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