I Have No Eyes - But Raised 2 Kids Alone | MY EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY

SINGLE mom of two, Adriene, was born with a rare condition called complete bilateral cryptophthalmos which meant her eyes "stopped developing" in the womb. She has been blind her entire life - but that has never held Adriene back, as she told Truly: "I'm the type of person that figures my own stuff out, I try every possibility before going for help. Where there's a will, I'm sure there's a way." So when Adriene fell pregnant for the first time at the age of 19, she took it all in her stride - she adapted to find ways of teaching her eldest daughter Adrianna to thrive. By the time Adriene gave birth to her second daughter, Trinity, she knew all the audio cues necessary to care for her girls: "I knew their cries - the hunger cries, the bored cries, the 'I don't feel good' cries. It was easy for me." Now that her daughters have reached adulthood, they do help out here and there, but when Adriene began posting on TikTok to raise awareness around her condition, she began to receive "very judgemental" comments from strangers online. Some have assumed that her daughters "do everything" for her or that they take care of her - and nothing could be further from the truth. As Trinity explained: "My mother can do everything I can do. When we were younger, she did everything herself." And whilst Trinity says her mom "doesn't care what people say," Adriene does have a message for anyone who might make assumptions about blind moms like her: "How about you open the book before you start judging by the cover. Read the chapters, you might like what you find."

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