# Blindness is not the problem with Clint V Aiken

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Podcast: [Aaron’s Opinion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion-2998888)
Published: 2026-02-12T19:01:02+00:00
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My name is Clinton Aiken, I am 41 years old from Miami Florida. I have been blind now 13 years due to diabetic retinopathy, and God has humbled me, a little bit about me. I do work for FedEx Ground as a package handler come, I’ll call myself, Mr. blind boss because everything I have been through the past 13 years I have bossed up about it while being blind, I have had a kidney and pancreas transplant on February 7. It will be 11 years. I went totally blind in 2013, I am big on family. I love to have fun, help people, write short stories, enjoy life, live life, and just try to be the best version of myself I can be. I live my life by a model I have 99 problems being blind. It’s not one, that is my model because if I worried about me being blind, I would not be able to handle every other problem that I deal with along with me being blind. In this journey of my past 13 years, I have defeated diabetes, high blood pressure, dialysis, kidney failure, and I am in a boxing ring with blindness, being blind it may look hard, but if you put your mind to it, it’s actually easy, I prefer to be blind rather than inside it because I learned every day. I have to use my brain 24 hours a day to do everything that I want to do and I love it, it strengthens my brain. It makes me a smarter person. It’s called muscle memory. But for the most part, I am just looking to let my story be told so one day my story can’t actually inspire someone to do better about their health, if I could touch anyone with my story or about my story, I would love to touch the rapper Lil Boosie because he is a diabetic and he has a voice with that being said I would not want him to go through what I have been through and I would just like to tell him stay healthy, keep doing what you doing and you motivate more peo…

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