Born Blind vs. Becoming Blind - What Are The Differences?

Tommy Edison teams up with Christine Ha (winner of MasterChef season 3) to show the differences between being born blind like himself and becoming blind later in life like Christine by having director/producer Ben Churchill asking each of them the same questions about topics like dreaming, eye surgery, and if they wish they were born blind or lost their sight later in life. Tommy’s blindness is caused by an underdeveloped optic nerve and Christine’s blindness is caused a rare autoimmune disease called Neuromyelitis Optica.

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Music Credits:

“Autumn” by Kevin Graham
“Franz” by Tomáš Herudek
“Like We Used To” by Sample And Hold
“My Only Love” (Instrumental) by Duffmusiq
“Born Twice” by Mark Tracy
“Embracing” by One More Time
“Once Upon A Time” by Alex Keren

#visionloss #eyesight #blindness

[Cellkist]

Dreaming in perfect vision and waking up blind sounds like the most heartbreaking thing holy shit

[A-Pro]

Man, Christina speaking about her dreams and then waking up to darkness broke my heart.

[Nobody-U-Want--Know]

Don’t worry Tommy, most sighted people aren’t able to just reach out and catch a ball either!

[whatchahowsya]

Didn't expect Christine's dream experience to hit so hard, emotionally. The things we take for granted.

[marcellaamanda]

when christine wants to drive and be independent and all that, tommy simply wants to catch a ball, it makes my heart cry a little.

[Kattytatty]

Waking up realizing you are blind over and over sounds like torture.

[treygc]

We need to invest massive amounts of money to the science of healing blindness. This dude deserves to see.

[purple]

“Saw in the mirror how much I’ve aged”

Oh trust me, you’d be happy to know you didn’t age bad.

[bekaemery]

Shes blind and she is better at making 'eye contact' than me

[ROACHO]

He thinks catching a ball is I just wanna go hug him

[wparo]

6:55 it happened to a grown up man before. After surgery the blind man could not understand what his eyes was seeing. He was always panicked and overwhelmed. His sensory nerves in his brain where not developed to understand shapes and light. I remember reading that after about 5 years of training he was just able to walk a few steps on his own to open a door but that about it.

[adolfhitmaker]

Losing your vision but still dreaming with sight? Holy shit that's depressing

[mrstefaneko]

She doesn't look like a blind person. She makes an eye contact, her whole body acts normally. I think I wouldn't have noticed anything unusual if she didn't say she's blind.
Respect to both of them, wish them all the best.

[TheFanguy]

dreaming with full vision and waking up to realize you're still blind
that sounds really depressing

[daniellebartholomew]

How on earth can 500+ people give this video a negative review?? The joy and enthusiasm with which Christine and Tommy face life, despite the extra challenges and losses they incur, is inspiring and humbling. Incredible people with a perspective we can all learn from! <3

[Everybodyfr]

0:40 "i lost my vision in my 20's"
me : oh wow that was pretty recent
"so starting about 17y ago"
me: WTF i tought she was like 25

[aitken]

It's really weird to think that Tommy has NEVER seen anything, so he doesn't even have a concept of colour or sight, he literally can't see ANYTHING, no sighted person can imagine seeing nothing, because when you try that, you'll always just imagine grey or something, but Tommy doesn't know what grey is so he cant imagine it. Him trying to imagine sight is like us trying to imagine a new colour.

[barclaypeo]

My worst fear is losing my vision, I don’t know how they do it.

[sirdurtle]

Christine: talks about an actual positive thing that she’s gained through being blind

Tommy: Talks about how being blind allows him to steal

[VictorBelfast]

She said it would be sad if she got her vision back and saw how much she aged lol. I think she is beautiful :0