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Pete Eckert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m trained as a sculptor. I have degrees in industrial design. But then I started to go blind, and it would make more sense for me to be a sculptor. I know how to cast and foundry work and all that stuff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Retinitis pigmentosa is an umbrella term for a number of maladies that begin taking your vision from the outside of the retina and work their way in, building a pigment\u2013 pigmentosa pigment. And eventually, it comes in and it clouds over the macula. So it closes off vision, similar to a camera dilating down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was a contractor. I was building residential buildings, and I was doing sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But blind people don\u2019t have much money, and so I live in a tiny cottage with a tiny studio in a tiny plot of land. And I was doing huge sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One or two of my sculptures could inundate or just completely cover the land that I own. And so I needed something smaller, and so going back to ideas and producing photos, you can have massive amounts of information, in digital or negatives. So they\u2019re easier to store and easier to produce. It\u2019s more in tune with the modern world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI adapted, but I didn\u2019t know what was going on. And it took a couple of years before I was diagnosed with what was going on. But I struggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m adapted to blindness. It\u2019s not my greatest struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been totally blind for about 30 years, and the hardest thing for me to overcome is the assumptions of sighted people. Not blindness itself, but the assumptions of sighted people. Their preconceptions, their prejudice of what it\u2019s like to be blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blind label encumbers a whole bunch of, like you say, spectrum of blindness. I\u2019m totally blind, and so when I function, people think I\u2019m mysterious or magical or, how do you do that? But it\u2019s a slippery slope. When you don\u2019t function, people think that you can\u2019t function at all, and actually, people start talking to you louder, as if you can\u2019t hear or grabbing hold of you as if you can\u2019t walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the best time in history to be a blind person. Technology, the adaptive aids and equipment, that dogs are, by law, supposed to be available and you can take them anywhere. We live in a very good time for blind people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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