{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"#BlindTok Podcasts","title":"A Tomorrow Problem: #BlindTok E:12","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3819,"description":"In Episode 12 of #BlindTok, Murray Elbourn and Tammy Jackson sit down with Anna for one of the most candid journeys the show has hosted, beginning with a diagnosis nobody saw coming. Picture a fourteen-year-old soccer player who wears glasses only for the projector, until a routine eye appointment refuses to add up, no matter how many lenses get flipped in front of her. What followed was a Stargardt's diagnosis, a dad doing late-night research on a pre-TikTok internet that served up nothing but doom, and a teenager who decided this was firmly a tomorrow problem. Anna walks through years of quiet denial, a personal classroom TV monitor she insists was just a perk of being a gifted student, and parents who landed somewhere between bubble wrap and a plane ticket to Europe.College comes next, with accommodations, a marketing degree, and a leap into the high-stakes world of corporate consulting, where the question of when, or whether, to tell an employer about vision loss gets very real. Anna shares the kind of first-day-on-the-job moment that makes your whole body cringe, the Mac versus Windows reckoning so many people hit the second they leave school, and the bigger question of what changes when you stop hiding and start asking for what you need. Murray and Tammy fold in genuinely useful ground too, from vocational rehabilitation agencies that quietly cover tuition and equipment to the assistive tech worth learning before you need it. There is laughter throughout, including a sideways-shirt situation the hosts are openly inviting you to roast. It is a story about denial, independence, and what it really costs, and gives back, to finally say the thing out loud.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fXZKr9WpTcjUzDQvROVWF1RvvqUOPcJQjqu4vLOu2gU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODg2/OGU4MWE4ZTliYzg4/ZjRiNWY2MTdmMTVl/NzI4OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}