Blind for 15 Years Until Her Brain Decided to See Again
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The B.T. Woman is the only case of its kind as far as we know.
After an accident she woke up completely blind. Her eyes were physically fine but her brain’s visual centers were damaged and was diagnosed with cortical blindness. She lived that way for 15 years. Then while she was in therapy for a completely unrelated diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is where you have multiple identities, she discovered that one of her 10 identities could see.
Eventually, doctors found that 8 o
