Dating a blind person does create a dating understanding of day-to-day life and struggles, and you know with absolute certainty that the person is seeing you for you. Their first impression of you is strictly personality. I met Joe in January five years ago when we were both attending a weekend event called Taste of College where students who are blind or visually impaired tour various colleges together. I wish I did, though. The funny thing about it is that Joe remembers it like it happened just yesterday.
We talked person that weekend just a few days ago, actually, and hearing Joe talk about it was kind of like someone telling impaired a story about how they met someone for the first time.
To Disclose or Not
But that someone was me! I saw him six months later at Summer in the City, a week long summer person run by the same program that did Taste of College. Dating remember more about that. I was shy, he was confident. If he was ever nervous about crossing the busy streets of Chicago or getting on the train, I never knew.
Dating 101
Joe and I met again one year later when we were both attending the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired in Jacksonville, Illinois, roughly 30 miles outside Springfield.
It was a residential school, and we only went home every couple of weeks. Our friendship strengthened impaired we became the visually subreddit dating friends. Friends first is always best. Stay tuned for part two of this post, when Alicia talks about when she and Joe decided to start dating and what their relationship is like now.
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