Blind Teen Shocked Everyone With His Way of Seeing

We want to introduce you to people that you should know, and this is definitely one person you should know. He's the perfect person to kick this whole segment off. His name is Ben Underwood. At the age of 14, he has people all over the country amazed. Just look at this. I'm Benjamin Alonzo Underwood, and I am 14 years old. I had cancer in my eyes when I was two years old, two weeks before my third birthday. They had cut out around here. These are breast pieces. People would tease me at school and stuff, but, like, yeah, I found my way around that. It doesn't affect him being blind. You know, he still gets around. We still treat him the same. We don't treat him any different. He doesn't see himself as blind, and that's the special thing about him. I play basketball, roller blade, karate. That's my best one. He sees with his hearing. That's a car. I use echolocation, you know? It's like a, just like a click. Oh, OK, it's a truck, I think. I just click my tongue, just... And then it'll hit whatever it hits, and then it'll come back to my ears. This is not his house. I ain't never been here before. That must be the kitchen. Is there stairs over here? Yeah, that's good, yeah. He doesn't want anyone coming inside from him. Ben's different. You know, everyone wants to play with him. It's his spirit that draws people in. I consider myself a regular kid. I'm not blind. I just can't see. Please welcome Ben Underwood. Like a little Chris Brown, do you? Yeah. All right, so here's the thing. When we were doing the meeting this morning, I said, well, we should definitely not have music and not have applause when I introduce Ben, so that he can do the clicking thing and find his way out here. And he's like, no, no, no. I just put music on, and just... And so all I did was I said his name a few times, and he found, through that noise, he walked out. You're amazing. Yeah, I've seen your show, you know. I watched the little tapes you guys sent me, you know. I saw y'all having fun, so I came here. I want to have fun with y'all. Now, what do you mean by that? When you see the show, you've seen the show, and what do you get from the show? I completely speak, like, visual. So, you know, I get the same thing everybody else gets, you know, by vision. Uh-huh. So you can tell we're dancing and having fun? Yeah. That's amazing. I heard everybody out here clapping and stuff. Y'all having fun. Yeah, we are having fun. All right, so let's talk about this whole thing. You just came up with this echo location thing. Did you know that that's what is, like, a sonar device, like dolphins or bats, or did you just start figuring this out yourself? At the very beginning, I didn't know it was for dolphins and bats. But now, yeah, I began to figure it out when I was little, when I was seven years old. Mm-hmm. You just started clicking, and you knew that that would, you'd see how far away something is. Yeah, like, okay, first I was at camp. I first discovered it at camp. I was like, you know, we were in the lodge. Me, I was a little kid. I was seven years old, and we were all making noises and stuff. So then after that, when we left the lodge, I was making noises, and then it became a habit. And then I figured out it was working for me two years later. Wow. And then, yeah. And, like, by cars and stuff, I could tell, like, if the car's like this, and I'm standing on the side of the car, I can tell, like, where the end of the car is over here. And, like, it takes longer. That's how I know how long the car is. If it's, like, a short car like this, just this long, I'm standing right here, it'd be shorter. If I click, it would get to the car shorter and shorter time. That's amazing. And you just walk around on the sidewalk and don't worry about anything? Yeah, you know, just like everybody else. Yeah. That's incredible. What would you attribute your coolness to? How did you get to be so cool? I got this from my mom, you know, ever since day one. Yeah? She's been telling me, you're Benjamin Underwood. You have to attribute all of this to you. And what did you tell him to make him just turn out this way? Well, his name is Benjamin Underwood, and you can do anything. There are absolutely no impossibilities. You know, and I will not let anyone tell him that he can't do anything. There's something that he can't do. Yes, he can. He can figure it out. He bump his head once, he won't bump it the second time. Wow. So you didn't treat him any differently? Not at all. You didn't give him special treatment? So you didn't allow him to feel sorry for himself? Oh, never. And if I felt sorry or if I needed to cry or go through what I needed to go through, I'd go in my room. He never saw me cry. He never saw me, you know. You know, to tell him, I've never told him he was blind. That was one word we never used. Look at this, you know. He looks out the peephole in the door, and I said, Ben, who you see out there? You know, and we joke about it, and, you know, it's our life, and that, you know, we make the best of it. Well, you're amazing, too, because you're a single mom. You have five kids. Is that right? Yes. So you have, I mean, for him to turn out like this, I can't tell you how wonderful a person you are. Oh, wow. Thank you. I mean, that's a... So, and what do you want to do? I mean, you really, it seems like you can do anything you want to do. What do you want to do when you get older? I want to be an inventor, actor, writer, and a game designer. That's all. All right. I don't know what this is, but you're gonna know what it is. Let me try to figure it out. Is there a card? Hold on. All right. First, hold this, and you try to figure out what it is. It is Nintendo's giving you a brand-new game. It's not even out yet. It's the Nintendo Wii. It's not even in stores yet. The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. Whoa! Are you serious? Things that, and all these new, these new things that aren't even out yet. I mean, there's... Yeah, I saw the Nintendo Wii on the Internet. Yeah, so, yeah. So that's all for you. And that's right. Yeah. All right. Damn. If you know somebody that we think that we should, that you think we should know, go to our website, let us know about it.