CANDIDATA AL MISS FLORIDA ES LEGALMENTE CIEGA

Julio 12, 2012

Miss Florida USA Contestant Is Legally Blind

When Connor Boss looks out into the crowd this Saturday as she competes in the Miss Florida USApageant, she will see audience members only as a blur.

Boss is the pageant's first legally blind contestant. At age 8, she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, a genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss. Now 18 and soon to be a freshman at Florida State University, Boss prefers that her blindness be kept under wraps, her mother Traci Boss said.

"She doesn't want to be judged on that," Traci Boss said. "She doesn't want a sympathy vote or a pity vote. She wants to show people that she could do what anyone else does."

When glasses failed to improve Connor's deteriorating eyesight, her parents said they knew their daughter was facing an unusual challenge.

Connor still has peripheral vision, but she cannot read anything smaller than 36-point font. Throughout middle and high school, she read enlarged textbooks and had her exams read aloud to her. She struggles to make eye contact and occasionally finds herself in men's bathrooms.

At last year's Miss Florida USA contest, in which she won second runner-up in the teen category, her poor depth perception caused her to stumble on the stairs leading up to the stage during the swimsuit segment.

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Si no entienden vayan a google translate lol jk.. En resumen dice que a los 8 años le diagnosticaron una enfermedad genética que causa pérdida progresiva de la visión, que no quiere ser reconocida solo por eso sino que quiere demostrar que puede ganar como cualquiera lo haría..

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Editado Julio 12, 2012 por ♔ Ƥοιʂοɳ Ivƴ ♔