One way in which I cope with my blindness and attempt to break the ice with my sighted peers is to embrace the comedy that comes with the territory of being blind. To my knowledge, I was one of the first, if not the first, to create a Twitter account called @BlindieProblems back in November 2011 solely for this purpose. However, it seems a few others have jumped on the bandwagon, and I also found that I no longer merely discussed "problems." Blind humor is still my main gig, but I also post advocacy or current events things from time to time. Anyway, feel free to have a look see, as it were. ;)
http://twitter.com/BlindBlurbs