I became legally blind after a cerebral aneurysm caused me to fall and sustain a tbi. It is tough to cope with vision loss. It has taken me 10 months to start using my white cane wherever I go. That said, I've decided that since I can't fight it I need to accept it and learn all the necessary tools to be safe. So I'm now coping by owning my blindness and doing everything necessary in order to live with this disability and not be held back.

All the best, friend - not an easy journey but you are not alone.

I just code to pass the time, as I happen to be a process-oriented person who loves coding for the sake of it even if I'm not doing anything useful. It wasn't always like that though, I've been blind for 6 years and only returned to coding last year, before then I was so bored that I could only think about ways to end my life. My return was triggered by my attempt to teach my niece how to code, but since she lost interest very quickly I decided to finish the video-game that I was going to develop with her by myself just to prove that I could do it alone and actually succeeded.

The best advice that I can give, considering my own experience, is to find out if what you loved doing with sight is possible to accomplish with adaptations, and whether the experience of doing it is still enjoyable without vision. By finding out I really mean trying hard to push the limits, because I never thought that I could make a video-game without any vision at all, as despite having heard of completely blind programmers I had never heard of anyone doing anything similar. My game is nothing more than a proof of concept, but it was enough for me to learn that I'm far less limited than I thought.

In my case, due to having worked before, my disability benefits are equivalent to the average retirement benefits where I live, so I'm financially more stable than many people, especially now with the corona crisis since I also have a moderate amount of savings in the bank which would allow me to live for two years without any income. This means that at 37 I can afford to not work anymore and spend all my time doing what I truly enjoy, so in a sense blindness has actually improved my life, and if someone offered my former life and vision back I'm not sure I'd take it.

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