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Thank you for this. I’m trying to move towards this mindset now with regards to my hearing loss. I’ve been focussed on trying to find the cause of it in the hope that there’s a cure out there, but I’m trying to accept it and move on now. I hope to say that I embrace it one day
I agree with you when you said it's important to change your mindset and collaborate with your faults. That's exactly what I started doing about a year ago and it made me feel so much better about my eyes.
Great vlog post, James! My son has nystagmus, his vision is decent though. He is 7 and is able to ride a bicycle, something I never thought he would be able to do. We should all be so wise to learn to embrace our challenges! Thank you!
Hey mate found you randomly but am so glad, its great to see other people who are in the same situation as myself in regards to your disability thank you for putting yourself out there and just being you.
Thank you for sharing. I will try to apply this empowering mentality in my own life. Legal blindness and living in a rural area with few opportunities gets me down sometimes. But, it's not all bad. I have a good family and my passion, writing. This message of collaborating with my eyes and deciding to be happy really spoke to me.
Great video, I have high prescription and nystagmus but I can see ok and can still focus. Really interesting to listen to your point of view and see you get on with it even with visual difficulties
happiness is absolutely a choice and i love the way you are embracing your blindness and not letting it hold you back from doing what you want!!! it's exactly this attitude that will help you disrupt the industry! rooting for you!
Hey James, this is an awesome video! Thank you for sharing with all of us. You’re a very courageous and influential person here on UA-cam, I’m so glad that all of us in the blind and visually impaired community have you to represent us! Thanks again James, Matt
Im going trough that "accepting" phase and your vídeos have helped me a lot, im even changing universities and I've stopped avoiding talking about my ocular albinism. Keep the good work up man
Love your videos! Is there any possibility that you and Molly Burke can collaborate on another video? I know that you guys did a collab a while ago , but an updated/new video would be awesome to watch xx love from South Africa
Can i just say that after watching several of your videos i think that you have an uber awesome personality! 😅 Much success to you and your channel goals! 😄
Hi just found your channel I have an eye disease myself which affects my central vision it's so interesting to discover the similarly and differences between different eye conditions
Cool video James. I’ve never been able to explain my legal blindness to people very well. Thank you for making these videos that visually show what legal blindness really is. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you for embracing blindness and making people aware! My daughter has ocular albinism and is 6 years old, she has fair skin but brown hair and green eyes she does not look like your “typical “ person with albinism. It’s so important to educate the world around us about visual impairments! Thank you for doing just that!
Collaborating is a really good way to talk about the experience of using technology. One of the biggest impacts I've experienced so far has been using fonts designed for dyslexic people when I read Kindle ebooks with the green screen setting. I just played around with the tech on hand and stumbled across the combination. I don't see more clearly, but I end up understanding what I am reading and can use smaller font sizes than before. Weird, but useful.
I like that analogy of collaborating with your disability rather than fighting against it. That part about family wanting to look for a cure. Oh man I’ve heard that one plenty of times. I mean yeah a cure would be nice but I’m also being proactive in making the best with the vision I still have. Pondering and pandering. Who knew one letter could change the meaning of an entire word lol.
Thank you, as a fellow VIP I can appreciate your difficulties. I’m very near sighted. -27.45 Left & -24.3 Right. My vision is “corrected” through glasses. My left is such that it’s not much use even wearing my glasses. My right eye is dominant, the other just dances around, doing its own thing. Until the right is blocked and then it swings into action. Though I struggle reading with it. Just recently during a dark wet night walked into a bus shelter (not the correct way), been diagnosed with the beginnings of a cataract in my right eye. Got super depressed for a period of time. It’s not going to get better. But hey, that’s fine. Im registered partially sighted, so have a free bus pass, which here in Scotland allows me free travel on buses, trains and ferries. So I’m trying to get it covered. I too struggled at school and my mum was adamant that I was not going to a “special” school. I attended main stream schools, passed my exams (a lot of which I sat on computer) went to college and lately uni where I got bachelors in computing science. I’m a determined and focused “no pun intended” guy. Stay positive young man. Live your videos.
I have an astagmus. Luckily I can see but only with contacts or glasses. It gets really frustrating sometimes especially when I’m tired at night. It affects my daily life and it’s really annoying. I’m glad to see someone accepting that sight with such positivity
i love -not being normal since in my opinion its better to be yourself instead of trying to be like everyone else, i don't like it when people ask me if there's a cure or if i thought of having surgery to cure my vision. I have to always explain their is no cure for retinal dystrophy and recently my step sister told me i should pray so that God will make me a miracle. That realy made me a little ofended as ive already come to terms that being legaly blind is part of my life and ive already learned to live happily with how I am, by making sure i find accessable tools and ways to have a good life and do many of the things that a sighted person can do. I love your videos they motivate me to do better and they chear me up if im feeling down.
You’re right I have retinitis pigmentosa and there’s no cure out there at all and my parents have been praying for a cure or for healing up some sort crap like that and honestly I’m OK with it I don’t want to be “ normal” I want to be me that’s who I am this is me I am who I am because of my blindness yes I do have a guide dog he’s a rockstar so I agree with you 100% and I totally agree.
I just want to say thank you for your videos I’m struggling so much in LA with transportation as a legally blind person I keep wanting to post a UA-cam video about it I just can’t seem to find the courage to do so. So thank you for continuing to post I hope one day we can colaborare.
Just smile! Hopefully you’ll be able to post a video about your experience. No two blind folks have the exact same experience and so many people still don’t understand what it’s like to be legally blind. Some just think either you can see or you see absolutely nothing.
JC5 Productions and my condition you can’t tell that I’m legally blind until I pop out my cane so people question if it’s real also it’s hard I would like to meet more people who are visually impaired in LA I need to know how they do it because I have moments of wanting to give up I feel no one understands the struggle. Thank you for making videos I hope you never stop!
I'm legally blind, have been since birth. It's crazy to see people talk about having less than 20/200 vision likes it's a bad thing. I've lived a better life and accomplished more than most of my sited friends. Your mind is the only thing that can hold you back. Life really doesnt have that much to do with visual acuity.
Hi, I just watch the video from James and came across your comment, I checked out your channel and loved a bunch of your videos! I wanted to write comments on many of them, but wasn’t able to find a comment section to do so. I wanted to reach out to you so I decided to come back to James video and find your comment again so I can reply to you. I hope you see this! You have a very impressive channel and offer a lot of really cool videos and insights. I am also blind, but I listened to some of your workout videos. I also work out regularly and value health and fitness. I also listened to some of your help videos which I also found it interesting and helpful. I think you have a lot of value to provide and I think you have such a great channel! I hope you find the courage to upload a video about the struggles you were talking about in this comment. If you ever want support or anyone to talk to you, please feel free to reach out to me, I really enjoyed connecting with other blind and visually impaired people. I also have a UA-cam channel if you would like to reach out to me there. Anyway, I really hope that you see this comment and I look forward to connecting with you sometime soon. Again, you seem like such a great person and you have so much valuable information to share! Have a great day, I look forward to hearing from you! Matt
I wonder how normal it really is to have 20/20 vision though... isn't that like perfect vision? Allthough most people are indeed sighted, lots of people wear glasses or contact lenses, so I guess it's almost normal to have at least some degree of vision loss. Just not enough for it to be considered a handicap. I've had glasses since I was three, so my vision has probably never been perfect. I don't mind it, because I'm definitly sighted, but I do sometimes wonder how it would be like to have 20/20 vision. Would be cool to just experience it once, lol.
LOL James I'm from the south. I asked my phone one time what is the forecast for tomorrow..... the response I got was... here is the forecast for Mars! 🤣
This is the start to a new Daily Vlogging series sharing my experiences, and messages while seeing differently. Let me know what you think?
I enjoyed it! Will you be doing these every day?
James Rath I like what you do I am a blind photographer as well. I love teaching people about blindness.
That's the plan as of right now!😅
Interesting🤔👌🏽
James Rath Thank you for inspiring us. You’re a hero, James. All the very best.
Thank you for this. I’m trying to move towards this mindset now with regards to my hearing loss. I’ve been focussed on trying to find the cause of it in the hope that there’s a cure out there, but I’m trying to accept it and move on now. I hope to say that I embrace it one day
I agree with you when you said it's important to change your mindset and collaborate with your faults. That's exactly what I started doing about a year ago and it made me feel so much better about my eyes.
James, you are an inspiration. Thank you for everything you do.
Great vlog post, James! My son has nystagmus, his vision is decent though. He is 7 and is able to ride a bicycle, something I never thought he would be able to do. We should all be so wise to learn to embrace our challenges! Thank you!
Hey mate found you randomly but am so glad, its great to see other people who are in the same situation as myself in regards to your disability thank you for putting yourself out there and just being you.
Thank you for sharing this video, James! I'm in another kind of acceptance process and your words made my day. Greetings from Brazil :)
Thank you for sharing. I will try to apply this empowering mentality in my own life. Legal blindness and living in a rural area with few opportunities gets me down sometimes. But, it's not all bad. I have a good family and my passion, writing. This message of collaborating with my eyes and deciding to be happy really spoke to me.
Great video, I have high prescription and nystagmus but I can see ok and can still focus. Really interesting to listen to your point of view and see you get on with it even with visual difficulties
happiness is absolutely a choice and i love the way you are embracing your blindness and not letting it hold you back from doing what you want!!! it's exactly this attitude that will help you disrupt the industry! rooting for you!
Thanks Evie!
Hey James, this is an awesome video! Thank you for sharing with all of us. You’re a very courageous and influential person here on UA-cam, I’m so glad that all of us in the blind and visually impaired community have you to represent us! Thanks again James, Matt
Im going trough that "accepting" phase and your vídeos have helped me a lot, im even changing universities and I've stopped avoiding talking about my ocular albinism. Keep the good work up man
Love your videos! Is there any possibility that you and Molly Burke can collaborate on another video? I know that you guys did a collab a while ago , but an updated/new video would be awesome to watch xx love from South Africa
This is so amazing, your an inspiration man.
My son Sawyer has the same diagnosis as you. I appreciate you sharing this!
Can i just say that after watching several of your videos i think that you have an uber awesome personality! 😅 Much success to you and your channel goals! 😄
Hi just found your channel I have an eye disease myself which affects my central vision it's so interesting to discover the similarly and differences between different eye conditions
Cool video James. I’ve never been able to explain my legal blindness to people very well. Thank you for making these videos that visually show what legal blindness really is. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you. I needed this.
Thank you for embracing blindness and making people aware! My daughter has ocular albinism and is 6 years old, she has fair skin but brown hair and green eyes she does not look like your “typical “ person with albinism. It’s so important to educate the world around us about visual impairments! Thank you for doing just that!
Collaborating is a really good way to talk about the experience of using technology. One of the biggest impacts I've experienced so far has been using fonts designed for dyslexic people when I read Kindle ebooks with the green screen setting. I just played around with the tech on hand and stumbled across the combination. I don't see more clearly, but I end up understanding what I am reading and can use smaller font sizes than before. Weird, but useful.
Thanks for sharing!
i love this. i have oculocutaneous albinism and my parents are always looking for ways to cure my vision. but i just want to do the best i can!
I like that analogy of collaborating with your disability rather than fighting against it. That part about family wanting to look for a cure. Oh man I’ve heard that one plenty of times. I mean yeah a cure would be nice but I’m also being proactive in making the best with the vision I still have.
Pondering and pandering. Who knew one letter could change the meaning of an entire word lol.
Thank you, as a fellow VIP I can appreciate your difficulties. I’m very near sighted. -27.45 Left & -24.3 Right. My vision is “corrected” through glasses. My left is such that it’s not much use even wearing my glasses. My right eye is dominant, the other just dances around, doing its own thing. Until the right is blocked and then it swings into action. Though I struggle reading with it. Just recently during a dark wet night walked into a bus shelter (not the correct way), been diagnosed with the beginnings of a cataract in my right eye. Got super depressed for a period of time. It’s not going to get better. But hey, that’s fine. Im registered partially sighted, so have a free bus pass, which here in Scotland allows me free travel on buses, trains and ferries. So I’m trying to get it covered. I too struggled at school and my mum was adamant that I was not going to a “special” school. I attended main stream schools, passed my exams (a lot of which I sat on computer) went to college and lately uni where I got bachelors in computing science. I’m a determined and focused “no pun intended” guy. Stay positive young man. Live your videos.
SKILM1 Stay strong man. You’re not the only one with the disabilities that you have.
Love from the core of my heart
I have an astagmus. Luckily I can see but only with contacts or glasses. It gets really frustrating sometimes especially when I’m tired at night. It affects my daily life and it’s really annoying. I’m glad to see someone accepting that sight with such positivity
Thank you 😊
i love -not being normal since in my opinion its better to be yourself instead of trying to be like everyone else, i don't like it when people ask me if there's a cure or if i thought of having surgery to cure my vision. I have to always explain their is no cure for retinal dystrophy and recently my step sister told me i should pray so that God will make me a miracle. That realy made me a little ofended as ive already come to terms that being legaly blind is part of my life and ive already learned to live happily with how I am, by making sure i find accessable tools and ways to have a good life and do many of the things that a sighted person can do. I love your videos they motivate me to do better and they chear me up if im feeling down.
You pretty much hit the on hammer on the nail pretty much spot on
Well im 22 too
I have -17D on my both eyes and i know how hard it is to acept the fact of your condition
Thank you
You’re right I have retinitis pigmentosa and there’s no cure out there at all and my parents have been praying for a cure or for healing up some sort crap like that and honestly I’m OK with it I don’t want to be “ normal” I want to be me that’s who I am this is me I am who I am because of my blindness yes I do have a guide dog he’s a rockstar so I agree with you 100% and I totally agree.
Hi james, is youre eye condition something what stays stabil or is it gonna be worse over the years? Love sabrina
What a great guy
I just want to say thank you for your videos I’m struggling so much in LA with transportation as a legally blind person I keep wanting to post a UA-cam video about it I just can’t seem to find the courage to do so. So thank you for continuing to post I hope one day we can colaborare.
Just smile! Hopefully you’ll be able to post a video about your experience. No two blind folks have the exact same experience and so many people still don’t understand what it’s like to be legally blind. Some just think either you can see or you see absolutely nothing.
JC5 Productions and my condition you can’t tell that I’m legally blind until I pop out my cane so people question if it’s real also it’s hard I would like to meet more people who are visually impaired in LA I need to know how they do it because I have moments of wanting to give up I feel no one understands the struggle. Thank you for making videos I hope you never stop!
I'm legally blind, have been since birth. It's crazy to see people talk about having less than 20/200 vision likes it's a bad thing. I've lived a better life and accomplished more than most of my sited friends. Your mind is the only thing that can hold you back. Life really doesnt have that much to do with visual acuity.
Hi, I just watch the video from James and came across your comment, I checked out your channel and loved a bunch of your videos! I wanted to write comments on many of them, but wasn’t able to find a comment section to do so. I wanted to reach out to you so I decided to come back to James video and find your comment again so I can reply to you. I hope you see this! You have a very impressive channel and offer a lot of really cool videos and insights. I am also blind, but I listened to some of your workout videos. I also work out regularly and value health and fitness. I also listened to some of your help videos which I also found it interesting and helpful. I think you have a lot of value to provide and I think you have such a great channel! I hope you find the courage to upload a video about the struggles you were talking about in this comment. If you ever want support or anyone to talk to you, please feel free to reach out to me, I really enjoyed connecting with other blind and visually impaired people. I also have a UA-cam channel if you would like to reach out to me there. Anyway, I really hope that you see this comment and I look forward to connecting with you sometime soon. Again, you seem like such a great person and you have so much valuable information to share! Have a great day, I look forward to hearing from you! Matt
You're awesome, I'm very happy I found your channel!
I wonder how normal it really is to have 20/20 vision though... isn't that like perfect vision? Allthough most people are indeed sighted, lots of people wear glasses or contact lenses, so I guess it's almost normal to have at least some degree of vision loss. Just not enough for it to be considered a handicap.
I've had glasses since I was three, so my vision has probably never been perfect. I don't mind it, because I'm definitly sighted, but I do sometimes wonder how it would be like to have 20/20 vision. Would be cool to just experience it once, lol.
Love from Bangladesh ❤️
LOL James I'm from the south. I asked my phone one time what is the forecast for tomorrow..... the response I got was... here is the forecast for Mars! 🤣
Hey
You have pretty eyes, 😁 so they may not be the best is seeing, but at least they are decorative. 😎
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I have nystugmus but it's only in my left eye!
Ah interesting!
Hey man I have Albinism too and see 20/100... Can't wear glasses or anything... Can't ever get in focus... Fun stuff
can't you even see your beautiful face? you are a very handsome man
Is anyone else 80% here for the education and 20% here his beautiful face?
Dandelion Penrose me