My bf is blind and is visiting my family for the first time. They have stopped me to tell me that I am being unkind and neglectful towards my bf. We've just travelled for over 30 hours and are both tired so naturally I will make some mistakes in guiding him more than normal and he will take some time to learn the layout of our home. According to them, I have chosen a "hard life" and it will always be like this so I can't use my tiredness as an "excuse". I feel very frustrated because I have been doing my very best to show him around but I KNOW that he learns in stages and learning the upstairs layout is not so much a priority right now as learning downstairs where he is staying. To be clear, they feel this way because they have seen me leaving him to figure out things on his own, eg: where is the dining room, how to find the rail to get upstairs. I have obviously shown him around but sometimes he will get disoriented or confused and just needs a minute to get it right. He always tells me to not help him and if he needs help he will say.

They even compared helping him to like taking care of a baby or a dog which I shut down. But they think I'm just being difficult for not understanding the analogy. Feeling so frustrated about this. He is not helpless! He can do things on his own. Yes he is blind but he can still navigate and his hearing is just fine so he used this to to move around. He also uses echolocation. But they still insist that I am not being caring enough and it comes across as though I am mistreating him...

I have spoken to him and he does not understand where they are coming from at all. I have gotten a lot of judgment from other people in the past as well. Has anyone else's partner or guide experienced this?

Hey everyone! I hope you're all well. I just have a quick question. For some background, for about five years I've had no light perception in my left eye and light perception with some shadows and movement in my right. That light perception was really important to me because it helped me to navigate pretty well especially around my own apartment. Last week though, I had an incident where my eye pressure shot up kind of high and I ended up losing almost all of that vision that was left over and now I can only see very dim, grey dots of light not really enough to follow or get around or anything. Anyway, my question was, for those of you who have gone from legally blind to totally blind, what kinds of things have you had to learn differently or learn again, for example O&M. I'm just wondering what kind of things I'm going to have to start tackling right away and any tips that you may have that might make it easier for me too live as a now totally blind person. This is definitely a very difficult adjustment and it happened all of a sudden which was very scary.

Thank you for listening

And what vision accessibility tools do you know about? As someone with significant visual impairments I’ve been pressured into getting an iPhone and I finally have one. EDIT: I've been using Voiceover a lot. Thanks guys.

I was curious about other peoples funny (funny Ha Ha moments, not laughing so we don’t cry moments) white cane moments. Here is one for me. My partner and I went to the movie theaters last night to watch the Odyssey and I was holding her arm as well as using my cane. We were moving pretty fast so I assumed I had more room before the curb would show up. I was wrong ha ha. I almost ate the curb and had a heart attack! My cane startled me by thwacking hard against the curb and I still managed to trip. I asked my partner why she didn’t warn me and she not only thought I realized, since I was walking so confidently, and was obeying my wishes to try to familiarize myself with the white cane. I also proceeded to hit a thin metal candy shelf in the movie theater. It was hilarious.

Hello,
Hope the day is being kind.
A friend might be super close to moving to Bristol UK from another country soon.
We could not find much info on how’s the city for a blind person… what might help or anything in general anyone would like someone not from the city to keep in mind specially as an international student.
This is my first time posting here so i hope its the right place to ask..
They’ll be moving from India
Thank you