Boy, 7, who should have been blinded when he lost the visual part of his brain as a baby stuns doctors by being able to SEE well enough to recognize faces and play soccer

A seven-year-old boy who lost the visual processing center of his brain at two weeks old has shocked doctors by having normal sight.

The unidentified Australian boy, known as BI, lost his visual cortex due to a rare metabolic disorder called medium-chain acyl-Co-A dehydrogenase deficiency.

Now a report has revealed that BI is the first person ever to have normal sight without a visual cortex – he is able to play soccer, see colors and identify faces and only suffers nearsightedness.

New tests showed that his brain rerouted itself to make up for sight, leading researchers to believe that newborn brains can recover and adapt much better than mature ones.