This post feels so real 😂😂😂 I also love it when people ask what's wrong with me and I explain that I'm visually impaired and their response is "oh yeah I'm totally blind too when I don't wear my glasses I can't see at all!". Umm that's not the same thing but ok thanks for sharing.

The "asking God to heal your eyes" thing annoys me to no end. When I was doing O&M training one day, I was standing on the street, making notes with my white cane leaning against me. Some random person comes up to me and says they will pray for me so God can heal my eyes. And they literally started pray there on the street. I just grabbed my stuff and got the heck out of there.

The stupidest thing I ever heard, a very religious lady came and posted in the FB support group for the eye disease I have, saying:

"God cured me. I prayed to the lord for lactacting ladies and dousing my eyes in breast milk cured me."

Needless to say she got blocked from the group when she started dissing all the meds we are on ect.

I don't wear glasses because they don't help, so when I lean in to read something or bring it close to my face, people get this look and I can imagine they're thinking "Where's his glasses?" One time a cashier handed me some change and I misjudged the distance and dumped change everywhere. I apologized and told her that I'm visually impaired and she replied, "So am I.". I'd trade my optic nerves for hers in a minute, but I wouldn't want anyone to experience vision loss. I should probably carry an ID/signal cane more often, but I have just enough usable vision to navigate (mostly) without causing bodily harm to myself or others.

One time I was working with a friend at this expensive resort/camp. They had a 'make smores over the fire with a costume bear and we'll read stories' event. I was in the bear costume and she was the 'ranger'. A parent commented that they were impressed she could still read the book in the fading daylight. She replies "Actually I'm blind in my right eye!" and she goes on with enthusiasm to tell them she almost didn't get her drivers license because of it. I just stand there in disbelief of her lies.

I think I've finally got to the point where I don't really care if people ask these questions anymore. I agree that they're insensitive and out of line, but I try to see things from the other's perspective and educate when I can. Sorry you get them, you deserve better and perhaps some day we'll live in a world where people are more understanding.