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How navigating vision loss gave one man a new view of blindness

08.09.2023 - By CBCPlay

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As a teen, Andrew Leland was diagnosed with a hereditary eye disease that develops progressively. Now, in middle age, the journalist and audio producer describes himself as "near the end of sight." In his memoir The Country of the Blind, Leland reflects on his lifelong journey of vision loss and grapples with his identity, as he straddles sightedness and blindness. He joins Megan Williams to talk about how his experience taught him that blindness is not a binary.

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