Blind drag racer has a lesson about following your dreams: 'You can make excuses or you can make it happen'

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'I thought, like, I was doomed. Although that does sound a little immature,' Ted told CBS News. 'I really want to be like everybody sometimes.'

I chose this week's story mainly for an audience of one — Ted, my 12-year-old nephew who says his blindness sometimes feels insurmountable.

"I never imagined I'd be back in the seat of a race car. But I've been a racer my whole life, I just had to figure out another way to do it," Parker told CBS News. Of course, no blindfold was necessary. But he did have a special audio guidance system and, for safety purposes, a sighted driver next to him with hands hovering over the steering wheel, just in case.

 

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