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When Jason Romero was 13, a school nurse noticed he couldn't read to the end of a seeing

eye chart.

That landed him in a doctor's office.

I was sitting with my mom and an eye doctor, and he looked at these tests, and then he

just blurt out.

You're going blind.

The doctor told Jason that he had a rare eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa, which

meant that as he got older, the scope of his eyesight would shrink and dim around the

edges, limiting his vision to a narrow tunnel.

And that tunnel would get smaller and smaller until one day it would disappear.

Then he asked me some other questions about what I wanted to do with my life, and I said

I wanted to be a doctor lawyer because to me that was the epitome of being a success.

And he told me to forget about it.

It was something that was really hard for me to hear because I had this stranger telling

me that I probably wasn't going to mount anything.

And then he told me that there were like five minutes before his next appointment.

That was when I was 14, and until I turned 44, I never openly told people there's going

blind.

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