Blind, not broken | Annie Brady | TEDxBuffalo
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2019
- Listen as Annie captures our attention discussing her struggles and triumphs as a blind person trying to gain employment. Annie Brady is a blind singer, activist, writer and RUclips creator who will be giving a powerful performance piece that shares her personal experiences with blindness - the good, the bad, and the empowering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I was born blind. It annoys me when people either don’t take me seriously, or they get impatient with me if I constantly touch everything, run into things or ask questions about what certain things look like. I was miss-treated by my caregiver due to things about my blindness, and I was punished for doing things that benefit my blindness. I was told that I was unmotivated and that I was choosing to not have a job because of being blind, and that I was using blindness as an excuse to not have a job. We’ve tried finding jobs here where I live, and there’s not a whole lot. I’m a musician, and even though I don’t make money off of it, I feel like it’s the best job and reward I could ever ask for. I’ve been bullied due to being blind, but I’m still living, I’m still going with life, and the bullies will never bring me down. They used to, but they don’t anymore.
I am blind and I really hate the way sighted people sometimes treat blind people like babies. I also hate when people see my blindness as the only aspect of my personality. So please, share this video! Like this video!!!
This is the TED Talk I’ve always wanted to give. Thank you for giving us such a powerful voice and representing us so well. ❤️
I have knobloch syndrome... And I am becoming a chemistry teacher because I WANT to! 😊 Not to be an, "inspiration"!
Thank you for helping me figure some difficult things out, Annie!!!
You go girl! You are a role model for all young girls. Beside having a fabulous voice!
Omg, I am crying right now. I just love you Annie and what you stand for and for all other "blinds" inc my husband who has severe end stage glaucoma. You go girl and never ever stop. You're in my heart and in many others' I'm sure. Deep respect. 👍🏼❤
I have been re diagnosed with acute chronic end stage glaucoma sarcoma eye cancer and had to have both eyes removed, but I know where Annie is coming from I'm proud to be that 28% and Tell you the truth if I could trade blindness for sight I have accepted the new reality of my life being eyeless there wasn't any surgery to correct this glaucoma sarcoma not even the doctors knew I had eye cancer and the only way to remove the cancer is total inoculation
Thanks. U. For encouraging me. And. Keep. Up. The. GOOD. WORK,,, THANKS. AGAIN
I really appreciate somebody like this who is willing to share their life story and her everyday lives pain🥹
It is true. Life of legally blind people from underdeveloped countries is pretty hard. I am legally blind, and I struggle a lot to earn incomes.
I am so sorry to hear about that. I hope you will one day find the job and the support you are seeking that makes you happy. Best of luck to you.
This is great. Made me cry 😭
Very interesting point about suddenly having the opportunity to become sighted. As a sighted person, if I had grown up in a society where everyone had a sixth sense that was "the most important sense" (or at least, was widely perceived to be the most important), would I suddenly want to gain that sense, say, in my mid-20s? It could be more trouble than it's worth, for reasons you touched on. Particularly if it costed $450k to have only part of it. I think I'd rather keep doing what I'm doing, and maybe have a nice house instead! I just never really thought about this, and you made a very compelling argument.
My granddaughter is Deaf and feels the same way as you
she Definitely thinks outside of the box
She is a teacher and teaches ASL
I wish that this was close caption she would relate so much .
She also said decided that’s who she is deaf would never want to change it she said
An amazing speech Annie.
This is one of the most inspiring ted talks I have ever watched
Amazing and very inspiring.
THIS WAS AMAZINGG!!! great job annie!
Great insightful talk. Thank you.
That applause was fantastic! Go blind people!
I have a job interview Monday over video and I’m soooooo nervous to the point of severe anxiety.
It never gets easier but I have to still try 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks for the video.
Hey, how'd it go? :D
Yes! So good and I am with you fully!
The other side of things is that a lot of blind people grow up with no expectations they will get a job or make anything of themselves so they don''t even learn some basic social or behavioural skills needed for getting a job or being successful in any other area of life.
A huge bravo💪👍
you go girl :D
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You have most excellent annunciation!
how to contact ms brady? i lost 90 percent of my eyesight in anoperation, lived with this for 3 years, now i got 50 % back and lost 30 % again. the up and down by my brain to adjust is something i would like to share.
I found her on Facebook a while ago. And I might also be able to help you, although I amb totally blind like her, not visually impaired. So I am not sure what services would be beneficial for you, because I don’t know how much you can see.
@Venomous I can’t see any light at all.
@Venomous there is a voice that is built into the iPhone settings that you can turn on so that you can hear what is on the screen. It also tells you which keys your fingers are on when you type on the keyboard. I can also use dictation to speak my messages, just like some people who can see. I have noticed that even some sighted people find that a lot faster than typing.
@Venomous no need to be sorry for asking! I was born blind because I was born three months early. I only weighed 1 pound and 11 ounces. And when I was born, my retinas did not fully develop. My retinal disease is called retinopathy of prematurity, so it’s a different disease than the one Annie has.
@Venomous Lebers congenital amaurosis. Not sure what it specifically means, but that’s the name of it.
It’s so exhausting, I’m also blind, trying to get a job.
@Subham Biswas is that a joke?
What do you see yourself doing? I was born blind, and I’ve been a classroom music teacher for nine years.
@@kadyh I don’t think it was.
Even before I became legally blind in 2012, I was disabled, by everybody else's standards. By my stsndards, I've always been me. That's what matters.
I wonder where she is now
💪❤️
I have Lebers' and I know the hallowness
why do i hear Amy Adams
Great job Annie! (For a blind girl.......😉)
What is that supposed to mean?
@@alika207 It means that I love you, Alex.
@@Rolando_Cueva i’m blind also. Thank you.
The people who are more blind or disabled are those who don't take the time to unfrrstsnd.
If it was $5, you’d get it. The prohibitive factor is cost lol. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Take that faith and go after Jesus and you will see again.
She has never seen and doesn’t want to. Lots of us who were born blind feel this way, including myself.