Looking for something that I know I just put down and for whatever reason, its been moved, I misremember *exactly* where I sat something, etc, I can't find it. Along with this, not being able to quickly scan a whole area at once

Facts to everything above. The little comments that I consistently receive in my life have gotten so annoying that they don’t even phase me anymore lol. My favorite one being: “I didn’t think she’d be pretty since she’s blind”. Cus that makes sense :P One more favorite, only said once though, “You can’t see this(the chalkboard in my OChem class)? How do you live?”

When family members don't put things back where it was.

Rooms/hallways with "ambient lighting", I hate that shit so much. lol

Small font, or the font is a similar color as the background it's on.

That's all I can think of right now.

Almost all of my minor annoyances can be summed up as: sighted people. :D It's unfortunate but it's true. Everything else doesn't really bother me. I guess struggling to figure out whose name is on any given piece of mail in my mailbox, but that can also be attributed to sighted people and the love for small print as a standard.

When people insult me when I give them a compliment, especially about the way they look. “Oh the blind girl thinks I am pretty.” Dude if I’ve hugged you I know what your body pretty much looks like and if I get close enough I can see your face. You don’t have to take the compliment but don’t insult me in the process.

My friends can just stretch out on the sofa and use their laptops... on their laps... without needing to have their face 4in from the screen. It looks like such a comfortable way to just relax and browse the web. I'm kinda envious.

Oh I have a couple. Thanks for bringing this up!

Ordering from posted\\chalkboard menus when there isn't a printed one. Having the person at the counter look at me like I'm nuts even if I say "I don't see very well, do you have a printed menu?"

Poorly marked stairs because I don't have great depth perception and if the stairs look the same as the landings I can miss a step.

Trying to read packages on the top shelves or bottom shelves in the grocery store. (I am trying to use "Be My Eyes" for this.)

For me it’s probably the lack of freedom. I wish I could just run around on the streats alone, but how am I supposed to do that? Oh, and it's really hard to make friends when you can't see people, and people run away. I'm also pretty sure my blindness is a big part in why I was bullied at school and suicidal at 11, so that’s fun...

Being on the darknet and not being able to independently solve captchas because there's no audio challenge. Annoying as shit.

People on Reddit asking "well how do you type and read if you're blind?"

Like, do you not have the brain capacity to Google the things that they should have taught you in school? I'm not here to educate you on how blind people do shit when there's an amazing resource called Google, right at your fingertips.

On the sports thing, all I have is a small bit of light perception, we mute the TV so everyone else has a picture and sink the radio call up with it so I get good descriptions. That way I never have to listen to Joe Buck not tell me what’s happening.

Unless the light as a certain way and I'm up close, I can't really complement my fiancee on how she looks. I would love to be able to do that more often.

I would say this is a big one but the lack of confidence in yourself to accomplish what would be simple tasks for a sighted individual and overthinking things in your head thoss task will be harder than they actually are

I have a visual field defect I can see about 75 degrees to the right of center and have no light perception outside that area. But with glasses my vision in the area I can see is decent. I can read by using something to help me track the next line and use a cell phone. Both things I do quite often when on the bus. But I use a symbol cane when walking around. Every now and then I will have someone who has seen me reading intentionally get in my way or put something in my path to "prove" that I'm faking. Then when I run into them or trip they get pissed. Because there plan didnt work.

Dealing with paying at restaurants. I always ask a sighted dining partner to sign things, add the tip to the receipt, and so on. I don't carry cash, and if I do, it's a twenty or two, so tipping with cash won't happen unless I know I'm going out and remember to grab enough ones to cover the tip. I avoid going to restaurants by myself partly because of having to work out how to pay.

My other big one is the inability to deal with advanced computer tasks myself. I know what I'm doing in BIOS, RAID controller interfaces, and other pre-OS subsystems. But I can't access any of them without sighted help, which means a confused Aira agent if I happen to have paid for a month of the service (rare) or finding time for a confused sighted person to help me directly. I love to play with servers and the like, but I often can't.

As someone who's comfortably watched many a sports game (baseball and hockey are my deals) from both bed and couch, how is it not comfortable?

To answer your question, most of my annoyances are other people. Like right now I'm shopping around for a new job. You'd be surprised how many people need it explained to them that my eyes are broken, but the rest of me works perfectly fine aside from the fact I'm freaking lazy (I don't usually tell them that last part). Once they wrap their head around the concept it's not such a big thing, but nearly every single time. By now I think I've memorised about half a dozen different ways to say it so I don't get bored.

losing my phone constantly!

Not being able to do something simple that I know I could do if I could just see. Like set up settings on a non-talking tv, plugging in color coded speaker wires, the kind that a color reader can't help with because it is the kind that positive goes to positive etc.

Not being able to get a menu online for a place and needing someone to read it to me.

Not being able to just browse the grocery section for something new or dealing with someone who just can't find what you want but you know they have it.

Just a few that have really gotten to me.

Not legally blind yet, but getting there. I hate not being able to see the menus behind the registers at food places such as McDonald's. Even if I am at the front, some are just impossible to read.

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