YOUNG GIRL WHO LOST AN EYE BECOMES BIONIC EYE MASTER
A young Chinese woman who lost an eye in a serious car accident has dedicated her life to creating prosthetic eyes that glow different colors.
In 2013, Xia Tong lost one of her eyes in a car accident. She was only 18 at the time, and she received a replacement prosthetic eye. Instead of losing confidence in herself and shying away from people because of her appearance, the young woman decided to leverage her situation to make herself stand out.
After studying to become a prosthetic eye technician (ocularist), Xia Tong started making all sorts of unique prosthetics for herself, which she showed off on social media, slowly building up a loyal following.
Xia Tong is perfectly capable of making classic prosthetic eyes that are almost indistinguishable from real ones, but she is best known for her “bionic eyes” that light up in different colors and even flash, at the press of a button. Short videos of her trying out some of these unusual prostheses have gone viral in China, and she recently got the attention of the media as well.
The 28-year-old woman said that she began making prosthetic eyes as a way of helping people like her deal with confidence issues. She had met a lot of people who had become isolated or had low self-confidence after losing an eye, and that inspired her to become an ocularist and to create better prosthetics.
Some people want realistic prostheses, but some, like Xia Tong herself, use their disability to make themselves really unique by having small LEDs in their prosthetics. This allows them to look like real-life androids or Terminator robots, and that is certainly attention getting.
Xia Tong’s story and her commitment to making better prosthetic eyes has earned mostly favorable reactions, with most people praising her boldness and her power to turn a traumatizing, life-changing event in her life into something positive.
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