Blindness isn't a tragic binary -- it's a rich spectrum | Andrew Leland

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:13.8	Andrew Leland's world is gradually shrinking.
0:17.5	In the author's 2023 talk, he explains how his disappearing field of vision has shaped
0:23.1	his perspective and understanding, and it has implications for how the rest of us see
0:28.5	our identities.
0:29.5	He'll explain after the break.
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0:38.1	Collective.
0:39.1	Join host Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter as she introduces you to leading health experts and breaks
0:44.1	down the health questions you didn't know you had.
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1:04.0	A white man with glasses sits at a marble table next to a plate of sliced pears.
1:08.2	Hi, I'm Andrew Leland.
1:10.3	I'm blind, and this is a Ted Talk about blindness, which is confusing for me and for you, because
1:15.6	just by watching me right now, you can probably tell I'm not blind.
1:19.6	For example, I can tell that on this plate right here, there are five slices of pear
1:24.0	arranged in a smiley face, or that a framed photo hangs on the wall behind him as a
1:29.4	photograph of a very sad hippo.
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