Blind woman shows YouTube blind life is what you make of it | Trending Now – Yahoo News
Licia Prehn suffers from a rare hereditary eye disease that causes near-blindness, but that doesn’t mean she’s putting her life on hold. She’s started a Web series to prove that “blind life is what you make of it.”
The Pennsylvania-born woman, now living in Finland, has taken to YouTube to show the world how someone who is nearly blind can perform day-to-day tasks.
“Since these Web developers liked seeing how I used the computer,” Prehn told the Daily Dot, “I decided to show them how I do other things.”
Her original video garnered more than 100,000 views, but she took it down after receiving nasty comments. But when a group of Web developers reached out to her, expressing their support for her video,
The video has only been up for two days and already has more than 40,000 views and many supportive comments, like this one from Blake Atkinson: “It’s hard for people who can see to cook, so keep being awesome. Good on you!”
The video is part cooking lesson and part backstory into her eye disease and personal life, including her newborn, who is also afflicted with the condition.
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