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Navigating life and skateboarding with vision loss
Explore the inspiring journey of a skateboarder facing vision loss from retinitis pigmentosa, and his return to the skate park.
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I had a just normal childhood. I, you know, was
fully sighted. I didn't drove until I was about
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mid-20s, but I found out that I had a disease
called RP or retinitis pigmentosa, and I was
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diagnosed when I was 13. I just went in for like a
routine eye exam. An optometrist noticed something
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a little bit off, sent me to a bunch of
specialists, eventually got diagnosed
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but still didn't affect me until, you know,
my mid-20s is when I started to actually have
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kind of more severe vision loss where
it affected my day-to-day living
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And I was super nervous in the beginning, you
know, skating beside a skate park when I knew
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there's other skateboarders around. I don't know
how people would take me. People were going to be
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like angry if I'm in the way and stuff like that,
and then just kind of doing it and then realizing
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like people were kind of, you know, they're stoked.
They weren't mad or angry at all. They were hyped
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to see me out skating again
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