Hello, I'm Devin Smith I am 25 years old and am pretty new to the Internet.

This page is all about me and what I like. My Step dad (Mark) put this page
together so my friends can find out more about me.

I was born neurologically and visually handicapped. My mom was a school teacher while she was pregnant with me and a student came to school with Rubella.

We think that it may have contributed to my neurological problems. At first when I was born they gave me too much oxygen because I needed it and it burst the blood
vessels on the backs of my eyes. This created scar tissue that causes my blind spots.

No one really knows how I see because it changes all the time caused by my scar tissue moving on the backs of my eyes. I can't really tell anyone how I see since I've never seen any other way. This is frustrating for me as well as my parents and the doctors.

I will do my best to try to tell you my whole life story here. It'll take a few pages but hey you never know, it could be very interesting to you. :^)
Read on if you dare.

Currently I live in Kalamazoo MI with my bud Gabe, he's also blind. I met him at the Commission for the Blind and we've been friends ever since. I'm hoping that the two of us living together can over come many of our own individual short comings and work well together. Gabe is better with Brail and stuff like that than I am because of my neuro issues. I see a tiny bit more than Gabe so I can help him with that. I think we work pretty well together so far and it's been fun having someone like me around all the time. We've both worked in Kazoo at Midwest Blind Industries making things for the soldiers overseas.

Someday, the doctors say when medicine gets the point of Star Trek's Technology
they might be able to cure me or Gabe so we can see correctly and possibly fix my neurological problems. In the mean time wejust do the best we can and have my parents and my sister help me in any way they can. If I seem a bit frustrated or quiet it's because it is very difficult to adopt to my surroundings and move around as well as a fully sighted person.

Don't feel sorry for me because I have a good life, I have a good family and they love me. Gabe and I get around pretty well really and we live in a town that is empathetic to blind people like us. Kalamazoo has a large blind community anyway plus the Commission is here as well.

Check out this picture of me dressed up as the Notre Dame Leprechaun. My aunt and uncle took me to a ND game dressed like this and lot's of people thought I was the real mascot for ND. I was pretty cool several people took their picture with me. I think I'm going to have Mark help me write to ND and see if they'll make me the mascot's mascot.

I also love video games, sports, movies and music.
I have a Sony Playstation (click below to check out Sony's way cool site)

My sister Natalie has my old Atari Jaguar and my old Nintendo. We love to play games together and of course we fight just like normal brothers and sisters do.

I'm a huge Chicago Bulls fan and you can get to their site by
clicking on the Bulls animated log below.

I'm also a HUGE hockey fan and my favorite team is the Detroit Red Wings.
Click here to go to their cool web site!

I like to listen to recorded books from the Library of Congress's Recordings for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped. If you want more information on them
click on the link below. They give out free stuff to people like me who need it.