As a person who once could see but now cannot I have been trying to find things to do in my spare time. There are also moments that things just feel too hard, if you know what I am saying. Thankfully as time passes those bad moments grow farther and farther apart, maybe one day they will dissapear. After all, time heals all wounds. In my hunt to find a new hobby I came across a few things.

When I could see I played mainly creation type games and stratagy games. Games like Civ and Simcity as well as Starcraft and of course Minecraft. Few could match me in minecraft, That game was the greatest I have ever played. So I figured I would move into more phsicall activities after my sight loss,. I found Lego and it helped a bit. But it was too close to Minecraft and caused those bad moments to occur. Relizing that the wound was too fresh to attempt lego I moved into something I had not touched in years.

I found Transformers. Transformers have a few things about them that help me and maybe you as well. First they are 3-D puzzles that require certain steps and certain forces to make the transformation happen. This little bit of order in a world that seems so un-orderly can help to ground oneself. Puzzles were a favorite of mine before the loss of my sight and I did miss moving pieces into place and revealing more of the finished work. Transformers are not quite the same but they are closer than most other things.

Secondly in my hunt for 3-D puzzles, before I discovered transformers again. I found that those types of puzzles are not so much diffcult to find as they are expensive. So being that traditional 3-D puzzles are both hard to find and expensive to boot, I decided not to try that route. Then back in April of 2020 I found it.

I was at Target with a friend picking up needed things like Tp and Milk. When I asked my friend to take me to the toy section so that I could look for a toy for my nephew. While we were walking down the deserted isles I asked him to look around and tell me what he saw. I was asked what a Constructacon was and my inner child woke up and screamed "MINE". If you know nothing about transformers know this, Devestator is what you get when you combine all the Constructacons together. I had always wanted to collect the pieces and make a Devestator of my own. Fortune shown on me that day because I happened to have covid money burning a hole in my pocket and that's why I told my friend to toss it in the cart. We bought the last roll of TP and headed home.

While transforming my transformer at home I found my mind was settling down. The hands were moving but my mind was getting the broom out. It took me some time to figure out that first transformation but I did not stop there. After all, I needed 7 more constructacons to make Devestaor. I didn't stop there though. I was hooked transformers were what I was looking for. As hobbies go it ain't bad and each time I transform a transformer it is as if I am meditating. My mind streches, the brain gets the broom to all those little cobwebs and brushes them out.

Now we get to the reason I am writing this. While transforming some transformers I got stuck and needed help so I turned to Youtube. But there were very few videos that had the discriptions I needed. They usually said things like "Move this part here." and "Grab the red section and fold it this way." These reviews were not much help. I needed to ask a friend to help me sometimes. Then I had the idea.

Not every blind person has a sighted friend constantly on hand. Maybe if if the blind get into transformers then they would need someone to help them with directions. Some transformers can be difficult if you don't know which panel to fold where.



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There is also the chance that you will force something that which will break. So I created a YouTube Channel to help.

'Blind Prime' is the name of my channel. Blindformers is the name of the series to help the blind and the visually impared transform their transformers. Go to my channel and watch and/or listen as Blind Prime teaches you how to transform these cool little 3-D puzzles.

The channel is still growing and so far I have 18 videos up. As I get them I will transform them on video with discriptions to help. So if you want to see if transformers are right for you, go to my channel and listen for yourself. I will give a link below for my newest episode. Please give it a listen/watch and tell me what you think. I want to make sure that I get this right because no one else has. :)


P.S. I use my phone and for some reason the link ended up in the wrong spot. -shrugs- So I spaced out everything to insure that you could click on it without the rest of the text gets in the way.

TLDR: Lazy bones, scroll up and read.