The five senses (that we know of) are Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch. And we鈥檝e all at some point pondered what it would be like to lose one or some of those senses. Many people who can currently see consider blindness a scary prospect.
But the thing is, when we sighted people try to imagine being blind? It鈥檚 nothing more than our best guess. And that fear you might feel at the thought of having a severe vision impairment - or no vision at all, no light, no color - that fear is a kind of illusion, too.
Today, you鈥檙e going to meet five people who are blind, and hear about how they鈥檝e customized their lives to live on their own terms.
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GUESTS:
- is the Founder of and lead instructor at . He has been using sonar to navigate the world since losing both of his eyes to cancer as a baby
- is a who has Stargardt鈥檚 Disease, a genetic eye disorder that causes progressive vision loss
- Louise Polio is a weaver with the . She is 73 and lives in Wethersfield
- Carmen Lopez, 57, is a weaver with the
- Derrick Lewis is a weaver with the . He is 36 and lives in Farmington
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
