Comment by glitchc
I don't think it's impolite to ask a clarification question. Parents with their first child often have unrealistic expectations of development milestones. We want to get that out of the way first. Crucially, the OP has not provided a diagnosis (source of blindness), which one would get after soliciting medical advice and conducting tests.
The comment read to me as disrespectfully implying to check with a pediatrician as if OP hadn't already. But ironically... perhaps that was my own disrespectful reading of the comment.