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Graham Isador is losing his vision. Through Short Sighted's mini episodes, he situates listeners in the everyday experience of a blind or low vision person for an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.

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People don't think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he's an asshole. 

Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds. 

Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show's mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts. 

Get lost in someone else's life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.

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Season 1 | Run, Hide, Repeat: a story of a childhood spent on the run.

Season 2 | Welcome to Paradise: a courageous escape from domestic violence.

 

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EPISODES

Episode 2: How to tell people you're losing vision

Because there are no visual identifiers for Graham's condition, people don't think he's losing his sight. They think he's an asshole. Graham talks to his friends about why they think he has problems in social situations. Special thanks to Dan Barra-Berger, Yvonne Felix, Steven Aquino, Steven Scott, and Erica Peck. 

Access the transcript for Episode 2 here.

 

Episode 1: How to be a TV host when you can't see?

Writer and journalist Graham Isador has a degenerative eye disease. It's started to impact his day-to-day and his work prospects. He's been looking for the best way to talk about it.

Access the transcript for Episode 1 here.