Blind man with tattooed eyeballs slams merciless trolls who declare he triggered his personal sight loss

Juliusz has tattooed eyeballs and a split tongue – but he says he is often trolled and accused of faking his blindness, despite losing his vision to Neurofibromatosis Type 1 years before undergoing the extreme body modifications

A blind man whose eyeballs are tattooed black has revealed that he is regularly accused of causing his own sight loss, despite the fact that he lost his vision due to a rare disease long before he underwent the extreme body modification.

Juliusz, known online as InkedJuliusz, says he is frequently subjected to abuse from strangers because of his heavily tattooed look and white cane, with some incorrectly asserting that his eye tattoos led to his blindness. The 27-year-old, who also sports a split tongue, head implants and extensive tattoos, explains that his blindness was caused by a rare genetic condition that resulted in tumours growing along his optic nerves.

Now, he’s speaking out to correct misconceptions and challenge the myths that follow him wherever he goes. “The cruellest false claim of all is the recurring accusation that my eye tattoos caused my blindness,” Juliusz, from Kreis Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, told Creatorzine.

“This is medically impossible, and it is deeply distressing to hear it repeated. My blindness was caused by optic atrophy from optic gliomas in NF1, documented by multiple eye specialists, including at the University Hospital Dusseldorf, with medical certificates from October 2025 and January 2026 confirming the cause.

“The tattoos were performed years after I had already gone blind. The timeline alone makes it impossible. The medicine makes it impossible and yet the myth persists, and it wounds.”

Juliusz battles Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), an incurable genetic condition that caused tumours to grow along the nerves linking his eyes to his brain.

He initially encountered sight difficulties as a youngster. His left eye was nearly entirely blind from an early age, while vision in his right eye declined gradually over numerous years before medics confirmed he had also lost sight in that eye in 2022.

Now, he explains he can only detect light and shadow and depends on a white cane to move around independently.

According to German law, he is officially classified as blind.

Yet instead of receiving compassion, Juliusz claims he frequently encounters aggression due to his appearance.

He explained: “The decline began in childhood. There were vision problems noticeable from a very young age. My left eye was essentially blind from early childhood.

“My right eye then deteriorated gradually over many years. It was slow, creeping, progressive, never sudden, which is part of why it is so hard for outsiders to understand.

“I face hostility in public on a regular basis, dehumanising verbal attacks because of my appearance combined with my visible disability.

“I have been called things like devil or the devil’s work, which stings all the more given that I was raised strictly Catholic.

“As a blind person, I already feel particularly vulnerable, and on buses and trains I often feel genuinely unsafe, with a real fear of being attacked, both because of how I look and because of my disability.

“Some people seem provoked or made uncomfortable by the combination of a visible disability and an extreme appearance.

“The prejudice and the false narratives are what hurt most.

“People accuse me of faking my blindness, to my face, while I’m standing there with a white cane, unable to see their features or read their expression. That is profoundly invalidating. Strangers say things like ‘You’re just pretending, you’re not really blind,’ or ‘You can see perfectly fine, drop the act’.

“It’s deeply shaming, especially when the truth is that I genuinely only perceive light and shadow. Let me make this as plain as I can: nobody walks around with a white cane for fun, or as a decoration. I am not pretending. I am blind.”

Juliusz reveals his dramatic body modifications were his method of reclaiming control following years of illness.

He explained: “The disease had taken the function of my eyes from me. So I took the organ itself and made it entirely my own, on my own terms. The way I think of it is simple, if my eyes could no longer show me the world, then they would at least belong completely to me.”