my visual impairment, which is a left sided hemianopia. I’m blind on the left side of both eyes. Those glasses I made are the ones everyone found the most disorientating
I love that! I'm curious though, so how does your brain handle the lack of information? Does your vision just go black on the left like you're halfway behind a wall, or something else? I hope that doesn't seem rude. I'm just curious about how you see the world as opposed to how I see it. I had no idea until adulthood that I have astigmatism in both eyes, but they go in totally different directions. I also have chronic migraines which causes worsening blurriness and double vision. I'm deep in a migraine right now and I'm struggling with my phone keyboard. I honestly miss the old cell phones with physical buttons because I didn't have to look to type.
@@devincetee5335at that point you'd just be cutting your nose out of view which your brain usually does automatically (except now since you're thinking about it)
Going blind and/or deaf is one of my biggest fears. I am very slowly going deaf from an undiagnosed condition, but I think it would be scarier to be going blind, up until seeing this video I truly took my sight for granted. If any single one of these things ever happened I would be straight down to the optometrist or my doctor to find a way to fix it, my sight is everything to me as it is to a lot of other people
I am legally blind from birth. I have almost no vision in my right eye. Still, I can walk around my own home like I'm not blind at all. There are many ways to be blind. And if you are going blind, there is a lot of help out there for you.
I don’t think I’m blind by one I works not well like my other eye one, I can see good out of the other I can’t. It depends on the lighting and depends if I just woke up or not it depends on the surroundings.
@HowDoIPlayAgain I am legally blind from my understanding this means is that I am eligible for Special support. In my case, this meant availability to special lessons. To help me learn how to navigate and do things. The availablity to access the Library of Congress and barrow books on tape large print or brail books. When I was in school. It often meant that I got extra help with certain things. Like extra time on tests. Help with assignments help with reading. Help navigating my school. As an adult, I have access to blind canes And I am found disabled enough to receive governmental help. Basically, I'm blind enough that I'm truly disabled.
my grandmother has macular degeneration. i never realized how bad it could be and this really made me feel so much gratefulness. i think ima go call my grandma now and tell her i love her…
my husband's mom has it and she has to get shots in her eyeballs every 2 months in hopes it doesn't get worse. I am really scared one day my husband will get it because his grandfather on that side had it too. what a terrible gene to have
I started wearing glasses when I was 8 years old and my eyesight got progressively worse until I reached -5.25 dioptries on both eyes by the time I was 25 and I just couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't even see a person next to me clearly when talking to them so I went and had a lasik operation last year. I have to tell you it was the best investment of my life. My eyesight got progressively better and better with every single day and I just started appreciating the world around me more than ever before. I've got tears in my eyes just thinking about those first moments when I was walking down the historic center of my city and all those old buildings and statues were so clear. I'm so happy I went for it and I have a huge appreciation for blind people that can live their lives despite being blind. I don't think I could handle it.
Same here but a little worse. I always encourage others to get LASIK if possible. Best money ever spent and I'm sure we would've done it earlier knowing how it feels
Last year I was really hopeful for getting lasik because my eyesight was getting progressively worse. Thankfully I went to see an ophthalmologist first and they found out the reason for my sudden vision losss was keratoconus and I could've lost my eyesight if I had lasik done since one of the corneas is too thin and fragile. I got crosslinking instead and those I didn't get better eyesight, it has stopped the keratoconus formation
Thank you for the education! I knew some timy bit of this information but have never experienced the examples nor known of some of the possibilities shown here, much appreciated!
My brother is one of the rare ones where he can't see anything whatsoever. When he was getting a routine check in, the examiner shone a light in his eye and said "can you see that?" to which he said yes. As the examiner put down the flashlight to write it down my mum rolled her eyes and said, "how about now?" to which my bro replied "yes." The doctor then sheepishly started crossing out what she had just written😆 Edit: No, he wasn't pranking her, he was just quite young and literally has no idea what 'seeing' actually means since he's never experienced it. He was just flipping a coin 😆
Man, I have the cataract level vision and I'm not even diagnosed with it. All I know is that my glasses are about as thick as an armored car's windshield.
We had These glasses when working in elderly care, with 25kg waightsuit while trying to go up stairs. This was to imagine how some people feel, it helped me get another perspective.
yesterday i went to an opthalmologist and he made a quick work telling me my vision is well being 20/20, you have no idea how blessed I feel after seeing this.
I'm so glad that you can still see colour if you're blind (mostly). One of my worst fears is going blind but knowing that if I do I can probably still see blobs of colours eases my worries
My mom was legally blind with 20/800 vision. For those that may not know, that means that she saw from 20 yards what a person with 20/20 vision saw from 800 yards. She always attributed it to being in an incubator when she was born premature in 1952, and despite the ridiculously thick glasses she wore for most of her life, she was always happy to be alive, and for the technology that gave her sight. She developed cataracts and in 2011 she was able to have cataract surgery where they replaced her lenses with a permanent prescription, which allowed for her to ditch the glasses for the first time in her life. She passed in 2022, but she woke up every day for 11 years thankfully for the new gift of sight she was granted late in life.
(I don't see my comment anymore but I'm gonna assume CZcams just glitched it for the moment). So to sum it up, she had built in binoculars that she could disable by putting on her glasses, then her vision was affected by common blindness which was then fixed.
😢😢. My mum died in 1991... the technology wasn't that advanced, and she hated the glasses I got her in 1990 cos the lenses were thick and she'd got used to not seeking properly 😢
@@uniwolfgamer1094that doesn't mean she had good vision at distance, it means an object at 20ft to her would be as blurry as an object at 800ft for an average person
Yes, I love that you made this video. I have a cataract in my right eye, and so many people ask me questions about what it is to be legally blind. This kind of gives them a visual of what people with blindness see.
I was born with a cataract in my right eye so I was born blind and had to slowly get my vision back some what it’s been hard to do so but it also comes with some fun
I have cataract as well in my left eye, once had surgery when still elementary school but it wasn't get any better. I can confirm the view is indeed blur, but not smoothly blurred, more like pixelated blur in my case. Glad my righty is doing okay until now.
So you really see with you right eye like that? How do you see in 3D with this ? Are you tired with your "normal" eye by the end if the days? I'm sorry i didn't have glasses or problem with my eyes BUT i wanna understand more people with disability. I apologies if it's offensive
As a kid I went to a birthday party mall trip where the birthday girl’s mom and I were the only two not legally blind. I learned quickly that there are different types and levels of blindness even in our small group. At one point I passed a rose embroidered hat to one girl cause I thought the tactile nature of the stitching would be interesting to her and was surprised to learn she was able to look at the pattern when she held it up close. We all went bowling afterwards and had a great time :)
@@Meg_A_Byte it was! I don’t remember what the scores were at the end of the night, but we had a slide thing to help roll the ball for some, so everyone did relatively well. I tried fried pickles for the very first time there :)
Had a friend in highschool go blind from brain cancer (he's 5+ yrs free now), he can see shades of blue well so I always make sure we all wear blue if we go out so he can find us easier if seperated.
For my experience, I had MOGAD a few years back. It is basically anti-body cells attacking each other, and it caused one of my eyes to look like cracked frosted glass. It's painful to move too.
Theres also a common phenomenon called "blindsight". People are nearly 100% blind can still sometimes react to something thrown at them or moving fast infront of them, because even though their visual cortex never receives the information, the reactionary nerves that connect directly to the muscles *do*. They will impulsively flinch without even really understanding why.
It's nice to see this video. Two years ago, my grandmother suffered from cataracts that she had surgically removed. Two years later, and now she's suffering from macular degeneration. It's nice to know how she sees.
i’ve had cataract for as long as i remember but i was diagnosed with it at the age of 8, and its really crazy cuz since i was little i thought that this was just how the world was and thats how everyone sees it, but once my mom caught up on to it and i started wearing glasses it was like everything was new to me! i started seeing details and clear colors instead of shapes and colors only! i literally remember the day after i started wearing glasses when i was going to school i noticed that the side road with small black rocks that my mom always parks on is actually not just a pitch black ground!! i still remember the feeling of happiness and shock as i saw the details of every small rock just laying underneath me! i was amused that i shouted to my mother “ I CAN SEE THE GROUND” and she bursted down in tears thinking that it was her fault that she didnt notice my eyes earlier because i have always shown signs even years before, like my mom picking me up from school and when i go out and she waves at me from the car expecting me to run to her all smiley and happy just like all the other kids i would look at her and continue looking at people beside her like i dont recognize her until she screams my name and i finally realize that this is my mom, i would always trip and scrape my knee in very bad ways and i would hit things that were obviously there. i never payed attention in class when i was little because i wasnt seeing anything on the board since i liked sitting far in the back not knowing i had bad eyesight and the teachers always complained to my mom about me not concentrating. its a struggle to say the least. even 12 years later i always have this thought that im slowly losing more eyesight as im getting older and im gonna be blind someday it really scares me.. i dont want that.. even the thought of it makes me sad.. but thats life isn’t it? god gives and god takes. i still have things that alot of people dont have, so im grateful for those. and im always grateful for my mother and i hope she never thinks that its her fault. thanks for reading stranger☺️🤍.
One problem with glaucoma is that you don't notice it. Your brain attempts to figure out what is in the parts of the field of vision where you can't see, and shows you a complete vision. A collegue of mine only discovered that he has big holes in his field of vision when a car suddenly appeared out of nowhere right in front of him.
@@uzijn In my case it was detected before any real damage was done because I get my eyes checked every year due to my diabetes. Regular checkups is the only way.
Wow I get mad even when my glasses have a spec of dirt on them and get annoyed everytime I have to wipe them. People with these conditions have got my respect ❤
How do you even see the dirt? - fellow glasses user (nearsighted) If I had to explain how I don't notice the dirt, I'd point to the microwave. You can see the food inside and when you focus on that, you don't notice the netting.
@@AverageConsumer-uj8sm Dirt on glasses with a correction for astigmatism is very annoying (like rather not wear glasses and don’t see shit type of annoying).
I got a little panicky watching this. I really felt like I was experiencing each disease and it made me really anxious. So blessed to have healthy vision.
wanna cry so bad after seeing this 😭 my father was diagnosed with the diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and cataract at the same time. May God bless him 🥲
As an optician, I work a lot with these cases. Thanks for explaining this. The amount of patients I get that are totally panicked at a diagnosis bc they think they'll have total vision loss is very sad. A lot of these cases are totally treatable.
I have a blind friend who describes it in an interesting way. He says it isn’t black, there is just nothing there. For example, if I asked you to tell me what you see behind you without turning around, it wouldn’t be black, it would just be nothing.
We tend to interpret black as a color, but it isn't, black is the lack of light, it really is nothingness. If you were in an entirely dark room for days, soon you'll stop "seeing black", as your brain would start interpreting it as what it really is, nothing.
@@TylerdaSilva94 En soit les yeux fermee en plain jour on vois la lumière a travers la paupière ducoup c'est ni noir ni rien et je pence qu'on poura jamais savoir se que cela fait de ne voir rien a part si on devien aveugle
@@Joeythenoey It isn't there. It's incomprehensible. Try to imagine you have an extra sense like being able to feel electricity far from your body. You can't actually sense it, but it inst that you sense 0 electricity, it's that this isn't even a thing.
I had optic nerve swelling caused a case of pseudotumor cerebri at age 18. I went temporary blind for about 5 months and I only could described it to people as looking through the fog… but now I see it was similar to cataracts. Being blind has really redefine the definition of blindness for me early in life.
It gets even more complicated than this. I've got sensory processing problems with my vision and so, I see mostly perfectly, except objects in my view just don't always render. The best way to really get it is to play a '90s era 3d video game especially a racing game or some flight simulators and watch the visual pop up as things just appear out of nowhere, It's usually not that bad, and other things at the same distance will be there, but it's a decent example.
I had a deaf classmate once and I was asking her about it and she said it was hard to describe, so I asked if it was like blurriness but for your ears and she said thats exactly what it sounds like. She could hear the sounds and their tones and pitches, but she couldn't see the details very well. Edit: holy crap how is this getting so many likes-
Hiya I’m over here in England watching this, I suffer from something called stargarts a very rare form of macular degeneration, not so dissimilar to the last example shown here. I also get double vision and suffer from huge headaches when it’s very sunny.. fortunately been an Englishman in England that last one doesn’t happen too often. Using speech to text on an iPad to make this comment…..God Bless… stay strong everyone.
My uncle has described his blindness as to being more akin to closing your eyes. Sure, you can't see for jackshit, but if you stare at the sun, you're still gonna see light.
@@iamboxboynooneelseisboxboy I thought it was like trying to see out of your foot- not even darkness, just nothing- kind of a similar analogy. After this video I’m not sure if it’s true, though.
I think there's a name for that type of blindness, something about only seeing light degrees but not details or colour. So people with that kind of blindness have to wear sunglasses in winter because the snow reflects the sun too much.
A friend of our family who became blind in his later years said it was was more like an endless grey mist, he couldn't see anything at all but it wasn't dark. In fact he said that when he first became blind he had trouble sleeping because it was always a bit too bright.
I used to play squash when I was 12. One day I was playing a match against my friend and he accidentally hit the squash ball directly in my eye. I closed my eye and it started hurting terribly, when I opened it, my vision was exactly like diabetic retinothropy (the first one) it was only for a few seconds, but I’m grateful that I didn’t lose my vision
I got a temporary issue with my eye once due to a migraine, that was the first time where I truly understood what seeing "nothing" is like. A splotch in my vision that was just gone, not black, just gone. It's insane that you can't comprehend that nothing until you truly "see" it.
yeah this has also happened to me with migraines, i would slowly move my hand from where i could still see it to where i couldnt and it was very strange watching my hand somehow just sort of fade away into nothingness
Same club The first experience was so scary! Because my _grau ocular_ (don't know the correct translation for this) is so high, I was afraid my vision was a goner
I had that three times. Scary as fuck. For me it starts with a portion of my vision to the right of center just disappearing. If I were to look at someone putting their nose around the center of my vision, their left eye would look like it didn't exist, like it was just skin. Then my peripheral vision starts going bad, looks like a zebra pattern of black and silver, and one of the times it happened, it was a dull gray. Then after an hour I have to deal with a really strong headache that only affects the left side of my head and the most painful spot is around my orbital bone. It scares me because the three times it happened I thought it could have been a stroke. Thankfully it was just a migraine and my vision came back to normal everytime.
Sometimes when my sinuses get super congested, the vision in my right eye becomes pure white due to the pressure (kind of like rubbing your eye to see colors). It also has a weird effect where I can only read every other letter of a book. Super annoying.
I am blind and thankful for this video spreading awareness. At 26 I lost all central vision due to a disease called NMO (that also left me paralyzed for 6 months) I can no longer feel my legs, however I have regained my ability to walk and am so grateful. Sadly, I will never get my vision back. It was really wild. One day I’m working as a nurse, then next I’m being rushed to Wills Eye hospital and will never work, drive, or see people faces again. I can still see a little bit peripherally (out of tr corner of my eye) but it’s very blurry and the rest of my sight is nothingness. I am thankful this video is spreading awareness that not all of us who are blind see total darkness. Thank you!
Dang girl! I'm glad I read that but I am very sorry for your experience. I really appreciate hearing part of your story, and I hate that you have had to go through this. If you don't mind, I will make an effort to appreciate my own good health "so far" in honor of Tracy Rose and the horrible bad luck that you had? You must be a strong person to take all that as well as you have,I couldn't imagine how hard that would be! I've went to sleep in pain before and when I woke,I couldn't feel my legs at all, but the docs were able to fix it within hours,and I was a panicking mess! I'm glad you are walking, I truly hope it doesn't get worse and only improves from now on. I wish you the very best, and will pray for you, and I don't really pray but will try. Thanks again for sharing that. Hang in there,You got this!
that fucking sucks man, i have permanent acute optic neuritis in my left eye and they gave me a specific blood test for NMO, it was absolutely scary. i hope you live a long and fulfilling life despite that debilitating disease
My neighbor, who’s a sweet 94-year-old man has macular degeneration and he tells me all the time I know you’re beautiful, even though I can’t see you. Makes me cry every time.
I would like to specify as well that most people with blind spots don’t know that they have blind spots. They don’t see black either, rather the spot is just missing from their vision. And, the two eyes can work together to fill in some of the missing pieces, albeit distorted or incompletely. Plus, it usually comes on gradually so it’s harder to notice. Unless they have had a stroke or another trauma to the eye that causes sudden vision changes, it’s way more difficult to detect. That’s why it’s so scary because most people believe they are fine because they are unaware of what they are missing.
As someone with blurry vision almost like cataract but a bit more clearer, I can’t read words or see people faces well but I still see what items I’m holding and stuff, I have -2.7 vision and it’s hard to stay off the phone especially in the dark because it’s such an addiction and I really hope I can get more things to keep me distracted like a summer vacation
I am legally blind in 1 eye due to eye cancer & the related surgery. I am 60 years old & had the surgery 10 years ago, had perfect vision for close to 50 years. I too appreciate my 1 eye more today than the 2 I took for granted.
I'm Glad to hear that you still have good vision in 1 eye.I agree;It's nice to have had good vision in our younger years.I'm also 60.I Just got diagnosed with Corneal Edema.Kinda like waking up with cataracts,except my vision clears up throughout the day(most days).Still sucks though.☹
It is similar in Turkey aswell. They say that they can do it only once so they wait for it to grow to its worse state before it is done to save you the most time in the future
I had a friend who was not born blind, but went blind by in infection in her spinal cord and it affected her vision. For her, she said that it's like walking in bathroom and someone turned the shower on and it's really steamy! she can make out certain colors and shapes, but has a service dog who helps her! She is brilliant and is going to get her Masters soon!
Sounds like she has optic neuritis like me. I have multiple sclerosis, and optic neuritis is a common first symptom. I've got lesions on my brain and spine. Inflamed optical nerves result in the steamy/foggy vision. This happened overnight, always appreciate being in good health, it can change in an instant.
I’ve seen some videos where people swear the blind person can see, and they would most likely be right but not in the way they think. This video needs to be spread more!
In 2020 when Covid was bad. I was having strange symptoms, especially with my eyes, things got blurry for me, and at one point it was so bad that I couldn’t make out people or things everything looked like blurred blobs. It started when I could see the scores on basketball games on a 75inch tv about 7 feet away from me. I tried getting an appointment with my doctor in April 2020, but the nearest available was December 7th 2020. It got somewhat better and couldn’t wait to see my doctor. December 4th 2020 I would be found on the floor unresponsive, breathing weird and vomit all around me. My dad found me called 911. I was brought to the ER ICU in a coma. I was going through DKA, and had a glucose number of 1,510 which is fatal. By the time my appointment would come, I was in the ICU again in a coma. I woke up 5 days later. I’m glad my dad found me or I would’ve died. What sucks is my vision was better, but exactly the same day they released me my vision went bad again, I couldn’t read or see my phone unless I put it 2 inches from my face. Take care of your self guys. Diabetes is no joke also diabetic retinopathy ❤ I have a friend from church and his brother is completely blind now because of his diabetes.
Thank you for teaching those that don't understand. I get assumed full blind all the time and then when I use a lot of blind techniques (touch, smell, vibration, memory ECT) they think it means I'm lying....I MISS my full sight. I wish it was only a lie. Thanks for educating people.
One of my friends woke up one day nearly blind; the night prior, he could see completely fine. Within months he was completely blind in both eyes at 21. Hold gratefulness in your heart every day, count your blessings
@@mariuszmoraw3571 Very rare condition, not 100% sure what it’s called off the top. Scared our entire friend group shitless, we all gained a new perspective on life. We spent his last few months with vision travelling the world with him :)
@@mariuszmoraw3571 Just asked him, he said his blood pressure got incredibly high in his sleep. His doctor said that it rising that high and not getting treated for hours (he was sleeping, so didn’t feel any side effects that would have prompted him to go to the hospital) severely damaged his retinas :( he never had any issues with blood pressure previously, it literally happened out of nowhere
This is how I went blind too. I woke up in the night and realized I was not able to see out of my right eye. I had surgery the next day to save some sight in my other eye but have only about 5% sight in my good eye. It’s a tough adjustment for sure but it is doable and I have found so many ways to cope. Sometimes it just takes patience and calmness because the frustration is the worst part for sure. But whatever bit of sight you have is a great benefit and you have to learn to use it and persevere.
Thank you, I am visually impaired most due to my nystagmus, and many other things too. Through it’s hard to explain how terrible my eyesight is and that glasses don’t really fix it to people, because they think it’s all or nothing. And even with my visual impairness affects my day to day life, I am still not legally blind, even though I am not allowed to drive and do many jobs. I think it’s terrible and the visually impaired community don’t get the needs we need because we are “not blind enough.” We need to be heard and we need society to listen!
It's ridiculous to me that we can be considered too blind to drive or work but not blind enough to receive any sort of assistance. Disability determinations are supposed to be determined by function and impact on ADLs, not an arbitrary number that's far past the point most people can't function.
I have uveitis. I have lost most of my vision in my 20s, got some back in my 30s, and it's better in my 40s I still can't drive. I am super sensitive to light. My vision loss is caused by Lupus. My vision can change day to day. It's like looking though a thin white t-shirt and on good days glasses can give me 20/200 vision.
@feistsorcerer2251 I was sent by Doris Stein Eye Institute to start learning braille and got sent right back for not being blind enough. It was during a very rough period I could not read any type of text, or print.
I am so sorry. It's really mind blowing how many people fall through the cracks. I am so sorry that you are dealing with this aspect on top of the eyesight issues. It definitely makes things more difficult than it needs to be.
I have myopia in both eyes since I was in 6th grade. It started as a slight blur on my sight, but it gets progressively worsen as i grew up. Now, I can't even see anything without my eyeglasses. I once broke my old eyeglasses while I was at work, and it was a struggle going home (I left my spare at home). That day really made me realise how precious my eyesight was.
same!! i hate not being able to determine wtf im seeing! and i cannot leave home without my glasses cause i will stumble and have my hands in front like im going through a mirror maze
Why don't you get Lasic surgery done? I too had similar issue but got perfect vision post surgery.. it has been 10-11 years since then and still all good
@@abh2cool1 again just have a spare pair or have contacts. You guys are dramatising this too much! Remember to weigh the pros and cons of surgery. It’s not always a guaranteed success.
@H2TEN I am not dramatizing but maybe you are just scared of the word 'surgery'.. clearly, you are either not aware of the success rates of Lasik or are from very impoverished country like Somalia.... Just visit a reputed eye hospital and they would tell you how great is the success rate of this surgery!!
I remember when I was 15 my ophthalmologist was so excited when she discovered that I have cataract. She even asked me if she could document my case since apparently it’s rare to have it that young 😃🙃
Seeing videos like this really makes you count your blessings
Blessing # 1: being able to see.
Fucking yeah it does
I SEE what you did there.
@@ProMaceblessing 2: being able to count.
What if you can’t see your blessings
Losing my eyesight is one of my worst fears. This is so scary 😢
same im so scared
Yeah try being half blind on the verge of losing your other eye to a detached muscle
And I was 8 when it happened too
@@Error-2156-XIt’s one of their worst fears. So why would they wanna imagine that. 😐
@@cheerychury because that’s what I’m going through right now I lost eye sight in my right eye do to a retina detachment and was very close to the other side doing the same thing all I was trying to say was count yourselves lucky you have both eyes I didn’t try to force that on them
@@Error-2156-X I am sorry for your tragedy but no one asked to hear about that!
We understand you have went through a pretty rough time with that, however you could have just written a completely new comment to post this.
They never said anything even related to your issue and quite frankly you are being rude even trying to trauma dump on a CZcams comment section! 😦
This kind of videos need to be shared more. I found many people that still think that blindness means that the affected people can't see anything (pitch black) and posted something like "this is fake/that person is lying, that person's gesture show that he/shr can see the things in front of him/her" etc.
I agree
Also God lives ya
I have cataracts
A lot of "blind" people ham it up
I have macular degeneration and people think I’m lying because I make my way around well
I felt this, I got hospitalized really bad at one point. Where I had heart drain done in an emergency, and 2 lung drains. Battled ammonia, sepsis, blood poisoning, left the hospital with my life, but at the cost of my right eye. It’s blurry, I can see out of the edges of the eye, but I can’t really use it. I got surgery done to scrap dead tissue from it (found out blood drained into my eye and couldn’t leave due to abnormal tissue growing on the veins from being a diabetic) even with looking after yourself. Sometimes the cards aren’t in your hands. Fast forward 5 months, I caught a extension ladder that folds to the side of the head and ended up getting a ruptured ear drum, and now my left one is damaged next, I got an injection last month, surgery on the 25th to hopefully save it, but cherish your vision everyone. I’m scared for the day to come where I can’t protect my family. Or see what they look like
Good luck 😢i pray for your recovery ❤
You wrote ammonia; did you mean anaemia?
Stay strong man.
I met a girl in college who was legally blind and wore super thick glasses. That was the first time I ever heard of night-blindness. With her glasses, she could see just enough to get around in the daylight, but at night, forget it. I didn’t fully understand how bad it was until she admitted she was afraid to go out at night because she can’t see anything; we had invited her along with us somewhere, and she said we would need to guide her by the hand and warn her about hazards like curbs and tree roots.
I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOU 2
@@redsunsoverparadiseSAME
Being a girl and trusting college people to guide you while you're blind must be terrifying.
@@Rare987yeah that's true I hope she got honest homies!
Ok
Health is a crown that only the sick can see.
Good lord I had to screenshot this. Amazing, thank you for sharing.
True that
Except blind people, cause... Y'know... Heh
@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303lol
@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303
I want to get mad at you but I can't
Going blind must be a really hard pill to swallow, my heart goes out to all suffering from blindness❤
I got my first aura migraine at the age of 10 and my god did it freak me out. There were spots blocking my vision and I literally couldn’t see in front of me, only my peripheral vision was unaffected. I was at school and it just wouldn’t go away, I thought I was going blind or something! I suffered from aura migraines for extended periods of time throughout my early teens, so much so that I was missing school. I was dizzy, nauseous, and pretty much bedridden during those days since I couldn’t see anything in front of me. It was so frustrating, and I’m so glad I’ve gotten some relief from them. Sight truly is a gift.
Positive aura
Can confirm as someone who gets them. Its terryfying. Worst part was if you get those randomly when driving on the highway
Sight and hearing are just two of the things I take most for granted, it’s time I really start being more appreciative
note to believers: We should thank our creator for giving us sight, hearing , and makes our heart beats every second.. all this life and its
ailment, hardship, will appear as short as an afternoon in Day of Judgement, and these hardship when dealt with patience is hugely
compensated in the next life that healthy one once see the gift they receive, will wish to have had that ailment because of the generosity of
our Creator.
@@sutil5078 WTF
@@sutil5078 Seek the truth, not comfort. Science is real.
Dear Pop, 1. Science explain the "how" not the why.
2. Lying to oneself won't give comfort. If you are poor try to believe "I am wealthy I am rich" see if that comfort you. "Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah " and then remained on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], "Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised." Quran 41-30.
This is one of many promises to the believer in the One true God. We feel it, when we are closer to Him, and lose that peace when we become far are from Him. So lying to oneself won't comfort anyone.
@@poppachoppa8956 in contrast turning your back on your creator will make you gradually unhappy, the more you mature and know the more you lose contentment.
Haven't you heard many rich or famous people saying "I have everything yet I am not happy" some even commit suicide..
" And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind.” and then " He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?" God will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus this Day will you be forgotten."(Quran 20, from 124 to 126),
It is blessing in disguise for some because depression is a sign to seek other alternative, to look for the truth and reconnict to God. Popp in case you one day you feel depressed with no apparent cause you know how to combat it.. though I pray that Guide you, and all of us. amin. Have a great day.
PS : to see if it is a lie say "My creator , if you exist, guide me to your path, if you have any. Amin" if yo are sincere to know the truth despite your desire to sin, you will be answered for sure.. so it is utterly easy to see the truth.. but if yo say it for fun, you may not get an answer... because God knows the heart of his servants.
So it is easy to test it.. and if you are sincere you will be in tears of joy, answer may come in many forms .. ask I add to it (don't want to write that long) few people read this anyways. peace
Never take your health for granted
@@pukeiwe'll see how fast and bad youre health is gonna be. Talk big and take big. Youre gonna regret for being so ignorant and agnorant.
Exactly 👍 I am half deaf, I only hear with one ear. It doesn't sound like much but I can make life hard sometimes. I envy everyone with a normal audition
Counterpoint: dont worry about the bad shit until it happens
@@pukei One day you'll grow up and regret all the crap food you ate. I mean you're only 12 now but life will catch up to you
@@pukei Yeah still a kid
Having good and healthy sight is such a blessing. People take ot for granted. Its something to cherish and appreciate every day you wake up and open your eyes!
As someone with multiple sclerosis, this video is actually encouraging. Visions good now but its nice to know that if my visions goes at least i could maybe still have some vision
Even people who are 100% blind often see patterns of fractals and swirling colors, and light. This is because there's no information reaching the brain since the eyes are dead, so the optic nerve kind of panics and invents visual stimuli in an attempt to compensate.
But nothing cool?
das cool
damn so kinda like the optical version of tinnitus, but a tad cooler
And I think dats pretty cool
dope, imagine having your own personal winamp visualiser 24/7
When I worked as a traffic inspector, one of the things I enjoyed the most was that I was getting paid to help blind folks cross busy streets, we'd walk nice and slow, and they would talk to me about their condition along the way.
I once managed to stop the whole transit so a stray dog could cross. It was nice that the dog actually waited for my signal.
It was such a great job, too bad it was almost 70hs/week.
damn, that's a shame you had to leave a job you enjoyed, because they scheduled you too many hours.
i hope you found a new job that's is just as rewarding, and hours that are more reasonable
W i bet people were kinda mad about being held up tho lol
@@user-cu1uj6bl3rthe number of industries where these sorts of hours are expected just boggles my mind. It doesn't make sense to me the vast majority of the time. And then, the companies that expect this whether or not it's industry standard, just bonkers. No wonder there are so many people with sleep issues, and so many depressed and exhausted adults who have almost no time to themselves.
i always tell my sisters to be grateful and cherish their eyesight. we’re so lucky and blessed to be able to see our beautiful world and all of its features. i never take it for granted
This is why most of us should be gratefull to get the blessing to see ❤
I'm 18 and have a degenerative eye condition and i just want to say i really appreciate this video. Visual impairments are so very misunderstood by pretty much everyone, and it's nice to know people are trying to spread this information. Going blind is very difficult, and all the social neglect and ostracization has nearly broken me at this point, seeing this makes me feel a small bit better.
All I can say is Take care mate.
my best wishes to your future.
Yeah, my visions been getting worse too. You’re not alone just never give up maybe there’ll be a cure sometime in our lifetime. We’re both still 18 we’ve got a whole life ahead of us!
I feel like this video really misrepresented blindness. What he showed is not “blindness”.
@@Qatari2007it is blindness indeed.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in my 20's and because of the surgery to remove a lot of it, I lost vision in one of my eyes. It's now black like the first example because my optic nerve cells died. I am immensely grateful I can still see out of the other one. ❤ This video was helpful to see how blindness in others is not like the blackness I experience.
I’m so sorry you have to go through that:( good they were able to get the tumor out tho!
that's great you at least preserved your eyesight in one eye
Please tell me you wear an eye patch everyday
You could probably sue for malpractice
I had an AVM rupture in my brain and lost half of my vision in each eye during surgery. it’s weird how the brain works and how you can have many possibilities of what can happen to your eyes. 💕
So glad, that I have got eyes to see, a mouth to speak and ears to hear! Respect to all the visually impaired people out there 💪🏽🫡
I have myopia (-6.25) and this makes me grateful for my eyes and how they shouldn't be took for granted❤
There's different kinds of blindness, and they all vary in severity from person to person. Thank you for showing it.
Man it sucks I'm far sighted but having to wear glasses is like a burden, the sulky thing is I wasn't blind to begin with it crept up on me as I got older
This was already established. Thanks for reiterating what the OG just finished saying idiot.
@@blackmusictitles2271Being farsighted is not the same as being blind. I'm nearsighted and I'm not blind, I wear contacts and I see perfectly with them, even better than most people with nothing. If your vision can be corrected, you aren't blind.
Yes we’ve known this for literally 100+ years
@@diesel4ever273 so people who are completely blind and undergo surgery then is able to see again are they really blind?
Whilst studying an art degree at university I did a whole project on disabilities n created loads of glasses for people to wear, recreating different eye conditions. I mainly did it as they never have any to show my visual impairment, which is a left sided hemianopia. I’m blind on the left side of both eyes. Those glasses I made are the ones everyone found the most disorientating
Imagine if it was where you couldn't see the right side of your left eye, instead of having it on the same side of both your eyes
@@devincetee5335it would be like having a really wide nose
!!!! YOU ARE SO STRONG !!!!
I love that! I'm curious though, so how does your brain handle the lack of information? Does your vision just go black on the left like you're halfway behind a wall, or something else? I hope that doesn't seem rude. I'm just curious about how you see the world as opposed to how I see it. I had no idea until adulthood that I have astigmatism in both eyes, but they go in totally different directions. I also have chronic migraines which causes worsening blurriness and double vision. I'm deep in a migraine right now and I'm struggling with my phone keyboard. I honestly miss the old cell phones with physical buttons because I didn't have to look to type.
@@devincetee5335at that point you'd just be cutting your nose out of view which your brain usually does automatically (except now since you're thinking about it)
It breaks my heart to think so many people could be so close to being able to see and yet be so far
Going blind and/or deaf is one of my biggest fears. I am very slowly going deaf from an undiagnosed condition, but I think it would be scarier to be going blind, up until seeing this video I truly took my sight for granted. If any single one of these things ever happened I would be straight down to the optometrist or my doctor to find a way to fix it, my sight is everything to me as it is to a lot of other people
I am legally blind from birth. I have almost no vision in my right eye. Still, I can walk around my own home like I'm not blind at all. There are many ways to be blind. And if you are going blind, there is a lot of help out there for you.
I don’t think I’m blind by one I works not well like my other eye one, I can see good out of the other I can’t. It depends on the lighting and depends if I just woke up or not it depends on the surroundings.
Can someone explain to me what it means to be legally blind?
@HowDoIPlayAgain I am legally blind from my understanding this means is that I am eligible for Special support. In my case, this meant availability to special lessons. To help me learn how to navigate and do things. The availablity to access the Library of Congress and barrow books on tape large print or brail books. When I was in school. It often meant that I got extra help with certain things. Like extra time on tests. Help with assignments help with reading. Help navigating my school. As an adult, I have access to blind canes And I am found disabled enough to receive governmental help. Basically, I'm blind enough that I'm truly disabled.
So half-blind/partially blind?
@@theteanerd7246 Oh okay. Thank you 👍🏾
Isn’t it CRAZY how seeing another’s perspective makes you appreciate yours???
Yes
no bc im also blind
☝️🤓
@@Rizz-cb1bp ?
Dawg im laughing at their vision being worse then zoros sense.of direction
Thank you for that demonstration! And thank you for educating people about this!
I love how you are making people more aware as someone who has had a brain bleed causing the left side of each eye not wording and has glaucoma
my grandmother has macular degeneration. i never realized how bad it could be and this really made me feel so much gratefulness. i think ima go call my grandma now and tell her i love her…
Do it
@@getrealcashsame pfp , and you should tell your grandma you love her!
my husband's mom has it and she has to get shots in her eyeballs every 2 months in hopes it doesn't get worse. I am really scared one day my husband will get it because his grandfather on that side had it too. what a terrible gene to have
ur lucky u still have her! whatd she say?
you're so lucky your grandma is still alive.
I started wearing glasses when I was 8 years old and my eyesight got progressively worse until I reached -5.25 dioptries on both eyes by the time I was 25 and I just couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't even see a person next to me clearly when talking to them so I went and had a lasik operation last year. I have to tell you it was the best investment of my life. My eyesight got progressively better and better with every single day and I just started appreciating the world around me more than ever before. I've got tears in my eyes just thinking about those first moments when I was walking down the historic center of my city and all those old buildings and statues were so clear. I'm so happy I went for it and I have a huge appreciation for blind people that can live their lives despite being blind. I don't think I could handle it.
Same here but a little worse. I always encourage others to get LASIK if possible. Best money ever spent and I'm sure we would've done it earlier knowing how it feels
What age did you get lasik? 25?
@@billkgeorge yes
Last year I was really hopeful for getting lasik because my eyesight was getting progressively worse. Thankfully I went to see an ophthalmologist first and they found out the reason for my sudden vision losss was keratoconus and I could've lost my eyesight if I had lasik done since one of the corneas is too thin and fragile. I got crosslinking instead and those I didn't get better eyesight, it has stopped the keratoconus formation
Im glad for you. I got it done and 5 years later my vision back to where it was before.
Thank u for explaining this.Its hard for me to explain when people ask me.
Thank you for the education! I knew some timy bit of this information but have never experienced the examples nor known of some of the possibilities shown here, much appreciated!
My brother is one of the rare ones where he can't see anything whatsoever.
When he was getting a routine check in, the examiner shone a light in his eye and said "can you see that?" to which he said yes. As the examiner put down the flashlight to write it down my mum rolled her eyes and said, "how about now?" to which my bro replied "yes." The doctor then sheepishly started crossing out what she had just written😆
Edit: No, he wasn't pranking her, he was just quite young and literally has no idea what 'seeing' actually means since he's never experienced it. He was just flipping a coin 😆
@Man1narm0rbut can't most people, even if they can't see anything at all, detect light?
Woah
@@gh0stly_retr048 the only reason you can see is because of light, without light, you wouldn’t have vision, if you can see light, you can see.
@Clewis45 How boring must your life be to not consider this as possible? 😂 Crazier things happen routinely.
What about his life after your parents death or old age did you ever plan about it
Man, I have the cataract level vision and I'm not even diagnosed with it. All I know is that my glasses are about as thick as an armored car's windshield.
Same. Myopia+Astigmatism.
Hy brother I have cataract what should I do
People says you can cure blindness but that not true some blindness can be fixed like some cataracts
@colemertanedo5796 you can't do anything
@@SHQ09Xtreme Pretty normal surgery in the UK for people to have but i imagine the cost in the US is prohibitive
We had These glasses when working in elderly care, with 25kg waightsuit while trying to go up stairs. This was to imagine how some people feel, it helped me get another perspective.
Really helps you understand what old dogs go through
It’s so humbling to realize how lucky I currently am to not have to live like this and sympathy’s go out to those who do
Same, I have fine vision and no common allergies, and I tend to think about how much I take that for granted
I wish i had perfect vision mine is blurry and need glasses 😢
@@xxcardi-of7lm yea same but atleast it's only blurry and not like the examples
God loves yall
@@xxcardi-of7lmmine left eye is blurry but it’s only -1,60
yesterday i went to an opthalmologist and he made a quick work telling me my vision is well being 20/20, you have no idea how blessed I feel after seeing this.
Mine is 7/20 I can't see things far😢
I have a minus 2 prescription but it doesn't matter because I can get glasses
Me who needs glasses 🫠 I’m near sighted
@@Memoryman12367I’ve got -3.25 imagine not being blinder than me🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@Endergirl-xz7qi same
We should have these glasses in some tourist places just to get the perspective and feel grateful.
I'm so glad that you can still see colour if you're blind (mostly). One of my worst fears is going blind but knowing that if I do I can probably still see blobs of colours eases my worries
My mom was legally blind with 20/800 vision. For those that may not know, that means that she saw from 20 yards what a person with 20/20 vision saw from 800 yards. She always attributed it to being in an incubator when she was born premature in 1952, and despite the ridiculously thick glasses she wore for most of her life, she was always happy to be alive, and for the technology that gave her sight. She developed cataracts and in 2011 she was able to have cataract surgery where they replaced her lenses with a permanent prescription, which allowed for her to ditch the glasses for the first time in her life. She passed in 2022, but she woke up every day for 11 years thankfully for the new gift of sight she was granted late in life.
kinda like attaching a long range scope to a shotgun (no offense), btw I hope she's good tho 👍
Built-in binoculars wow. I'm gonna have to look at what cataracts means again from the video
(I don't see my comment anymore but I'm gonna assume CZcams just glitched it for the moment). So to sum it up, she had built in binoculars that she could disable by putting on her glasses, then her vision was affected by common blindness which was then fixed.
😢😢. My mum died in 1991... the technology wasn't that advanced, and she hated the glasses I got her in 1990 cos the lenses were thick and she'd got used to not seeking properly 😢
@@uniwolfgamer1094that doesn't mean she had good vision at distance, it means an object at 20ft to her would be as blurry as an object at 800ft for an average person
Yes, I love that you made this video. I have a cataract in my right eye, and so many people ask me questions about what it is to be legally blind. This kind of gives them a visual of what people with blindness see.
I was born with a cataract in my right eye so I was born blind and had to slowly get my vision back some what it’s been hard to do so but it also comes with some fun
Are you going to have it removed?
@@yandere_wolf_lover4622i never would have thought being blind can be fun! I hope you are doing well
I have cataract as well in my left eye, once had surgery when still elementary school but it wasn't get any better. I can confirm the view is indeed blur, but not smoothly blurred, more like pixelated blur in my case. Glad my righty is doing okay until now.
So you really see with you right eye like that?
How do you see in 3D with this ?
Are you tired with your "normal" eye by the end if the days?
I'm sorry i didn't have glasses or problem with my eyes BUT i wanna understand more people with disability.
I apologies if it's offensive
Thank God for everything.
For every little thing bro, every little thing
Alhumdullillah for everything . God has blessed us with so many bounties may he heal every sick person
As a blind person, I can confirm this is how we see. It was great to watch this video!
Underrated
Im surprised you can see it properly
What type of blindness do you have?
@@painfulguyfrom2018Watch the video again. It's distracting but not impossible to see, depending on your type of blindness.
@@rubenvanderark4960 oh wait nvm, i forgot they are used to it
As a kid I went to a birthday party mall trip where the birthday girl’s mom and I were the only two not legally blind. I learned quickly that there are different types and levels of blindness even in our small group. At one point I passed a rose embroidered hat to one girl cause I thought the tactile nature of the stitching would be interesting to her and was surprised to learn she was able to look at the pattern when she held it up close.
We all went bowling afterwards and had a great time :)
Wow, that bowling must have been a lot of fun. And I don't mean it sarcastically.
@@Meg_A_Byte it was! I don’t remember what the scores were at the end of the night, but we had a slide thing to help roll the ball for some, so everyone did relatively well. I tried fried pickles for the very first time there :)
@@adrianen4644 Lovely to hear that! I hope you and your friends live happy lives.
@@Meg_A_Byte thank you! I hope you do as well!
This is too wholesome :'
I have a blind oc and this really helps with writting them, stay informed with conditions!
I just touched my eyes and said "i love you eye sight".
Had a friend in highschool go blind from brain cancer (he's 5+ yrs free now), he can see shades of blue well so I always make sure we all wear blue if we go out so he can find us easier if seperated.
You wearing blue for your friend is really cool of you
That's some real bros moves
that’s so sweet!!
🫡
Cuh
As an optician I found this video really helpful for describing conditions to patients!
For my experience, I had MOGAD a few years back. It is basically anti-body cells attacking each other, and it caused one of my eyes to look like cracked frosted glass. It's painful to move too.
I pray almighty to keep everyone healthy and in good condition.
We need this kind of shorts/vids. Educational and informative.
We don't need videos that try to create victim complexes over nothing
@@DiggitySliceThat’s not the point of this video at all, chill out dude.
@@DiggitySliceover nothing? My guy, these people are blind 😂
There actual is , just based on your algorithm
@@DiggitySlice We don't need an 8 year old on an informational video talking about how "its creating victim complexes" like my guy what are you on
Theres also a common phenomenon called "blindsight". People are nearly 100% blind can still sometimes react to something thrown at them or moving fast infront of them, because even though their visual cortex never receives the information, the reactionary nerves that connect directly to the muscles *do*. They will impulsively flinch without even really understanding why.
✨Ultra Instinct✨
✨️Daredevil✨️
✨spidey sense✨
So literally DND Blindsight
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It's nice to see this video. Two years ago, my grandmother suffered from cataracts that she had surgically removed. Two years later, and now she's suffering from macular degeneration. It's nice to know how she sees.
i’ve had cataract for as long as i remember but i was diagnosed with it at the age of 8, and its really crazy cuz since i was little i thought that this was just how the world was and thats how everyone sees it, but once my mom caught up on to it and i started wearing glasses it was like everything was new to me! i started seeing details and clear colors instead of shapes and colors only! i literally remember the day after i started wearing glasses when i was going to school i noticed that the side road with small black rocks that my mom always parks on is actually not just a pitch black ground!! i still remember the feeling of happiness and shock as i saw the details of every small rock just laying underneath me! i was amused that i shouted to my mother “ I CAN SEE THE GROUND” and she bursted down in tears thinking that it was her fault that she didnt notice my eyes earlier because i have always shown signs even years before, like my mom picking me up from school and when i go out and she waves at me from the car expecting me to run to her all smiley and happy just like all the other kids i would look at her and continue looking at people beside her like i dont recognize her until she screams my name and i finally realize that this is my mom, i would always trip and scrape my knee in very bad ways and i would hit things that were obviously there. i never payed attention in class when i was little because i wasnt seeing anything on the board since i liked sitting far in the back not knowing i had bad eyesight and the teachers always complained to my mom about me not concentrating. its a struggle to say the least. even 12 years later i always have this thought that im slowly losing more eyesight as im getting older and im gonna be blind someday it really scares me.. i dont want that.. even the thought of it makes me sad.. but thats life isn’t it? god gives and god takes. i still have things that alot of people dont have, so im grateful for those. and im always grateful for my mother and i hope she never thinks that its her fault. thanks for reading stranger☺️🤍.
One problem with glaucoma is that you don't notice it. Your brain attempts to figure out what is in the parts of the field of vision where you can't see, and shows you a complete vision. A collegue of mine only discovered that he has big holes in his field of vision when a car suddenly appeared out of nowhere right in front of him.
Holy fuck
Do you know how it's detected earlier than a situation like that?
@@uzijn In my case it was detected before any real damage was done because I get my eyes checked every year due to my diabetes. Regular checkups is the only way.
Thank you for replying. What happened with you once they diagnosed it, and what can they do once it's progressed?@@klausolekristiansen2960
It is a problem but at least if you did have glaucoma, you could at least live with the illusion that you still have the rest of your vision.
Wow I get mad even when my glasses have a spec of dirt on them and get annoyed everytime I have to wipe them. People with these conditions have got my respect ❤
How do you even see the dirt? - fellow glasses user (nearsighted)
If I had to explain how I don't notice the dirt, I'd point to the microwave. You can see the food inside and when you focus on that, you don't notice the netting.
You have my respect right back!
@@AverageConsumer-uj8sm
Dirt on glasses with a correction for astigmatism is very annoying (like rather not wear glasses and don’t see shit type of annoying).
@@AverageConsumer-uj8smwell it's not dirt per se but more like a smudged blur. And that part is annoying.
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As someone who has albinism and is legally blind I love learning about how blindness looks for others so thanks
I got a little panicky watching this. I really felt like I was experiencing each disease and it made me really anxious. So blessed to have healthy vision.
This made me want to look at my child every day and never let go so that I won't forget his face if this happens.
Luckily it’s usually gradual and not instantaneous. There are some exceptions but they’re not as common
Lotta these are reversible
This is the sweetest comment I've seen on a short.
@@DomzyDX For the rich, sure.
wanna cry so bad after seeing this 😭 my father was diagnosed with the diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and cataract at the same time. May God bless him 🥲
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Suddenly, I am so grateful for my vision.
Macular degeneration was one of the saddest things to watch my grandpa go through. Started there ended with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Rip gido
As an optician, I work a lot with these cases. Thanks for explaining this. The amount of patients I get that are totally panicked at a diagnosis bc they think they'll have total vision loss is very sad. A lot of these cases are totally treatable.
They’re treatable?
Are the preventable too?
@@mrs.quills7061well don't get old
I wish all will be treatable one day. Especially Retinitis Pigmentosa.
I have a blind friend who describes it in an interesting way. He says it isn’t black, there is just nothing there. For example, if I asked you to tell me what you see behind you without turning around, it wouldn’t be black, it would just be nothing.
We tend to interpret black as a color, but it isn't, black is the lack of light, it really is nothingness.
If you were in an entirely dark room for days, soon you'll stop "seeing black", as your brain would start interpreting it as what it really is, nothing.
@@TylerdaSilva94 En soit les yeux fermee en plain jour on vois la lumière a travers la paupière ducoup c'est ni noir ni rien et je pence qu'on poura jamais savoir se que cela fait de ne voir rien a part si on devien aveugle
is nothing like so blurry it’s just a single color? i’m confused sorry
@@Joeythenoey It isn't there. It's incomprehensible. Try to imagine you have an extra sense like being able to feel electricity far from your body. You can't actually sense it, but it inst that you sense 0 electricity, it's that this isn't even a thing.
@@TylerdaSilva94im seeing a brownish dark color that changes tone depending on the light around me help am i doing something wrong
I had optic nerve swelling caused a case of pseudotumor cerebri at age 18. I went temporary blind for about 5 months and I only could described it to people as looking through the fog… but now I see it was similar to cataracts. Being blind has really redefine the definition of blindness for me early in life.
Wow!! I didn’t know that, I thought blind people couldn’t see anything, thank you for letting me know that not all blind people can see!
I'm 42, and I've had perfect vision my entire life. This video definitely makes me appreciate that fact.
It gets even more complicated than this. I've got sensory processing problems with my vision and so, I see mostly perfectly, except objects in my view just don't always render.
The best way to really get it is to play a '90s era 3d video game especially a racing game or some flight simulators and watch the visual pop up as things just appear out of nowhere,
It's usually not that bad, and other things at the same distance will be there, but it's a decent example.
I had a deaf classmate once and I was asking her about it and she said it was hard to describe, so I asked if it was like blurriness but for your ears and she said thats exactly what it sounds like. She could hear the sounds and their tones and pitches, but she couldn't see the details very well.
Edit: holy crap how is this getting so many likes-
Are they blind or deaf???
@@MDT-m pretty sure deaf, they probably said "see the details" in a metaphorical sense instead of a literal one
Damn, that's like me 😮
I hear change in pitch and tone but words don't come through
Unnecessarily dumb comment.
@@MDT-m deaf, I'm using one sensory input to describe another.
Hiya I’m over here in England watching this, I suffer from something called stargarts a very rare form of macular degeneration, not so dissimilar to the last example shown here. I also get double vision and suffer from huge headaches when it’s very sunny.. fortunately been an Englishman in England that last one doesn’t happen too often. Using speech to text on an iPad to make this comment…..God Bless… stay strong everyone.
Cataract for me is in my dreams, it's literally how I see when sleeping, my parents say it's spiritual and I believe but it's also scary
My uncle has described his blindness as to being more akin to closing your eyes.
Sure, you can't see for jackshit, but if you stare at the sun, you're still gonna see light.
I heard it more as closing one eye and trying to see what is behind that eye. Just nothinh
@@iamboxboynooneelseisboxboy I thought it was like trying to see out of your foot- not even darkness, just nothing- kind of a similar analogy.
After this video I’m not sure if it’s true, though.
Stair at the stun gun!
I think there's a name for that type of blindness, something about only seeing light degrees but not details or colour.
So people with that kind of blindness have to wear sunglasses in winter because the snow reflects the sun too much.
A friend of our family who became blind in his later years said it was was more like an endless grey mist, he couldn't see anything at all but it wasn't dark. In fact he said that when he first became blind he had trouble sleeping because it was always a bit too bright.
oh wow, thank you for sharing that knowledge. I have never heard of that!
I have congenital cataracts, got diagnosed just shy of 20 years old. It's terrifying seeing what my vision could be like in the future.
I used to play squash when I was 12. One day I was playing a match against my friend and he accidentally hit the squash ball directly in my eye. I closed my eye and it started hurting terribly, when I opened it, my vision was exactly like diabetic retinothropy (the first one) it was only for a few seconds, but I’m grateful that I didn’t lose my vision
I got a temporary issue with my eye once due to a migraine, that was the first time where I truly understood what seeing "nothing" is like. A splotch in my vision that was just gone, not black, just gone. It's insane that you can't comprehend that nothing until you truly "see" it.
yeah this has also happened to me with migraines, i would slowly move my hand from where i could still see it to where i couldnt and it was very strange watching my hand somehow just sort of fade away into nothingness
Same club
The first experience was so scary!
Because my _grau ocular_ (don't know the correct translation for this) is so high, I was afraid my vision was a goner
I've heard it explained as "what do you see out your elbow" and it blew my mind.
I had that three times. Scary as fuck.
For me it starts with a portion of my vision to the right of center just disappearing. If I were to look at someone putting their nose around the center of my vision, their left eye would look like it didn't exist, like it was just skin. Then my peripheral vision starts going bad, looks like a zebra pattern of black and silver, and one of the times it happened, it was a dull gray. Then after an hour I have to deal with a really strong headache that only affects the left side of my head and the most painful spot is around my orbital bone. It scares me because the three times it happened I thought it could have been a stroke. Thankfully it was just a migraine and my vision came back to normal everytime.
Sometimes when my sinuses get super congested, the vision in my right eye becomes pure white due to the pressure (kind of like rubbing your eye to see colors). It also has a weird effect where I can only read every other letter of a book. Super annoying.
I am blind and thankful for this video spreading awareness. At 26 I lost all central vision due to a disease called NMO (that also left me paralyzed for 6 months) I can no longer feel my legs, however I have regained my ability to walk and am so grateful. Sadly, I will never get my vision back. It was really wild. One day I’m working as a nurse, then next I’m being rushed to Wills Eye hospital and will never work, drive, or see people faces again. I can still see a little bit peripherally (out of tr corner of my eye) but it’s very blurry and the rest of my sight is nothingness. I am thankful this video is spreading awareness that not all of us who are blind see total darkness. Thank you!
Dang girl!
I'm glad I read that but I am very sorry for your experience. I really appreciate hearing part of your story, and I hate that you have had to go through this. If you don't mind, I will make an effort to appreciate my own good health "so far" in honor of Tracy Rose and the horrible bad luck that you had? You must be a strong person to take all that as well as you have,I couldn't imagine how hard that would be! I've went to sleep in pain before and when I woke,I couldn't feel my legs at all, but the docs were able to fix it within hours,and I was a panicking mess! I'm glad you are walking, I truly hope it doesn't get worse and only improves from now on. I wish you the very best, and will pray for you, and I don't really pray but will try. Thanks again for sharing that. Hang in there,You got this!
how did u see this video then💀💀💀
@@dlsgamer2982 they can see a bit periferially, that's what they said, which is not much but perhaps they could slightly watch the video like that
that fucking sucks man, i have permanent acute optic neuritis in my left eye and they gave me a specific blood test for NMO, it was absolutely scary. i hope you live a long and fulfilling life despite that debilitating disease
@@dlsgamer2982you know blind people can still hear shit, right
Eyyyy the cataracts are what my eyes look like!! I am in suffering lol
Severe floaters is a big problem too! For me it’s similar to looking through a dusty, cob webby lace curtain.
My neighbor, who’s a sweet 94-year-old man has macular degeneration and he tells me all the time I know you’re beautiful, even though I can’t see you. Makes me cry every time.
that's so sweet
Real, bro's kind.
I'm sure you're beautiful on the inside, as well, and he can tell that ❤
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I would like to specify as well that most people with blind spots don’t know that they have blind spots. They don’t see black either, rather the spot is just missing from their vision. And, the two eyes can work together to fill in some of the missing pieces, albeit distorted or incompletely. Plus, it usually comes on gradually so it’s harder to notice. Unless they have had a stroke or another trauma to the eye that causes sudden vision changes, it’s way more difficult to detect. That’s why it’s so scary because most people believe they are fine because they are unaware of what they are missing.
I mean if I have to choose, It's better than drastically knowing there's something wrong with your eyes.
I am so thankful for my vision, even if i have to wear contacts/glasses
As someone with blurry vision almost like cataract but a bit more clearer, I can’t read words or see people faces well but I still see what items I’m holding and stuff, I have -2.7 vision and it’s hard to stay off the phone especially in the dark because it’s such an addiction and I really hope I can get more things to keep me distracted like a summer vacation
I am legally blind in 1 eye due to eye cancer & the related surgery. I am 60 years old & had the surgery 10 years ago, had perfect vision for close to 50 years. I too appreciate my 1 eye more today than the 2 I took for granted.
I'm Glad to hear that you still have good vision in 1 eye.I agree;It's nice to have had good vision in our younger years.I'm also 60.I Just got diagnosed with Corneal Edema.Kinda like waking up with cataracts,except my vision clears up throughout the day(most days).Still sucks though.☹
Awww God bless you! I wish you peace, health, and happiness ❤️
my mom has cataracts right now, and her doctor says she's "not bad enough" for surgery. she hasn't been able to drive all year. American health care!!
So sorry to hear that :(
You can also, potentially, look for other options, instead of surgery, like seeing what natural options are out there
@@hannagabrielle3325natural options for cataracts lol good luck with that
In India cataract surgery is very common and is done at the beginning stages!!
It is similar in Turkey aswell. They say that they can do it only once so they wait for it to grow to its worse state before it is done to save you the most time in the future
God Bless those who are going through this 🙏🏾❤️
I am gojng through something similar. These videos make me so anxious and scare the shit out of me
I had a friend who was not born blind, but went blind by in infection in her spinal cord and it affected her vision. For her, she said that it's like walking in bathroom and someone turned the shower on and it's really steamy! she can make out certain colors and shapes, but has a service dog who helps her! She is brilliant and is going to get her Masters soon!
Sounds like she has optic neuritis like me. I have multiple sclerosis, and optic neuritis is a common first symptom. I've got lesions on my brain and spine. Inflamed optical nerves result in the steamy/foggy vision. This happened overnight, always appreciate being in good health, it can change in an instant.
I’ve seen some videos where people swear the blind person can see, and they would most likely be right but not in the way they think. This video needs to be spread more!
I have macular generation at the age of 3 and watching these videos helps me realize I’m not alone
In 2020 when Covid was bad. I was having strange symptoms, especially with my eyes, things got blurry for me, and at one point it was so bad that I couldn’t make out people or things everything looked like blurred blobs. It started when I could see the scores on basketball games on a 75inch tv about 7 feet away from me. I tried getting an appointment with my doctor in April 2020, but the nearest available was December 7th 2020. It got somewhat better and couldn’t wait to see my doctor. December 4th 2020 I would be found on the floor unresponsive, breathing weird and vomit all around me. My dad found me called 911. I was brought to the ER ICU in a coma. I was going through DKA, and had a glucose number of 1,510 which is fatal. By the time my appointment would come, I was in the ICU again in a coma. I woke up 5 days later. I’m glad my dad found me or I would’ve died. What sucks is my vision was better, but exactly the same day they released me my vision went bad again, I couldn’t read or see my phone unless I put it 2 inches from my face. Take care of your self guys. Diabetes is no joke also diabetic retinopathy ❤ I have a friend from church and his brother is completely blind now because of his diabetes.
Thank you for teaching those that don't understand. I get assumed full blind all the time and then when I use a lot of blind techniques (touch, smell, vibration, memory ECT) they think it means I'm lying....I MISS my full sight. I wish it was only a lie.
Thanks for educating people.
Same for me.
If I hear "you're not blind you can walk without a guide dog"
ONE MORE TIME☹️
One of my friends woke up one day nearly blind; the night prior, he could see completely fine. Within months he was completely blind in both eyes at 21. Hold gratefulness in your heart every day, count your blessings
What happened?
This is my nightmare.
@@mariuszmoraw3571 Very rare condition, not 100% sure what it’s called off the top. Scared our entire friend group shitless, we all gained a new perspective on life. We spent his last few months with vision travelling the world with him :)
@@mariuszmoraw3571 Just asked him, he said his blood pressure got incredibly high in his sleep. His doctor said that it rising that high and not getting treated for hours (he was sleeping, so didn’t feel any side effects that would have prompted him to go to the hospital) severely damaged his retinas :( he never had any issues with blood pressure previously, it literally happened out of nowhere
This is how I went blind too. I woke up in the night and realized I was not able to see out of my right eye. I had surgery the next day to save some sight in my other eye but have only about 5% sight in my good eye.
It’s a tough adjustment for sure but it is doable and I have found so many ways to cope. Sometimes it just takes patience and calmness because the frustration is the worst part for sure. But whatever bit of sight you have is a great benefit and you have to learn to use it and persevere.
as someone who is blind in my right eye, you putting the camera in the right lens threw my brain through a loop
I’m forever grateful for my vision ❤
Thank you, I am visually impaired most due to my nystagmus, and many other things too. Through it’s hard to explain how terrible my eyesight is and that glasses don’t really fix it to people, because they think it’s all or nothing. And even with my visual impairness affects my day to day life, I am still not legally blind, even though I am not allowed to drive and do many jobs. I think it’s terrible and the visually impaired community don’t get the needs we need because we are “not blind enough.” We need to be heard and we need society to listen!
It's ridiculous to me that we can be considered too blind to drive or work but not blind enough to receive any sort of assistance. Disability determinations are supposed to be determined by function and impact on ADLs, not an arbitrary number that's far past the point most people can't function.
I have uveitis. I have lost most of my vision in my 20s, got some back in my 30s, and it's better in my 40s I still can't drive. I am super sensitive to light. My vision loss is caused by Lupus. My vision can change day to day. It's like looking though a thin white t-shirt and on good days glasses can give me 20/200 vision.
@feistsorcerer2251 I was sent by Doris Stein Eye Institute to start learning braille and got sent right back for not being blind enough. It was during a very rough period I could not read any type of text, or print.
Such an ableist world
I am so sorry. It's really mind blowing how many people fall through the cracks. I am so sorry that you are dealing with this aspect on top of the eyesight issues. It definitely makes things more difficult than it needs to be.
I have myopia in both eyes since I was in 6th grade. It started as a slight blur on my sight, but it gets progressively worsen as i grew up. Now, I can't even see anything without my eyeglasses. I once broke my old eyeglasses while I was at work, and it was a struggle going home (I left my spare at home). That day really made me realise how precious my eyesight was.
Yes always have a spare pair or contact lenses with you at hand.
same!! i hate not being able to determine wtf im seeing! and i cannot leave home without my glasses cause i will stumble and have my hands in front like im going through a mirror maze
Why don't you get Lasic surgery done? I too had similar issue but got perfect vision post surgery.. it has been 10-11 years since then and still all good
@@abh2cool1 again just have a spare pair or have contacts. You guys are dramatising this too much! Remember to weigh the pros and cons of surgery. It’s not always a guaranteed success.
@H2TEN I am not dramatizing but maybe you are just scared of the word 'surgery'.. clearly, you are either not aware of the success rates of Lasik or are from very impoverished country like Somalia....
Just visit a reputed eye hospital and they would tell you how great is the success rate of this surgery!!
I thank god for blessing me and giving me good vision❤
I remember when I was 15 my ophthalmologist was so excited when she discovered that I have cataract. She even asked me if she could document my case since apparently it’s rare to have it that young 😃🙃