> What has been the most valuable support you have received to assist with being blind?

My most valuable support has got to be my disability pension, without which I couldn't live because I consider myself too incompetent to work due to my blindness. My iPhone has also been a valuable asset that ended up becoming way more useful than my computers since I went blind.

> What caused you to become blind?

I went blind 4 years ago due to a congenital glaucoma that got out of control, though I've always been legally blind with exactly 10% or 20/200 acuity without any other issues.

> What is the best and worst thing about being blind?

There is no best thing about being blind in my case, since I already enjoyed all the legal benefits of being blind without almost any of the drawbacks back when I had sight. The worst thing about being blind is that everything you do requires a non-trivial strategy and constant attention, so the luxury of doing things in autopilot ends when you lose your sight.

most valuable support: Probably disability payments

Cause: X-linked Retinitus Pigmentosa

Best and worst thing: There is nothing good about being blind, it is totally and completely bad and has done nothing but utterly destroy any semblance of a life I had. It has stripped me of everything I ever wanted to do and left me with nothing but "making do" with whatever scraps remain. I no longer live, I just exist. If there is anything good about it, it would be the sheer hatred I have for reality that fuels me.

Aside from the technology and training (OM) emotional support had played a huge factor for me.

Most wonderful support? The people who gave me opportunities to achieve and shine despite my blindness, or because of it. I think it gave me the confidence to go on and learn that achievements are good and the only way to go. I need to make it, I need to be good enough for myself, and in a lot of ways because of the sheer number of things I have done I feel plentiful. I feel fortunate, praise the lord.!!!

What caused me to become blind some of mal-genetic thing. Possible peters anomali, contained only in the eyes, praise the lord! Or some of scalio-plasia stuff.

I have cataracts, glaucoma, retina detachment, dried eyes, and a collapsed life.

Best thing? Knowing it doesn’t make a difference if you don’t let it, You can be just as hopeful and successful.

The wrose: I really don’t know. I am in the mind set, anything I fix, anything bad I can overcome. I was born to achieve and lead.

I'd say the best support I got was education accommodations. Braille, training, etc.

Caused by some strange series of events best summed up as birth complications, retinal detachment, sympathy syndrome, scar tissue, uveitis. In that order.

The best part, IME, only really applies if the vision loss comes very early, as in near birth. Which is to say, it's kinda horrifying how dependent sighted people are on sight, to the point of being seemingly incapable of imagining how to do something as simple as buckling a seatbelt in the dark. Sight is extremely useful, sure, but there are other senses and I'm glad they were never shoved out of my problem-solving space by the overpowered one.

The worst part? Probably the general public. Finding small things that you dropped, the difficulty obtaining books, and not having the option of taking a car all over the county on a whim are runners up. I can get around just fine, most of the time, but the reactions of other people when I do are terribly unpleasant and strongly demotivate me from going anywhere. If I could walk a couple blocks without someone finding it noteworthy—never mind the people who freak out and demand to come to the unnecessary rescue—that would be a *huge, huge* improvement.

(But no seriously I hate dropping small things.)