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Daniel Searle

Daniel Searle

Australian physiotherapist, TEDx speaker, and disability advocate who lost his sight at 16 due to Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.

Jul 27, 2026

24:35
And because you seem like what I've read online is doing some phenomenal things and it's something that your low vision or something that your low vision certainly didn't stop you from having some really amazing aspects of life
24:50
yeah and i think it's it was a challenging time and Yeah, not trying to point out that everything was rosy and it was easy and I just got on and went, oh, okay, that's fine.
25:02
There was definitely a lot of bumps in the road along the way and there was a lot of months really or longer years that I was still in denial.
25:12
Like I guess I still rejected help or the idea that I would need to change.
25:18
I still in many respects thought I'd probably just wake up tomorrow and it would be fine.
25:24
And living up in that, growing up in that small sort of town and a small school, I knew my way around my town and my school fairly well.
25:34
So I just continued to walk around as I had done otherwise.

25 MINS LATER

50:42
What else is going on with you these days? What are you up to? Just tell us a little bit more about what's going on in your life.

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