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How to interact with seeing kids as legally blind? (self.Blind)
submitted by macadamia_owl
I have problem with interacting with 4 yo niece, she's visiting us almost daily since birth. She doesn't understand that I can't see many things and do many things even with lot's of explaination, educational games, showing her how i see trough fun experience (using old glasses making them foggy and doing common stuff like this for a while, playing blindfolded or in the dark), reading educational books and stories for kids for her age explaining disabilities.
Yet she almost always is mad at me when I can't do things as other adults are doing, when i won't wave back to her, when i won't avoid her running/walking/bumping at me on purpose/fun/or she being absorbed by something. She then gets "aggressive" at me by hitting, biting to the blood, kicking and screaming at me. She blames me for inflicting her "pain" yet i never even raised voice at her, accidentally i bumped lightly at her when she was little 2yo but she had no scratch or when we have to go near each other she sometimes run into my white cane although all of us payed attention and warned her not to do it and pulled her out of the way. She knows I'm having "sick eyes" and need "white stick" to walk on street but how she's understands it?
How to make all of this more bearable? I'm starting don't liking her visits because it's very stressful. Any experiences, tips how to get trough it?
I have 200/1000 15 degree tunnel vision in right eye, left eye fully blind.
Yet she almost always is mad at me when I can't do things as other adults are doing, when i won't wave back to her, when i won't avoid her running/walking/bumping at me on purpose/fun/or she being absorbed by something. She then gets "aggressive" at me by hitting, biting to the blood, kicking and screaming at me. She blames me for inflicting her "pain" yet i never even raised voice at her, accidentally i bumped lightly at her when she was little 2yo but she had no scratch or when we have to go near each other she sometimes run into my white cane although all of us payed attention and warned her not to do it and pulled her out of the way. She knows I'm having "sick eyes" and need "white stick" to walk on street but how she's understands it?
How to make all of this more bearable? I'm starting don't liking her visits because it's very stressful. Any experiences, tips how to get trough it?
I have 200/1000 15 degree tunnel vision in right eye, left eye fully blind.
Tarnagona 11 points 2y ago
I agree, you should talk to your sibling about your niece’s behaviour. Even if she doesn’t entirely understand your vision, she shouldn’t be lashing out and hitting or biting! you.
By four years old, my niblings had started to understand that I couldn’t see as well, even though they didn’t fully grasp it, and often forgot. My nephew, at six years old, still doesn’t entirely understand how my vision is different (you should get better glasses, Auntie Kate!), but he’s starting to. I just have to remind him sometimes: I can’t see that; can you bring it closer. You need to watch where you’re going; Auntie Kate can’t see you well. That sort of thing.
It sounds like you’ve explained the best you can, and I think it’ll take a while yet before your niece really grasps how you are different. But it also sounds like she needs to work with her parents on not acting out in inappropriate ways, like she has been.
By four years old, my niblings had started to understand that I couldn’t see as well, even though they didn’t fully grasp it, and often forgot. My nephew, at six years old, still doesn’t entirely understand how my vision is different (you should get better glasses, Auntie Kate!), but he’s starting to. I just have to remind him sometimes: I can’t see that; can you bring it closer. You need to watch where you’re going; Auntie Kate can’t see you well. That sort of thing.
It sounds like you’ve explained the best you can, and I think it’ll take a while yet before your niece really grasps how you are different. But it also sounds like she needs to work with her parents on not acting out in inappropriate ways, like she has been.
MostlyBlindGamer 11 points 2y ago
Show your sibling this post. They need to work with their kid. If not for your benefit, then for that of their kid, because one day she'll run into somebody who's not putting up with that.
munchhie 2 points 2y ago
This sounds like a behavioral issue. I've had children get frustrated with me, but never to this extent. I think this kid needs therapy.
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