I have the opposite issue. "We're out of X." "Did you look in the drawer?" "I assure you I was all over the drawer."

My partner and I are both totally blind. Her family are all sighted so when people come over, things get left out, moved around, put away in places we would not put them away etc. It's really annoying! They just don't think about it and it drives us nuts!

Goes both ways in our house. Despite being the sighted person I am actually better about putting things away in a consistent location but I am also lazy about not labeling the booze, cleaning supplies, spices, etc. I also just accept it that I am supposed to know, from memory, where basically every item in the house can be found. I do visually miss items that are "right there" all the time, last night it was the potato masher. I am also frequently summoned to locate items that turn out to be exactly where they are supposed to be, such as unsalted butter in the freezer which is on the rightmost side of the top shelf of the door.

Seems totally normal, but also one of those topics that dwelling on it too much would just cause needless strife.

My husband loves to answer me non-verbally. I am constantly telling him that I can’t hear the brains rattle in his head. I need a verbal answer.

Being visually impaired, I personally have excellent, yet sensitive hearing. However, compared to me, the rest of my family is deaf. They turn the TV up really loud, along with radios, and music, and it hurts my ears. But if it's at a comfortable level for me, they can't hear it. It's not relying too much on vision, but it is one thing I have noticed. Along with them sucking at blindfold games. They rely on sight of course, so during blindfold games like pin the tail, pinatas, Marco polo, and Deadman, they look like headless chickens , running around aimlessly. Lol. I love my family.

I say that all the time. It’s also why I’ve become the master of finding lost objects such as keys, wallets, remotes etc.

Sighted people usually do a quick visual scan and if they can’t find it, they give up and say the items lost. They may also move a single item and expect whatever they’re looking for to magically be directly under that object they moved. I usually just make some joke about who’s really the blind one around here or sarcastically say something like, “ugh living with blind people is so annoying because you folks can’t ever find anything” which usually gets a laugh from them. I’m also always the most organized one in the house too so that helps.

Okay but serious question, because honestly i still can't figure out out. I'm 'fully sighted' I mean my eyes suck but they work in comparison to my husband.

However my partially sighted husband is still effin amazing at finding things. Like unreal, I kid you not my mom lost her keys at the college campus at night (pitch black out) in 5 inches of snow and he still found them. HOW? I chalk it up to he's amazing and forever I will rely on him for that. I'll never leave because I need him to find me stuff.

I'm visually impaired and my partner has perfect eyesight. He can be really messy especially in the kitchen. 'You don't want to put things where they belong after using it?' Be prepared for a million questions about where those things are.

I didn't grow up blind, and I am completely unable to learn that if I don't put things in their allotted position, I will never find them again. My speciality is losing one of a pair of shoes.

I had to chuckle at this. My husband and sons have perfect vision, I have very limited vision. They will be hollering that they can’t find the camera battery/shampoo/tin foil/cat, and every single time, I can go right to what they’re looking for, or tell them within a few inches where they will find it.

They are always amazed and say “how do you do that? You know where everything is!” Well, darlings, I put things back where they belong, every time. As for the cat, he’s 19 and purrs like a dump truck going uphill, so he’s easy to find.

Yes sometimes but my family is very dilligent and organized so not a lot of problems like that. I do have better senses but that could be a sensory.thing. So yeah. I also have good spontaneous reaction and very spacial so that could be it.

I'm excellent at finding stuff in my friends' handbags. They spend ages looking through it to see their USB stick or keys or whatever, but doing it by feel is so much quicker.

Though for a while I had a lighter and a lipbalm that were exactly the same size, shape and feel, I constantly got them mixed up and would always have to check with someone sighted to make sure I didn't moisturiser my cigarette or set my lip on fire.