I use visually impaired. I’m blind in my left eye and I only have central vision in my right eye. What caused my impairment? A premature birth! I was born at 25 weeks weighing in at 14 ounces and 10.5/8 inches on 12/25/93 because my mothers kidneys were failing. I had to stay in the hospital for nearly five months. I came home on my mothers birthday on 4/19/94 weighing in at 3 pounds. She’s still alive to this very day! Praise God!

I’m legally blind, an autoimmune condition destroyed my optic nerves leaving me with 20% vision in my left eye and nothing in my right.

I’m legally blind due to oculocutanious albinism. The OCA causes things like nystagmus and astigmatism and also some areas of my eye aren’t fully formed. I also have a lazy eye and of course the main part of albinism is the light sensitivity.

I describe my sight as seeing a lot of things but not totally seeing those things. Things are blurry but in most cases my brain just registers it as not seeing it and tries to fill in the blanks of what it might be. Some people get confused when I see something but I explain that I’m not seeing it like they are and I just made a best guess. When I explain to people how I can’t see, I describe to them that I’m not able to see people’s faces and in most cases can’t discern if they have hands of feet even. I have better up close than distance but I still require large print and I like to read via audio. It frustrates me that reddit isn’t large font compatible on the iPhone.

I am legally blind. The only way I tend to be able to explain it to people is that I just see much much blurrier than the average person. Then I show them things that they can see that I cannot. For example, I am unable to see my feet clearly while standing (I am 6'6") or this subreddit if my phone isn't lees than an inch from my face.

I have displaced lenses, ocular albinism, rod cone dystrophy, astigmatism, nystagmus, and glaucoma.

Legally blind because of multiple conditions

Visually impared, if the surgery I am about to get does not go as planned I will be registering as legally blind.

I'm fully blind in my left eye, but over perfect vision in my right.

Visually impaired. A tumor in the pituitary gland crushed my optic nerves.

Legally blind from optic neuritis diagnosed at 3 yo

I am legally blind. Born with cancer in both eyes. Right eye was removed and left was treated with radiation. The radiation caused a cataract and my lens was removed when i was 3. The radiation also caused chronic dry eye from lack of tears so my cornea is scarred. It varies day by day. Some days I get to work and am surprised by how close I had pulled the monitor the day before. Other days I'm wondering if the cleaning ladies pushed it back overnight. I'm very light sensitive without a lens and can only focus on the exact right spot of my glasses. Can't read street signs to save my life. But otherwise doing well and supporting myself and my crew of pets.

I’m visually impaired. I have all but the amblyopia symptoms you have and reduced peripheral vision. I have retinitis pigmentosa.

Legally blind due to ROP - born at 28wks. I've never had vision in my left eye. I have very central vision in my right and low visual acuity in that eye, as well. I also have pretty severe nystagmus. I'm pretty much night blind and don't handle glare/lights at night well at all. In general, though, I need a lot of ambient light to see to do things. I've also had 3 glaucoma surgeries, cataract surgery, and a couple other laser procedures here and there.

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Depending on who I'm talking to, I'll say blind, visually impaired, or a low partial. I have just above light sensitivity, and the vast majority of what I see is just static with my brain vomitting out what it thinks things look like, which is fun when combined with Charles Bonnet syndrome. My hallucinations are people, especially demonic or scary looking people.

As my flair implies, my brain had a fit and caused my blindness. I have a condition called Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and it basically means that you have too much brain goo, and it can wreck your shit. My first symptoms were rapid onset vision loss, and my optic nerves are now severely atrophied.

I hope you will find a diagnosis soon! Not knowing has got to be difficult.

I have Choroideremia and legally blind. I've been slowly going blind since birth. I've got about 9% (mainly central) left in each eye, with night blindness. Genetic surgery is on the horizon but the late '30s is when it starts to hit hard. Here's to hoping and praying science prevails for all of us!

I am legally blind. My BCVA exceeds 20/200. Basically, I can see the E at the top of the eye chart, but not much else.

My condition is a combination of acute myopia and cone dystrophy leading to Achromatopsia.

In layman’s terms, I am extremely near-sighted, partially color blind and my eyes don’t react well to light. So, yes, I wear my sunglasses at night. Especially when entering a grocery or convenience store with bright fluorescent lighting and all-white floors.

My eyes have always been bad. I’ve been in glasses since I was three years old.

I was diagnosed with cone dystrophy at age 12

I was diagnosed as legally blind at age 27

I am 44 now and my eyes are getting worse! Not that they were all that great to begin with, but I used to be able to read fine print at a 20/40 level without my glasses as long as I could pull the page right up to my face.

Now I find I am struggling to read small print and it is terrifying me!

I'm visually impaired ´, but only enough to be considered visually impaired and I can't move my eyes at all which actually impairs me.

however I've never felt like I belong in either the visually impaired world nor the "normal" sighted one.

I am fully blind, I have light perception but I cannot even distinguish colours. I claim I have no useful vision.

I always say "legally blind." I have severely high myopia, astigmatism, and nystagmus. Due to the nystagmus, my best corrected vision is about 20/80. I tell people I'm "legally blind" bc I thought most people understood that "legally blind" means that even with correction, your best corrected vision is still not great. (I think technically legally blind means that best corrected is 20/200, but I know the general population doesn't know that.) But an annoying number of people still ask me, "Why don't you just wear glasses?" when I say "legally blind." In an ideal world, strangers would just mind their own business and not ask me why I'm looking so closely at my phone, but people suck.

Fully blind. Had a detached retina due to hemorrhage and from alergic reaction to penicillin then sympathetic opthalmia set in... The right eye was removed when I was 8, was fully blind at 18.

I guess everyone's experiences are different, different support groups, out looks on life, but for any who are losing sight, it sucks hard, but you can get through it. It took me a long while to adjust to 0 sight and the ways I could lead a full and rich life. My interests changed, my appreciation for what I do have rather than what I lack became important. I understand that anyone can feel low, defeated, that tomorrow is going to be as shit as today, but, for those who considering ending it all, it might not be, it might be better, it might be fucking wonderful. Hold on to that feeling of wanting to turn the next page, watch the next episode. I let my curiosity drive me from day to day and am grateful for my unique perspective on life because that's what makes me me.
Stay cool, stay brave, stay beautiful. ,

I’m fully blind but can seee lights and reflections.

I was born this way.

Totally blind due to glaucoma since 2014.

Visually impaired in my good eye with a pinhole visual field but visual acuity isn’t terrible (20/30).

In my bad eye, I’m legally blind. Because I can’t see contrast very well, my visual field is considered nonexistent and I don’t use the eye.

Blind as hell. Hit by a car in May 1998, detached retinas. I can maybe see a little glow of purple light sometimes, it's so little I'm not even sure.

Legally Blind. I have optic nerve hypoplasia. I'm pretty independent. I do not drive. Peripheral in my left eye is pretty bad. My glasses are almost pretty useless. I have nystagmus in both eyes. I think my right ("good eye") is 20/200 and my left eye is 20/400.

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The Veteran's Affairs declared me legally blind as of May 2017, I believe it's cone-rod dystrophy. It is mildly impacted by my diabetes, even though my sugars are under control. ( Since it could be relevent. I am turning 35 in April )

Center of my vision is missing, but my brain being a derp tries to fill in that void and I could have easily gone for years not realizing the case prior to my diagnosis in 2017.

Believed to inherit it genetically from my father's side of family, he has crap vision ( that he is just now managing to get corrected mostly. He's 62, been wearing glasses since birth. ) and light sensitivity.

My sister and I both share the ailment, with her vision a lot more advanced in its loss given her 4 year age seniority on me. I use her often as a guage of what my vision will do.

Aside from light sensitivity and vision at center of my eyes gone, I have 20/225 in left eye and 20/360 in right. I often just close my right eye for being a bother and will likely get an eye patch.

I CANNOT see at all during the day outside without my amber colored sunglasses. I can function rather well when not facing the sun, while wearing my glasses. Not quite normal, but enough that a lot of people question how blind I really am. ( Until they watch my dumbass long enough. )

My sight is only just bad enough to be considered visually impaired and I am incapable of moving my eyes around which actually impairs me yet I have never felt like I belong in either the visually impaired world or the normal sighted one

Visually impaired. I was born with cataracts and the surgery to remove them when I was a baby left me almost completely blind in my left eye. As an adult, I developed Intracranial Hypertension (too much fluid in my skull, it puts pressure on the back of the eyes) which has caused damage to the optic nerve in my right eye.

Who even knows? Lol... I’m completely blind in my left eye and have sight in my right eye. Currently can see hardly anything due to surgery, which is a slow healing process (thanks, retina). I don’t know if I’m considered legally blind or vision impaired though.

Numbers-wise I’ve jumped from 6/36 (my vision for most of my life. What you can see at 36 metres away, I could see at 6 metres away) and at its worst (a few months ago when my retina was detaching) 6/90 (that was a pain). I have retinopathy of prematurity which has also brought along glaucoma. Right now it’s awful. I’ve had to delay uni since I can hardly see, and I have to use a screen reader (VoiceOver).

I am Visually Impaired. I usually say that I'm half-blind because my right eye actually works better than most normal eyes, to make up for my left eye with nerve damage. I have nerve damage all along my left side so I am also half-deaf plus some other stuff. My left eye is lazy, especially in the mornings. I can see out of my left eye, but only about 25% or something. When I close my right eye, my left eye can see, very poorly, but when I open my right eye, I can't see out of my left eye. When I close my right eye, my brain tries to combine what I'm seeing through both eyes, so it's the world, but with the black of my eyelid coming through it as well. It's hard to explain, it's like both of what my eyes are seeing are competing for what I see, so I see both switching, or at the same time.