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  • Extraordinary People - The boy who sees without eyes [1/5]

    Fourteen-year-old Ben Underwood has been blind since the age of three, but he hasn't let that stop him! Ben has learned to navigate by echolocation. Nope, it's not just for dolphins, although Ben has a great time swimming with them! Watch him demonstrate his amazing skill and stretch... more

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  • Reviewed by jdmeieronline on Mar 29 2009, 11:05am

    Extraordinary People - The boy who sees without eyes.

  • Reviewed by TheBSG on Mar 16 2009, 8:42am

    That woman is so beautiful, and I love her. I cried to see her strength. I realize now that my strength to deal with being crippled and getting over it and living like a normal kid all came from how strong my mother made me, and how she didn't let me feel like who I was wasn't normal. The idea isn't that she deluded her child into thinking he could see: The word "See" meant that he could do everything he could do before. He was the same person and he could function identically. No excuses or lies. Expectations and the encouragement to reach them. That woman is a hero, and her son a sign of independence and ability, and just how incompetent we really make ourselves out to be. Adversity and the wisdom to overcome it is not to be pitied or apologized for, but revered. The word Disability, despite its negative PC semantics, is a double meaning for "tried and tested." (Not that all crippled people overcome adversity. Some let it overcome them, they become bitter, and hate their lives.) Last thing I wanted to add: Some might be put off when she said "I want him to be normal." I think it'd be more accurate to say that she wants him to be seen and expected to be "normal." Treated no differently. When we have to explain our disability, it's very rare that a person doesn't change around us. Him being able to pass as normal isn't some conformity or normalization, and an abonishment of some psychotic identity he's supposed to uphold, but it's an enabling of social freedom. He shouldn't be labeled a conformist for wanting to go to the gas station and buy chips and come home without having to explain himself to curios people. We don't have to be unique in everything we do, however uniquely we do it. We're essentially accomplishing the same stupid monkey tricks as you.

  • Rated by HaoDesu on Mar 15 2009, 12:35am

    The sky is the limit

  • Reviewed by Mfschenk on Dec 08 2008, 11:23am

    Amazing! It's amazing how some people are able to adapt no matter what adversities they face. Truly remarkable.

  • Rated by CleverElsie on Jun 28 2008, 12:09am

    Fourteen-year-old Ben Underwood has been blind since the age of three, but he hasn't let that stop him! Ben has learned to navigate by echolocation. Nope, it's not just for dolphins, although Ben has a great time swimming with them! Watch him demonstrate his amazing skill and stretch himself to learn how to use some other navigational aides. This is the first part of five.

  • Rated by JakeR4 on Jun 03 2008, 9:49pm

    nice video

  • Rated by Kluedan on May 04 2008, 5:39am

    ....have a look to this, what does to be normal mean??

  • Rated by DeepBlueMe on May 03 2008, 6:07pm

    I think we could learn to hear other people's thoughts and feelings more clearly if we paid close attention and didn't think and talk so much. The art of listening. Amazing.

  • Rated by aries9 on Mar 12 2008, 8:03am

    This is extraordinary!