I was 100% satisfied with my life as a blind person and would have even gone so far as to donate the healthy parts of my eyes to people if it had been needful and medically viable. Then I had a child. Now, I'd try anything to gain some vision: not, as sighted people seem to think, to see my child's face - what good would that do me? I've never seen any faces - but the Spontaneity of her life is quite curtailed by my disability.

I don’t regret having a child in the least. We have a fantastic relationship, I believe myself to be a reasonably good parent, and know with certitude that I am doing a better job than my own family did raising me. Nonetheless, the restrictions imposed upon me by total blindness living where I do and with the life skills that I have learned do mean that adjustments are needed to the way I would like to live my life as a father, and it is for that reason that I would, if I could, undergo any procedure to fix my broken eyes.

Obviously having never seen, the adjustment would be as much psychological as physical. There are so many concepts of sight that fail to penetrate. I can’t deny the prpospect intrigues me from an intellectual level as well. But my main impetus would be parental.

Interestingly I never felt this way about myself, nor about my partner, who went into the relationship aware of the limitations life had placed upon me. I am almost certain that, if life does go on as it inevitably will and my child grows up, leaves home and finds a life away from me, I will once again be content to life without any vision.

I've been blind for 5 years and I'm 26. It changed my life, but for better and I'm a happy man and I don't really think much about regaining my sight. Life is too short for that. I'd rather progress with my life and focus on now and the future, not the past.

To an extent, I don’t want my sight back, but I’d argue it’s different than it is in Ddeaf communities. Blind people aren’t a coherent cultural group the way Deaf people are — we don’t have a common Blind specific language, and we don’t usually have the same types of community gatherings. There are definite differences from sighted folks, but not in any coherent fashion.

I lost my sight at 19 very suddenly, I'm now more than twice that age so I'm very much used to it and while it doesn't ruin my life, I would absolutely take a cure any time one came along.

It's not really about seeing sunsets and rembrandts, it's about the amount of work it creates dealing with it. I work as a session musician and that means traveling around to different places to work on things often several times a week. I may have picked out an incredibly unfriendly career, I guess, but that's where I am

I've said a lot that it's like having a whole extra job just dealing with it, a job you would never choose, can never quit, have to do 24 7 and don't get paid for. Then I have an actual job on top of that. This will be unpopular but I sometimes think that people who don't care about being blind haven't really thought very hard about this stuff and maybe don't have very demanding jobs. I fall into bed every night just absolutely wrecked and it took a while to figure out why that was, because I'm basically doing two jobs the whole time.

So yeah I'd take the cure just because of the ridiculous amount of extra work it is, but I'm never going to stop doing it because frankly I like having a life.

Speaking second hand, but for my wife I think it’s more that she knows it’s something she can’t have, so it’s depressing to be reminded in conversations about it. It’s like asking a short person over and over if they wish they were tall.

Typically people born with visual impairment show this type of thinking.

I'm totally blind. I don't really want to be able to see, as I've never seen things before anyway. That being said, I wouldn't mind if I could try it out first, like an experiment. I also have Asperger's Syndrome, and I have no idea what throwing sight into the mix would do where that is concerned. If I could try it, and then decide I don't like it and would rather stay totally blind, that would be cool. Then I could say I've had the experience, and would know what people are talking about when they mention this or that thing and/or color.

Totally blind since 8 couldn’t see much before. I do fine, I think I would have to adjust and adapt all over again sight is a muscle you have to use it.or lose it and get overstimulated and confused. I am fine, don’t have a strong desire to see again, and there’s almost if not truly impossible for me to see again. If it’s possible it will have to be a God thing. And if so maybe it would be sensorially interesting. But that’s about it. I live a pretty full life do everything and pretty capable. So not really don’t want it. I understand the other side but not a huge fan of it.

I remember I did like colors and seeing things so I may like it but don’t miss it too much. I did like sunrises and sunsets but I am that type very immediate perception type of deal. I can still be very sensory. For me at least everything I do in self development puts me at very kinesthetic or sensory so yeah. I won’t bring other stuff in here that is not related I am in to other stuff that isn’t related to blind stuff but yeah. I’d probably like more adventurous stuff maybe more sporty or go surfing or something like that. Or like sight seeing and like seeing sunsets in different places or wonders of the world. Not tourist traps. I greatly enjoyed kaleidoscopes and prisms.

I don’t let blindness stop me at all though very capable blind person here. As if I do almost everything and integrate in to the sighted community well. Very strong willed adventurous person here. Many stories to tell..

I’ve done a bunch of rep and community work. A bunch of advocacy.

Went surfing once and absolutely loved it..was an instant hero when I kept going after a two foot wave covered me for a minute or 2 and then came up and kept going.

Went to the eastern seaboard here in the us by myself for 2 weeks and had a very pact schedule from historical to political site visited 5 states and a property if you count the property as a state then 6. The sights were not close but I was able to get on transport and do it. I did at least 2 or 3 average a day. Never been to these cities but picked up the transport systems really quickly and got a hang on how it works. Etc....

I live a full and active life pre-pandemic I was out everywhere very difficult to find me online. And I had no time for the online world.

I'm blind from birth and I wish I could see. That is, 80% of the information is visual. This says it all. I could play video games and generally make my life a lot easier, plus some things I can’t do blindly at all, like cycling or figuring out what my face looks like.

If my retinopathy of prematurity could be treated and the operation would cost up to 75,000 euros for each eye, I will raise money from the pension and I will definitely try this.

Oh, I was going to forget: watching movies and documentaries about space is still an interesting activity that I could do. I know there is audio descriptions, but I don't know English at all.

I was born completely blind but I can see light and outlines

I’d not mind seeing to play videogames and to make my life quite a bit easier but I doubt something will come out for people like me cause of our type of blindness.

I was born legally blind and it's been stable my whole life. But I would 100% want to see normally if I could. Being blind has cost opportunities and made sighted people automatically dismiss me/my abilities for jobs and connections.

As someone who does not know what good vision is like, I have never once TRULY wished to be “cured.” Of course, everyone thinks about it just like everyone thinks about what it would be like to be the opposite sex, but I’ve never really wanted it. I am content with my life as it is, and yes, I would say it is part of my identity and what I want to do with my life. I don’t need perfect vision to be happy, and therefore I am content to stay as I am. But is it offensive to think I want a cure? Yes, if people keep pushing it even after I explain this to them. I don’t have a problem exp,inning this once or twice, but I will get angry if someone refuses to listen or doesn’t try to understand.

I became blind shortly after I was born, so I lived my whole life being blind. If I had the opportunity to recover my sight I would take it immediately. I suppose it would require extensive therapy or who knows what, but the benefits that sight would bring me in my day to day, economically and so on would be enormous.

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Hi there, so I was born blind and only have light perception. I figure if I could gain my sight back through gene therapy or some other means that I would have to re-learn a lot of things, anything from my basic knowledge of what things "look like" to what colours are, to my letters and numbers (used to have toys that had letters and numbers as plastic figures but I probably would struggle for a good few months with that) and from what I heard the therapy would only be 60% effective short term and they did not have enough data to know for long term. So because of the re-learning aspect I feel that I am just too inherently lazy to want to be "normal"

No. A disability is a disability and a disadvantage and it would be great if it was gone.

I can’t speak for others, but I don’t care much about regaining my sight back. For context, I do have a bit of sight but it’s very little (I can see, say, my hand close up, contrast between white and dark colours). My cornea is scarred and I don’t have a lens in my right eye and I’m completely blind in my left eye. For my right eye, I’m sick of having my vision change every couple of years and I don’t want a cornea transplant or sclera lens. Both seem too painful. I’ve been completely blind in my left eye since birth. Although it’s frustrating at times, I like me blind and I like my life.

As someone whose vision has deteriorated over my life I can say I wish I could see as good as I used to which was still white bad, but I don't know what vision any better than that would be like so I can't really imagine it. I look at books I used to be able to read but now cannot even with certain tools and it saddens me knowing that I used to be capable of something and how I could perform certain tasks now if my vision was at that level even though it's still a relatively bad level of vision I long for.

Being able to see would suck. I'd have to learn how to read and write and what things look like, plus how to drive. No thanks.