Day in the Life of a BLIND Person in NYC

What would it be like to be BLIND on a busy sidewalk in the middle of Manhattan?
We were curious, so we found out.
For over 350,000 New Yorkers who are blind or severely visually impaired, this is reality.
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[@vickkhosa310]

Nothing makes me cry more than thinking about the blind of our society. I remember going to work early in the morning around 6 am years ago and seeing a blind lady that was ALWAYS there, I assume going to work, and struggling like the rest of us, using her cane and navigating her environment. Around that time I was very discontent with my life feeling sorry for myself, but when i saw her EVERY day doing the same thing I was doing, going to work out of sheer necessity, without the miraculous gift and privilege of sight, it made me weep like a baby when i was by myself in my room thinking about her and others in her situation. It's still hard to take. May the good lord bless their souls!

[@tiffanypenaguzman749]

Please don’t cry for us. We are normal people trying to live our lives. What you should be crying for is the sighted people trying to hinder us.

[@AnthroEd]

You guys deserve more views!

[@NowhereMenTV]

agreed :) thanks!

[@JohnLuna]

I love that we can learn details such as fostering 30 kids! She has great sense of humor too, that's why I gotta go out and make these connections. I empathize with her group. Yesterday I joined a burn survivor group to offer my support. I'm a burn survivor myself. I think it's really cool that you guys tried to see what it's like to be in their shoes. Great work!

[@azzizitracey7401]

I have Keteroconus it not easy for me but I’m fighting it god bless you love ❤️

[@blsdbyndmsr]

Love this❤ very encouraging. God is good

[@mithunbhakt]

Fantastic work!🤗

[@SeeingBlind]

Very cool video! Thanks for opening everyone’s eyes to us blind and visually impaired!

[@NowhereMenTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@truthseeker3907]

Thank You Guys, Keep up the Good Work!! :) Thumbs up Indiana USA.

[@NowhereMenTV]

Truth Seeker thank you 🙌🙌🙌

[@truthseeker3907]

:)!

[@yovanniangel1158]

This is so professional and informative not fair that it has 6k views

[@kendrakissez]

Such an inspirational story and it makes us appreciate our gifts of sight and hearing even more. Why is there no conditition mentioned for how Yvonne became blind? Theres always something that contributes to our outcomes.

[@landrezelvin9933]

I wish you would have titled it A Day in the Life of a Newly Blind Older New Yorker. What you saw was someone who gave up her jobs when she became blind, or so it seems.And if she's older already, not sure how old, that might make some sense. I see her struggling to create a life while a lot of older newly disabled people dddjust give up. It would be nice if you now did a piece on a day in the life of a younger long-time blinded person. Our struggles are not to overcome fear, but to overcome crappy sighted person attitudes, a city that ignores us in planning and thus does make our lifes more dangerous than they need to be, but also people who do all these things *while blind* - work jobs, raise children, sometimes foster childddren even when agencies have crappy attitudes about placing them with us, ride public transit even when we are not given the same level of access as sighted New Yorkers, engage in serious dance - even when most of the huge number of dance teachers in NYC don't want to deal with a blind person in their classes or to modify anything so it will work for us.We have the same aspirations as other people do and have full busy lives that are not about constant fear. Blindfolding a sighted person and sending them accross an NYC busy street is *never* done, is considered really risky, and in general, being newly blind is nothing like the experience of someone blind for more than even a year, so hilighting that experience only servse to reinforce sterotypes about our sad and lonely and fear-laden lives. This is just not accurate.

[@NowhereMenTV]

All very important points here. Of course, we as sighted people could never truly know what it's like to be blind for years - we can only put ourselves through a very quick, simple simulation for a couple hours which would never be able to do justice to what it's really like to live this way. This is our effort to understand a bit more. It's certainly not comprehensive or exhaustive, just a representation of what we experienced that day.

[@landrezelvin9933]

My point on the simulation is that you really don't learn anything that way. Cudos for trying, but research shows that this kind of simulation often has a negative effect on attitudes towards disabled people. Because the effect of suddenly having a new disability in the middle of a crosswalk has nothing to do with life with a disability and everything to do with fear. I am sure the purpose of your video was not to make more people more afraid of blindness and further limit our job/housing/dating opportunities, but these things really are damaging. A better simulation if you actually want one, is to learn to do something and learn to do it well, non-visually. If I were setting that up, I wouldn't oclude someone's vision but would find a way they couldn't see the task they were working onn. If you want to learn what it's like for blind New Yorkers, don't blindfold yourself at all, but put Chinese signs covering the English ones, provided you don't read Chinese, and, well, I could make a long list but you really didn't learn anything about what it's like using that blindfold except to perhaps raise your idea of how imcompetent we all presumably are. Or get the people watching this more focused on their own fears than on our reality when they meet us. I'm suggesting there is more you could do to improve those perceptions, if not in NYC, somewhere else, featuring the lives of competent blind people.

[@sannaslife6395]

I loved this video I am a blind KZbinr

[@NowhereMenTV]

thank you!! glad you enjoyed :)

[@zubeirje]

Uhhh..... why does this have only 9K views?

[@goldengirl617]

Yvonne is beautiful..

[@darlenemalone1871]

Oh My You Are So Encouraging I have RP how can I contact you I can learn so much from you.

[@MM-yh2mi]

Darlene Malone not sure if you are still looking to connect, but if so, consider contacting the National Federation of the Blind. They have offices in every state Anna headquarters is Baltimore. They have many great resources.

[@sillyblind]

It's like that for all of us, everywhere.

[@tiffanypenaguzman749]

We blind people do not count steps that’s a misnomer. She has learned is a pattern and learned where to go due to mobility training, counting steps never say that in your life.

[@vrlegend697]

If your blind why dose she wear glasses????

[@hamburglerkosh2049]

My guess is To protect her left eye which has partial vision