It's happened again.

Carmen Jimenez, or Jimenez, J-I-M-E-N-E-Z, Carmen Jimenez, a 57-year-old woman from Madrid,

allegedly spent 28 years pretending to be blind.

After telling family and friends, yeah, I lost my sight. I had an eye injury and now I can't see.

So for nearly three decades all the people around her believed she couldn't see and treated her as if she were truly blind. She later admitted, yeah, I was never really blind.

I used the disguise of blindness to avoid social interactions like greetings and small talk.

I was never very social and I wanted to skip daily conversations.

That were just uncomfortable.

Now, that also meant that she was receiving

disability checks from Spain, which now she will face legal consequences. Yeah, that's the

same thing that happened to the guy, remember from Italy, that faked being blind for like 50

years. And he had been collecting disability checks because of his blindness.

And yeah, I just wasn't blind.

I just didn't want to work.

And it was, look, I told people I was blind due to a work-related incident.

And now I've collected all this money.

And yeah, sure that video recorded me uh doing things that

i wouldn't be able to do if i were blind well that's because i'm not blind ha so all these people

and i say all we know of two i'm sure there's probably a whole lot more that are faking their

disability just to get disability checks and then then now you've got to keep pretending.

Don't tell anyone because once you tell someone, it's over.

You got to keep up the ruse the whole time, especially if you're getting government checks.

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