Annalisa Minetti: her blindness is getting worse, “it’s total black”

For those used to living in the dark, even a small glimmer of light can be a source of joy. So it was for Annalisa Minettisinger and Paralympic athlete, who he lost his sight at eighteen due to a severe form of retinitis pigmentosa. The illness had caused a sort of veil to fall over her eyes: since then, Annalisa had seen the world opaque, covered in shadows, but she had not let herself be discouraged by what she had defined as “mourning”, which as such had passed through different stages of elaboration: anger, pain, and finally acceptance and serenity.

Now however, the former contestant of Miss Italy and the Sanremo Festival tells that his situation worsened further. The dark shadows that enveloped his world have given way to “total black”, e the sight is completely gone. «A bit rosy, that I can’t see myself anymore. I am how I feel: today in overalls, and when I go on TV dressed as a hottie», Annalisa said in an interview with The truth.

The singer – now forty-six – has had, despite her handicap, an interesting career in the world of entertainment: after being came seventh at Miss Italy 1997triumphed at Sanremo Music Festival 1998 with Without you or with you, with which he finished first both in the Youth section and among the Champions. Then he returned to Ariston in 2005 paired with Toto Cotugno, finishing in second place. Putting aside her career as a singer, Minetti gave herself to sport, conquering the bronze medal in the 1500 meters at the London Paralympicsto then also win a bronze at the 2012 European Athletics Paralympic Championships and a gold at the 2013 World Championships in Paralympic Athletics in the 800 metres.

For her artistic and sporting merits, Annalisa was also nominated Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: his enormous merit was to bring disability into contexts where it had never been before (such as the most important national beauty contest), showing how limits and obstacles can be overcome. His idea? Inclusion as a lifestyle, and as a culture: «It seems to me instead that we are dividing the world into categories, and not into people, who each have a value. Homosexuals, people with cognitive impairment, the blind… It divides, it does not unite».

“For years I’ve been used to being told not to live and in response I live and will live more and more,” Annalisa said some time ago to those who criticized her for choosing to bring children into the world despite her blindness. Well, we are sure that she will continue to live vigorously, as she has always shown that she wants to.