Comment by squigz

I won't speak to functional support - there's plenty of responses here and even more resources easily available for that sort of advice.

But I would like to talk on how you (and others) approach this disability. There's a lot of commenters saying things akin to "blind people can lead a perfectly normal life, especially with all this tech!" - and I'm not saying a blind person can't lead a relatively normal life - but that sort of rhetoric can easily be misused to dismiss very real concerns we have, usually by able-bodied people. And it hurts. It makes you feel like you're the one in the wrong for complaining about being blind.

Being disabled in this way is *hard*. Do not pretend otherwise. Do not act like he's being unreasonable or ungrateful if he complains about his lot. Let him vent about it.

(I am not saying every disabled person should feel sorry for themselves all the time at the expense of personal responsibility. Nor am I saying every disabled person always feels this way. Just my own experience and that of many other disabled people I know.)

(I will mirror one piece of advice another commenter gave: make sure he gets involved with the blind community, at least at a young age, so he knows that's an option)