At the End of Sight

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Writer Andrew Leland talks with Phoebe about slowly losing his eyesight. He was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when he was in high school. "It was like, 'I'm going out in the woods with my friends at night. And oddly enough, I'm bad at it.'" Andrew Leland’s memoir, The Country of the Blind, A Memoir at the End of Sight, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.8	So I was a teenager, probably 15 or so.
1:04.1	And the movies is a big memory that I have
1:07.8	of just a friend popping out of their seat
1:09.9	and being like, I'll be right back,
1:10.7	I'm gonna go grab a drink or go to the bathroom and I would just think like
1:14.5	wow how you know it was like it was like seeing a friend do the pole vault or something you know like
1:18.9	how are they doing that and but then there was this cognitive dissonance because it's like that
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