Honestly as my RP has gotten worse I feel I avoid social things such as what yo usaid less and less. I just wing it and if theres a akward silence or I dont hear/see a response I just bluntly say something like "Sorry bro I cant tell if your smiling or flipping me off right now...im blind" which in my circles normally gets a laugh and everyone is cool about it.

If people are wondering, d, a, e, stands for does anyone else.

I’m completely blind so can’t answer your question but thought I’d let people know what it means.

I had similar anxieties and just gave up by wearing dark glasses, ha ha. The loner I’ve been wearing them in public, the less I seem to care how people think of my eyes when I’m not wearing them. It helps that I’ve become very light sensitive. If you can’t do dark glasses, look for big mirrored shades that people can’t or at least can’t easily see through.

I'm either total or very nearly total, and honestly, if I can get away with it, I'll wear shades to a bar or something just so people don't treat me like a freak. I admit that I am being paranoid about this, though, as I have sat down and had ten minute conversations with people who haven't realised. Probably they just thought I was really reflective or something because I probably looked like I was staring past them.

Am I unusual, though? I'm told I don't "look blind" which I guess means I have pretty normal body language.

same. people think im a super serious person at first, but its just me being super tense because of the anxiety eye contact makes me have

I stare down at the ground when our and about. Helps put what little vision I have to use on watching for obstacles, and I can’t recognize people even when they are feet away.

In conversations, I will often look near them but not at them to spare complications with “dead stare “ issues.

Came back to add that, for us who are visually impaired, who have some sight, using a white cane is a huge help to let other idiots know you are visually challenged, and that is why you may or may not look directly at them.

I didn't use a white cane until I was in my late 30's, and the first part of my life was spent confusing people. They couldn't understand that I 'could' see things, but I couldn't see things 'they' could see. People who didn't know me personally were confused as f\*ck. But after I started using a white cane, it was like I was holding a huge neon sign they said, "Hey! Idiot! I can't see as well as you, I'm legally blind! So give me a break and help me out!!" and it helped a lot. And if the idiot was being an ass, all I had to do was whack 'em in the ankle with the metal tip of my cane and say, "Oops, my bad, I DIDN'T SEE YOU!" Trust me, that metal tip HURTS!!

"But you're sooooo brave and inspiring!"

LOL piss off. I'm brave and inspiring for literally doing the same shit you do? ....Alrighty then.

Yes! I had a girl at a mall kiosk get yourself with me "You don't have to avoid looking at me."

My eyes shake and I tilt my head for to my vision so I am definitely self conscious about eye contact :/

Hi. I'm Molly. I'm 51, and I've been legally blind since birth. My acuity is 20/200 and 20/400 at its best. I really don't ever look people in the eye, because I have a strange combination of exotropia. My left eye looks to the left. My right eye is in a normal position. But if I close my right eye and look at an object only with my left eye, it shifts into the correct position. Can't explain it well, but my eye doctors have said my eyes are unique, eccentric, nowhere near normal, and complicated.... LOL I should get that tattooed on my body!

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So nope, I don't look at people, really. And most of the times in life when I have, like if I'm looking at a cashier, for instance, they bob their head and look behind them, as if to look and see what I'M looking at, and it is SO embarrassing!!! I can't tell you how terrible it makes me feel. But as I've gotten older, I've learned NTGAF.

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And also, what I've learned as I've gotten older, because wisdom really does come with age, older adults UNDERSTAND and not make a big deal out of a disability. With age comes respect and understanding. It's the young ones, the teenagers, and young adults who don't know any better yet, that will still snicker and laugh behind your back, or right in front of you. You have to learn to let it roll off of your back, or get a backbone and tell them to quit acting like a 5 year old, to GROW TF up!

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People that know me know my eyes are strange. No one seems to care if I look at them or not. My husband, he is used to it, like my mom, and tells me over and over again that they don't notice anything wrong with my eyes. Maybe they really don't see it.... I don't know. But hey, it's ok. Don't worry so much about this situation-- Just be you. And BE HAPPY. That's all you can really want in life--to be happy, because there really is no point to it. Just life. Make it yours, grab it by the horns, and do whatever it takes to make YOU happy.


Your eyes are just a small part of you. What people REALLY SEE, and remember, and respect, is what comes from inside of you, from your heart and soul.