I've never been asked anything rude or insensitive.

The most unusual thing I hear comes from members of my own family. My son likes to give me a play-by-play description of what the dogs are doing whenever I'm in the room so I don't accidentally walk into them. It's odd because most of the time it's not helpful at all but he just won't shut up about it. "Blue's under the table. Now he's scratching his ear. Ellie's on the bed. Aww, she's so cute! She's looking at me. Blue's watching tv. Ellie's still on the bed. Blue likes this show. Ellie started wagging her tail when you walked by..." yada yada yada.

My wife acts as a sighted guide when we walk together. She holds my left hand and my cane is in my right. She tells me where the curb is, where the steps are, and where the sidewalk ends, but my cane already tells me that. She doesn't tell me where the low hanging tree branches are. That's the information I need from her. She's mesmerized by my cane and just doesn't look at anything else when I use it. My cane doesn't help at all with low hanging branches. But instead of looking out for my head she looks out for the tip of my cane. "We're at the curb!" Yeah, Hon, I realized that when my cane got there. Is my forehead bleeding?

Where do I start!?
1. “Can a blind person own a house?”
2. “Do you know sign language then?”
3. “How do blind people have sex?”
4. “How do blind people know when to stop wiping?”
5. “Can blind people cry?”

“How do blind people have sex?”
To which my response was, “you’ve never had sex in the dark?”

Also, the most googled question for “how does a blind person…” is apparently “how does a blind person wipe their butt?” Which is the weirdest question for so many people to be interested in. Why do they care about the details of ANYONE’S butt-wiping routine?

I was at CSUN and a girl came up to my friend and straight out asked her does she have magical powers with the cane. I shit you not without missing a beat my friend said yes and she snapped her cane open and closed so fast I even wondered after.

"Why don't you wear glasses?" and "Just be careful and watch out, and your vision will be better?"

Yeah cheers Karen fuck you too. Bloody hell.

When out and about with my cane and guide dog, I get asked the funniest questions.
*Can you drive a car?
*Have you thought about getting glasses?
*Don't you think it's embarrassing to be blind?
*Are your sunglasses opaque?
*Can the dog read?
*Is your dog sick? (because of the harness)

One question I’ve been asked is how do blind people dream?

"You say your right eye is completely blind. When you cry, do you cry with both eyes?" :D

ive been asked a whole hell of a lot of stupid things, but in the end it all ends up coming back to "how many fingers am i holding up? Oh, you got that? okay how many now?", or the "Oh can you see me now?" and gets right up into my face.

My absolute favorite was from when I was in highschool working at our library. I have some usable vision, for context.

I couldn't get this one kid's book to scan with the barcode reader, so I had to put the book really close to my face to read the numbers to enter it into our system manually. I got the usual "Uh.. why are you smelling my book?"

I explained that I couldn't see very well and I had to get the book that close to see the numbers and the kids goes "Why?", So I explain that I was born with a condition that affects my vision and means I can't see as well as others, to which he replies "Why?"

I got a real good laugh out of that one. Other than that, just the common ones like "What can you actually see?"

I just get the usual “But you can see?” FollowEd closely thereafter by “So what can you see?” and then “Can you see this?” Around sighted people.

Around other people with BVI I get “I thought you said you were blind?”

If you’re blind, how are you able to hear? Or just the normal, why do your eyes move like that? Have you ever thought of getting glasses?

Can I drive?

Me, the guy born blind

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I did a few presentations about my blindness to younger classes. A question I got asked was "How do you go to the bathroom?" "The same as everybody else."

It's not a question but my left eye is clearly smaller and blind but in school people would try to perform a vision test on me? They'd lift up their fingers and ask me how many are they holding like....this is a waste of my time. Lol

I have a strange question! Do people born blind ever experience body or gender dysmorphia? Or is that something only plagued by sighted people?

How do blind people whipe their arses.