How about you admit that you are nervous and you're afraid of putting your foot in your mouth? I'd much rather someone tell me they were unsure rather than trying to act like they weren't. "Hey, I want to spend some time with you, but I'm nervous I'll do something dumb and offend you. Will you help me figure it out?' Good luck! You sound like you do like him and want to be sensitive to him.

Just act like he's a typical guy. Some tips for stuff that may not be obvious:

- blind people love movies and TV, even though they can't see much of them. Don't be afraid to want to watch a movie together!
- if yall do go out, you can offer assistance like guiding him as you walk and then let him tell you what he needs/is comfortable with
- definitely tell him he's handsome! Anyone would love to hear that and most people, blind or not, don't believe it themselves

I wish you luck and I hope you get the courage to talk to him and ask him out!

A great place to start is $1. Trust me. u/marconius explains it far better than I ever could. It's a fun and heartwarming primer on blind dating.

Essentially, treat him as a person. You absolutely can complement him on his looks. It's the "you don't know it" part that may offend. I only date sighted girls myself, and that's not because I *wouldn't* date a Blind/VI woman, it has just worked out that way. The most important thing is to be a good communicator. Ask him how he wants to be interacted with, and don't assume he is incapable of things. Luck

This question makes me smile and cringe all at once :) Like others have said, please try to let go of the fear of offending this person and just reach out. One of two things will happen:

\- he's appreciative you treat him like a normal person.

\- He's a dick about it, which essentially means he wasn't worth it to begin with.

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Either way you win.

I've been totally blind since I was a teen. Over the years I dated both blind and sighted girls. Just talk to him! Be honest and odds are you'll be fine. Remember... He may be nervous too and may be worrying about saying the wrong sort of things to you as well. Don't make a huge deal out of it.

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Whether this goes for a romantic relationship, friends, co-workers, whatever, the thing that does get on my nerves is when people aren't open and honest about things they are curious about, things they want, something they'd like to learn about etc because they don't want to risk offending me. I am only speaking for myself here, but, I don't get offended easily! It seems that sighted people get offended on my behalf when I really don't care much either way.

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What offends me is ignorance and stereotypes. There would be a lot less of those about if people just started an actual conversation with a blind person.

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Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

I have very low vision and have always liked other people better when they do their best to treat me as a normal person. I've taken this in and use it whenever I'm talking to anyone else with a disability and it has worked to the point where those people have explicitly thanked me for not highlighting their disability in our friendship/relationship. Obviously I'm being a bit general here but I hope this helps

Just follow your instincts, most people would like to hear that compliment and laugh along with it. Just treat him the way you treat all your other friends.

I was born blind and use "see" "watch" and "look" in my vocabulary although I don't literally do any of that.

Sweet heart just go for it
As a legally blind New Yorker I’d love to receive that compliment
I myself I’m too scared to approach a female in public so to have the tables turned and feel like desired is great
So be like Nike and just do it

I think it’s easy, coming from someone who is blind, just be basic, like, hi, how are you doing, my name is, and take it from there, and just to be open with him and let him know that, I don’t want to offend you by the things I say so correct me please if I happen to do so, it’s easy.

Focusing on my blindness/how I’m different would be offensive. I know it’s a bigger influence in a life than being super tall, but consider it that way. If he were super tall, would that be your focus when trying to figure out how to approach him/ask him out? “Super tall” is a piece of the person, just as “blind” is a piece of him. Interact with him as a person first, and see if he leads you in interactions on how to deal with the affects of his blindness.

I met a guy at a vision conference. He was visually impaired, and I am completely blind. We hit it off and he asked me to hang out/go on a date. Years later (we dated a while), he told me he was so nervous about trying to come up with an activity to do for our first hang out because he couldn’t think of what to do with a blind person that he almost cancelled. I told him, “ummm, you just ask me what I want to do when we hang out!” It seemed like complete common sense. (I don’t remember how we had exactly come to the plan, but you wanna know what we did on that first hang out? We watched a movie, Full Metal Jacket.)

Oh for fuck sakes, he's only blind. I promise, his DNA isn't different than yours.If you think he's cute, than that's awesome. Just go up to him one day and tell him, "you're really cute, can I buy you coffeee sometime?". That's really all that's needed.

Do you already know him?  I don’t know if you’re a woman or a man but you don’t justask someone out when you don’t know them. First you have to friend them and goon from there.Although it would be a hell of a confidence booster if arandom person were to come up to me and ask me out when I don’t even know them.That’s how attractive I am. LOL

If you already know him then just ask him out like you would anyone else.