"You're not blind, why do you have a cane?" When low vision blind users doing their best on their own are called out for not really being blind and think we are trying to get away with something. I wish.

Vision impairment is a spectrum, it's not an all or nothing ailment.

That we're going to be very happy or not absolutely fuming when you decide to give up your time, unprompted, to unhelpfully help us.

'Yes I did know where I was going, as I told you.' 'Yes I am now lost, because you grabbed hold of my arm and decided to disorientate me.'

‘How are you typing this if you’re blind?’ - that one is so infuriating people honestly need to educate themselves. Not every blind/visually impaired person can only see black.
Or they just stare blankly at you and refuse to believe you’re blind cause apparently I don’t ‘look’ blind.

I wish people wouldn't assume I can sing or play a musical instrament because I am blind. I like listening to music, but I don't have any skill playing it.

The other thing is, I wish people would stop asaing me if I know the blind person that lives in their town or street. I don't know every blind person in a 50 mile radius.

Please don’t speak louder to us. We can hear you just fine.

And if you offer us a seat on the bus and we decline please don’t insist. I stand on one bus route because I can tell by the bumps where I am.

Most everything. Lots of stuff I could mention here. Mainly, I wish people didn't automatically assume we have to be spoken to like five year olds. Being blind doesn't make a person stupid, and even people with mental disabilities deserve more respect than that.

I was at a music festival and had my ID cane. I also had my sunglasses on (I have retina issues and the lights were super bright).
I was standing there enjoying the concert and a girl to me left asked me “do you know where you are right now?”
I was like “...yeah....”

I guess she thought I was totally blind?...
regardless, it was a MUSIC festival.

I’ll give you an example… I was waiting to be picked up when a guy thought I was waiting to cross the parking lot. He walked up towards me and asked if I need help crossing the road. I told him no thank you I’m good.
My problem is that he thinks I am a small child or an elderly woman that I need help crossing the street; even if I wanted to cross the parking lot, I can do it in my own.

Oh you’re blind you must be an auditory learner. Sorry nope. Oh blind people can’t be visual or spacial learners and what if I am?

Hey. Because of the fact that our visual impairments or blindness is seen as a disability, we are usually overlooked, or thought of as inferior.

This might be a Hot Take but I feel like the assumption is that if you're blind, the government takes care of you and you don't work or have a good education. I profoundly hate that and wish that it weren't the prevailing view, especially amongst some "blindness professionals".

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When people try to baby me or think I can’t do things for myself. Once I was going to the massage place with my friend you know, to get a massage. And this woman is asking questions like do you need a robe and stuff like that which is normal. Except, she keeps turning to my friend and asking her the questions like does she need a robe? I kept on replaying yes I do and stuff like that and she just kept asking her the questions. Finally, I just said “lady, I am right here, I have a functioning brain, if you want to ask me a question, ask it to my face don’t ask it to my friend. “And then this lady proceeds to act all offended and says “well, I didn’t know. “And a bunch of other stuff. I’m not going back to that place.

For me it’s always when I tell people that I can’t drive because I’m legally blind and they respond with,” Honestly you’re kinda lucky I hate driving sometimes.” Like did you even for a second stop to think how much you rely on driving (especially living in a small town) just for your basic survival while trying to live alone?

Just because I where an eye patch doesn’t mean it’s ok to call me patchy and it doesn’t mean that all I am is that one partially blind guy. I’m much more than that as a person. Don’t introduce me as being partially blind I can do that myself.

Just started to use my cane publicly and the security at our kids school referred to me as the guy going blind to my wife when we met there recently for a parent teacher meeting. She was embarrassed and felt bad. Im not fazed by those comments. Sad commentary on society is that now with a cane i get more good mornings than ever in my life!!

Some idiot once asked me if blind people can be racist and then compared me to daredevil.