For Aria Mia Loberti, All the Light We Cannot See Is Just the Beginning
glamour.comBy When she was younger, Aria Mia Loberti had big dreams. The 29-year-old from Rhode Island loved to dance, sing, and perform, and thought about giving theater a try.
But her doubts held her back.“I was just like, no one's ever going to want me,” she tells me over coffee in Manhattan. “Because as soon as you disclose anything about yourself that's different, even if you don't look different, you're perceived as different.
People don't want to deal with that.”Loberti was born with the genetic eye condition achromatopsia, which means she is one of the approximately 6 million who identify as either blind or low vision.
So, she focused on other goals. She went to college, got her masters degree, and began working toward her Phd at Penn State, studying the ancient history of communication.
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