I kinda started to figure out that people saw things way different when I was 12. I don't remember why, it was kinda just a shift in perspective. Even decades later I don't fully get what it means to be sighted and I have some useable vision. I guess it's little things, like people talking about something they can see and you just have to take their word for it. Like, a friend was trying to explain football to me and so much of it didn't make any sense and then I realised about halfway through the game that it's a lot easier to follow when you can see the ball, which I couldn't and had completely forgotten that it's part of the game. But I dunno man. What's it like to have fully working sight? When did you realise it was so significant to your existence?

I guess I never thought I was "different." I mean my parents would always say we can see and you can't, and unfortunately they would tell me all the things I could never do. When I went and did half the things they told me I'd never do, they were like huh?
My dad told me I'd never take ballet lessons, then when I had my first Christmas recital, I asked him if I could take ballet lessons now? My parents and even my vision teacher said I'd never move out on my own. Here I am right now, living by myself, completely away from my parents, well they live about 10 minutes away.

I studied in (kind of) elementary school with other blind or poor-visioned kids, so I didn't felt really different. But when I was 8 my parents moved to another parts of the city, so I switched schools too. And I was beaten by new "classmates"; just because I didn't saw them in classroom.

I know I "clued in" very early probably before I could talk. I know some about light and dark and colours because I used to notice them much more, but currently what I say about my vision is that I have "no useful vision"