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Paralympian Anastasia Pagonis Hoping to \u2018Change Perspective\u2019 with Fuse TV Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you search for Anastasia Pagonis<\/strong> on the internet, chances are you\u2019ll find her social media channels before mention of her Paralympic gold medal or world record. And it won\u2019t take long scrolling through her profile to understand what corner of social media she has so adeptly staked out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise then that the swimmer \u2013 who is, to quote her bio, \u201cchanging the way you \u2018see\u2019 the visually impaired\u201d \u2013 would jump at the chance to shift perceptions via another medium. Hence Pagonis\u2019 participation in the Fuse Channel\u2019s<\/a> \u201cLike a Girl\u201d series, which follows outstanding female athletes on their journeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The series, which premiered March 29, promises, \u201ccandid and intimate conversations on topics such as mental health, gender and race inequality, social stigmas, body image.\u201d This season has profiled WNBA player Angel McCoughtry,<\/strong> beach volleyball player April Ross,<\/strong> Jamaican transgender runner CeCe Telford,<\/strong> skateboarder Jennifer Soto<\/strong> and soccer player Madison Hammond.<\/strong> Pagonis\u2019s episode debuts Wednesday, April 26 at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

Subverting a pejorative like the one in the series title vibes with what Pagonis tries to do daily on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really fun experience,\u201d Pagonis said. \u201cThe whole crew was super amazing, which is always nice. And it\u2019s amazing that they\u2019re doing something that has a negative stigma, the \u2018Like a Girl,\u2019 and that they\u2019re putting it out there to change the perspective that people have on it. It\u2019s a huge impact, and I feel like it\u2019s very negatively approached a lot of the time. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it was really amazing to be able to talk about my disability in a positive way, because I feel like it\u2019s kind of negatively approached. Being a woman and having a disability is something that people kind of always think of the negatives instead of the positives, and it was shining light on the amazing things that I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a lot of what Pagonis has done in her career. She began losing her eyesight at age 11 due to autoimmune retinopathy and by 14 was functionally blind. The pool was a refuge, swimming her first para meet in 2017 at age 13.<\/p>\n

The Long Island native rocketed to national prominence, setting the world record<\/a> in the women\u2019s S11 400 freestyle at U.S. Paralympic Trials at age 17. She would lower it in Tokyo to 4:54.49 to win gold<\/a>, along with bronze (and an American record) in the SM11 200 IM.<\/p>\n

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Anastasia Pagonis; Photo Courtesy: Sea World\/Discovery Cove<\/p><\/div>\n

She shares the behind-the-scenes of her journey on social media, where she has 2.7 million TikTok followers<\/a> (plus more than 100 million video likes) and 332,000 followers on Instagram<\/a>. Her videos tackle the serious and not-so-serious questions she fields, from the earnest and well-meaning to the often thoughtless. She and her guide dog Radar supply answers, some with a justifiable hint of sarcasm to clap back when needed, all with the Gen Z sensibility shared by many in her cohort, which includes poking a good amount of fun at herself and influencer culture. (And plenty of her videos have nothing to do with her disability, just the kind of stuff you\u2019d expect from any social-savvy American teen.)<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not shy about using her platform to venture into serious territory, like a video that starts, \u201cSometimes I just hate being blind,\u201d where Pagonis talks to camera from her bedroom with a disarming sense of humor to get a point across. Her \u201cdark humor\u201d allows her to be vulnerable about the triumphs and challenges of daily life.<\/p>\n

Pagonis says her social media started \u201cas therapy,\u201d a way to get the things on her mind out there. The audience it found encouraged her to do more. That connection with people \u2013 who are struggling with vision loss or know someone who\u2019s been bullied for vision issues \u2013 spurs her to create.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started showing people, this is what blindness is and breaking down that stereotype that I feel like Hollywood has put in so many people\u2019s minds and breaking that down and showing people,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of people on social media are definitely younger generations, and teaching and showing them that this is what blind looks like, this is what a disability looks like, it\u2019s not what you\u2019re thinking it is. A lot of people have a hard time understanding it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mental health is an important facet of her swimming. She\u2019s been open about the sport as therapy, a safe space as her vision deteriorated. But she\u2019s not immune to the toll elite training takes mentally. Her humor tempers an internal intensity and desire to succeed in the pool that has only ramped up after her taste of Paralympic gold. The post-Tokyo comedown was real for her, and with just three years to prepare for Paris, Pagonis feels simultaneously like she just got back from Tokyo and like Paris is about to be here. (Just after we spoke was the 500-day mark to the opening of the Paris Paralympics.) Winning a gold didn\u2019t necessarily change the external expectations, but her own desire has grown.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also endured recent training changes. Long home-schooled, in part to accommodate her swimming, she\u2019s working with a new online coach as she tries to find a new training situation. She suffered a concussion that kept her out of the water in the winter. As an S11 swimmer, who relies on a tapper on deck to signal when she has to start her turns into the wall, regaining that feel and trust is a significant hurdle. She\u2019s unsure if she\u2019ll swim at the World Championships this summer, but she\u2019s taking \u201cbaby steps\u201d back into the pool with her plan trained on being at her best for Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like there\u2019s a lot of pressure that I feel like personally I need to succeed,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I\u2019m going to go somewhere and not succeed, I feel like it\u2019s a very mentally draining situation that I\u2019m in because you don\u2019t want to go there and not show up and show off. It\u2019s definitely super hard, but I know if I put the time and effort into it, I\u2019m super confident in it. I\u2019m sure Paris is going to be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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