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Shot by His Father and Left Blind—Now He's a Hardcore Gamer
Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.
A woman waiting at a crosswalk looks at Minor, then at his white cane, and stares for a moment, before shouting past me, over the noise of the traffic, in a tone she probably intends to sound encouraging: “You sure are brave to cross this intersection like that.” As Minor puts it, he is in a “privileged position”: Back when he was shot by his father, people weren’t quite as desensitized to gun violence, he says, and news about family-annihilation cases wasn’t so routine. Minor’s work often involves stuff like this: cleaning up a well-intended dev’s mess; proposing an elegant (read: inexpensive) way to add accessibility to a game that was not created with him in mind.
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