"My favorite color is blue, but I have never seen it": how a blind from birth guy from Astana lives (5 photos)

20 July 2023

Ardan Galymuly is a 25-year-old native of Almaty (now lives in Astana). He was born blind. From childhood, he was protected by his parents, and older brother and sister, on the contrary, taught to live independently. In adolescence age, the boy already cleaned the house himself, stoked the stove, chopped wood.





Ardan studied at a boarding school, where he lived for six days in week (Sunday - home day) with the same special children. Then he became interested in sports and now travels to competitions as part of the Paralympic Kazakhstan national goalball team.



Ardan is married, his wife was not embarrassed by her husband's disability. According to him words, he won his future wife with jokes, and she conquered him "from the first view". Now Ardan is also a blogger: more than 40 thousand subscribers to him. a person who is interested in observing the life of a blind person does not lowering his hands, but enjoying life.



Using the braille display, Ardyn can read and respond to posts on social media. His wife and friends help him maintain an account.



Ardan often talks about some interesting things, about which sighted people have many myths. He recently answered the most tricky questions.

- Do you dream?

- Yes, but only in dreams I also do not see anything, as in life. The brain understands who is nearby in a dream, in what situation I am.

- How do you represent other people?

- I can't imagine the face, facial features, I don't think handsome person or not. I can understand the character by the voice, in what state person: upset or happy. Sometimes I can identify a complete person or thin.

- Can you distinguish colors?

“I know them all, even how they fit together best. My favorite color is blue but I have never seen it.

- What do you see?

- There is no blackness in the eyes: I see the light, the sun, and large shadows if they are close.

- Is it true that other senses are heightened in the blind?

- I just pay more attention to other ways to get information, because through the eyes I can not. I listen to everyone sound, I feel sharper smells. I don't just focus on sight.

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