After my left eyes sight was taken as a child, I found myself in the half-world of the half-blind, and as an orphaned child, was forced by the system to be pulled into and treated as fully blind person despite having partial sight due to my other eye because it was easier for the system to take me in that way as a blind kid, because foster parents made more money every month that way. Effectively the state forced me to be considered more disabled than I thought I was.

Then after I was emancipated at 17, I was allowed to get tested/etc and found that I had enough vision to drive for a few years there in my state due to a loophole, before it got worse enough over the pandemic that its probably no longer an option.

So as a sightwalker, one who has lived in both the world of the sighted, and of the fully blind, as well as the shadows between, who is now losing his sight fully, my recommendation is anybody with failing vision should leverage the sight they may still have to prep themselves for having none at some point.

And if you find yourself without any sight, and find yourself wondering what could have been, my advice is that's its best to instead consider what you are going to DO (future tense), instead of what you could have DONE (past tense). We can't change the past my friend. The hardest part of being blind for me is the silence and the loneliness, being trapped in my own head, and knowing that I could not change the events that took my sight. If you find yourself in that space wishing things could be different, then your already on the journey of acceptance, so just make sure you accept yourself.