Popular Car reviewer Julio thought his blindness was punishment for being naughty

He experienced stigma from even neighbors who instructed their children not to play with him.

“That’s how you continuously fuel stigma,” he said.

His passion for cars arose from needing to have a fulfilling life,

 “I started just going all out. I could see one meter. So even for the car, you see where the bonnet ends, my sight ended there.

So I used to like to bring the seat at least leverage on that ka small nione hapo kwa bonnet chini. But I can’t so I used to work with wide view but I was so much in tuned with my senses I knew this sight is for a borrowed time.”

He told Eve that he believed his blindness was a punishment for being naughty as a young child.

His mum cried a lot over his condition, making the young man blame himself.

“She used to cry every night to a point where actually as a child I was the one comforting her, telling her I was okay.

I remember there a time I got really mad, and I started questioning, ‘Like did God do this to me because of how naughty I was?’ Then my mum said usiwahi sema hivo,” and he shared his pain.