Welcome to Legally Blind!
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Welcome to my channel!
If you want to know what it’s like to be visually impaired in today’s world and in a third-world country, you’ve come to the right place!
This channel will feature demonstrations of what the world looks like to some visually impaired people, discussions of accessibility and inclusivity, reviews of visual aid gadgets, and more!
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How surprising to come across this channel while browsing for videos on low vision technology. The mere presence of the channel is a lesson in the diversity of the global blind community. It isn't hard to imagine why a blind person would get pulled in given the breadth of Maha's academic and professional achievements. Forget the blindness, this guy rocks on so many levels, the most apparent one being his disarmingly relaxed, unaffected conversation. This is someone who speaks to you as if you were sitting in his living room sipping chai. And that's part of the allure: sipping chai with an Egyptian who speaks impeccable American English or Egyptian Arabic on what it's like too blind. It should be no surprise that the frank conversations about being blind would be very familiar to anyone in North America or Europe, but somehow the combination of academic and profession prowess set against an exotic Middle Eastern backdrop are pretty compelling. It's comforting to be invited into Mahal's head because it's a reminder that many of the technical and emotional obstacles are equally shared among the visually impaired community, no matter how distant.
So glad to see it being appreciated, and I hope it will continue to be enriching! Thank you!
I have 20/200 vision and Im classified as Legally Blind. Severe Astigmatism, Extreme Nearsightedness.
Hi Maha, I just found your channel while searching for a video for my talk. You seem to be telling my story.... I am also RP, PhD in rehabilitation for Macular Degeneration and still doing research on same disease though my central vision is almost lost. Great to see you.
I have a PhD in Political Science. :)
Awesome Maha! Cool you’re starting this channel. I never knew the extent of your vision impairment. Makes your accomplishments in parkour even more impressive. Excited to see more videos from you!
I have a lot of questions haha! Any videos over these topics would be cool :)
What are some of the everyday things that you struggle with due to your vision, and what are the ways you work around it?
Are there ways to naturally improve vision if our eye sight is getting worse?
Are there safe ways to fix or improve eyesight through modern medicine?
What are cool gadgets or tools that can improve vision, help with vision, enhance vision, and etc.?
What are things that make our vision worse?
What are the most common causes for vision impairment?
What are some of the rare disorders that cause vision impairment and how do they affect vision?
How do you do parkour or more advanced training being visually impaired?
-Jonathan
Thank you so much, Jonathan! Will definitely be covering pretty much all of these topics and more in upcoming videos!
Can't really say I ever got to "advanced" level of training, certainly not in parkour, but possibly in soccer. I actually recently tore my ACL doing parkour (very strange and unlucky accident) so I'll be having the surgery and I'm kind of out for at least 6 months :((( very sad about that... But will be doing my physio and everything in my power to heal and come back quickly!
Legally Blind sorry to hear about the injury. But I know you’ll bounce back :). Naa you got skills, I still remember the first parkour clips you sent to us. So cool. Especially when compared to the general population. And awesome can’t wait to see!
@@TappBrothers You guys are the best :-)
Kudos Maha! You are a real inspiration!
Thank you, this is great! You must be very smart and please keep on adding more videos! My questions are about how do you go about being in big social settings or just in public in general? And how do you go about talking about your vision issue with others?
Um... Awkwardly :D Hahaha! The awkwardness used to bother me a lot and make me self-conscious, but now I sort of care less and accept it... Might just be part of being over 30 years old now! Thanks for the kind words!
This is AWESOME! I love this. Great job and you did amazing. Great recording and great production. And great message! How do you spell your name? Love the accent. A PHD? That's awesome. We should call you Dr. Legally Blind. :D Looking forward to more of your videos. 👋
Hahaha, thank you so much :-) My name is spelled Maha Khalil! I love your stuff too!
Yay! I'm so excited! I love RUclips and I really wanted a voice like yours in this space! You're super funny too!
Thanks! I love RUclips too! :-)
All the best & good luck, Maha.
Awesome Maha! Good luck with this project! Give us more Buchie ☺️
Thaaaanks!! :-)
Yes, he must make an appearance at some point :-)
Maha you are awesome! Thank you for your videos an courage. Could it be, that your condition is calles stargardts disease?
Greetings from Germany! Please keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! We did look into Stargardt's as a possible diagnosis, but it didn't really fit, even though the symptoms are similar...
@@legallyblind4215 Ok wow thats crazy/rare. Your videos helped me really a lot. I am dealing with my stargardts diagnosis and having a really hard time, saying "goodbye" to my sight... But channels like yours really help to look forward. Thank You!
@@Devork35 I can imagine, and I really wish you all the best on this tough journey! I'm also glad you found my videos helpful!! All the best
Best of luck Maha, I'm looking forward to your next videos :) and maybe one day it would have Arabic subtitles for non-English speakers in Egypt to be able to benefit from them. I can volunteer to translate sometimes :))
Thanks, Yara! This video should in fact have Arabic subtitles already! I uploaded them ages ago! I hope they still work!
@@legallyblind4215 Yes yes they work, I just somehow forgot that I need to put it on as they don't run automatically, my bad sorry :(
@@BreastCancerArabic No worries! Thanks so much for watching and commenting :-)