Though he cannot see, Fitzville Martin maneuvers the keyboard and levers on the control panel expertly, quickly assessing what button performs what function.
He was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease. As a child, he could still see through his peripheral vision. One time, while riding down the street on his bike, he looked sideways in order to gauge where he was going. But a lady who walked by yelled at him, “Look where you’re going!” assuming that he was carelessly looking sideways.
His parents did not stop him from playing on the streets or doing what other children did. “They let me live. … It wasn’t, ‘Oh you have vision problems, so you can’t go outside,’” he said. Their attitude encouraged Martin to pursue whatever he wanted….
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