This happens to me frequently. I'm total, but I have two realistic appearing prosthetic eyes. When you combine this with the fact that I am blessed with great spacial memory, and never use a cane or my dog to navigate familiar indoor surroundings, it's no surprise people sometimes forget. , Take it as a complement that you "fit in" with your sighted peers.

I've only been blind for 2 years, but lived my entire life visually impaired due to a congenital glaucoma; I had 15% of sight when I was a kid which degraded to 10% with normal contrast perception and field of view and stayed stable until I started to go blind 5 years ago. In addition to the impaired functionality, my left cornea has also been dystrophic since I was 8, which made my disability visible., so nobody could ignore it.

Being visually impaired didn't significantly affect my life. I attended regular school (despite the fact that I couldn't read from the blackboard), dropped out of high school to work when I was 17, and moved out of my mother's house when I was 24. The only thing that I couldn't do was drive, but I was lucky to be able to work from home, and at a later stage I did become a digital nomad.

All this to say that I've always been a fully functional member of society and that fortunately I've never been discriminated or treated differently due to my disability, and to me that was a good thing, because I hated to be reminded that I was disabled, something that I can't avoid now that I'm blind and have to come up with workarounds and strategies for everything.

It is very much scenario based. You can't expect anyone to be mind readers.

I am sight impaired, 28 and live alone independently, having being born with Nystagmus and Septo-Optic Dysplasia. As great and as supportive as my parents and immediate friends are they can only empathise and are not visually experiencing what I am. I typically move around without the aid of a white stick, but when going abroad with friends on a "lads holiday" It is always in use, Why? Because I don't know the area, and is an indicator for others to understand that if I bump into you...this is why, or need help, or is just a really busy area to name a few reasons. My friends would question why I don't use it all the time, genuinely asking because they want to understand and are curious, hell they got no problem guiding me! Once I tell them why I use the stick in these situations, it makes sense to them as they know now not everything is cut and dry with sight loss. Even coming from a meaningful, supportive place, education and understanding always needs to be developed. Just learn to be patient and accepting to others about your situation. "I don't need help at this time, thanks", "this is why I can/can't do this/that like I could the other time". I hope this somewhat makes sense! :)

I think this is more of a problem for people who have some sight. For me, I can't see anything, ever, so it's easy to explain, easy to understand, and easy for people to remember. I think problems start happening when you can see some things, some times. Even as a blind person, I am usually completely confused about what my parcially sighted friends can and can't see. So I assume it's similarly confusing for folks who are fully sighted.

I find my family and close friends sometimes forget I am visually imapired. It is part of my life and theirs, I have learned to adapt and i even forget I can't see as well as I would like

Eh it happens, mostly with friends or family kind of letting me wander off occasionally when we are walking together, I've gotten pretty good at figuring out when I'm starting to stray. I could remedy it with sighted guide but I really, really dislike using sighted guide so that's kind of where I'm at. My bigger issue is people underestimating my ability to figure stuff out with low vision.