Meet the blind gamer who is also an esports star in the latest Totally Game
Zoe Espinoza talks to Tot🉐ally Game about the challenges of being a blind gamer

Meet the blind gamer who is 💫also an esports star in the latest episode of Totally Game.
Zoe Espinoza, 29, who also goes by the name of the 'Sightless Sensi', has a condition called Leber congenital amaurosis. This condition affects their sight, leaving them "profoundly blind" according to the World Health Organization, but this hasn't stopped them from becoming a skilled fighter on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mortal Kombat X.
Espinoza, who is from Austin, Texas, tells Totally Game: "One of the most mo🦄rbidly satisfying things to do in a fighting game is to demolish someone completely and utterly - to tꦍhen inform them that they were defeated by a blind opponent, it drives home the obliteration of their sense of pride in their technique.
"Being able to do that to someone who intrinsically should be better than me is a cruel buꦍt satisfying pleasuꦿre."
These skills take a lot of time and practice to hone, something which they're more than happy to do the hard yards for. Espinoza explains: "Being a blind gamer means I have to prac🧔tice four times as hard to be a quarter as good. A sighted person can pick up a game and go straight into it."
This practice has paid off though, leading Zoe to sign for an all-disabled es🍨ports team PermaStunned, who provide a platform for disabled gamers to compete against non-disabled gamers and aims to normalise the need for accessibility within games.
Zoe also has a YouTube and Twitch channel, , where they streaꦫm with their wife Kesley. Zoe tells Totally Game: “The comments we get are very positive, a lot of people are very surprised. Occasionally I do get people who question if I'm blind, but it&r𓂃squo;s usually not from a place of hostility.
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“I look at that as an opportunity to educate people. That's why I make videos in the first place, to show people all the things blind people can do.”
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