Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
Basically you need to wait out high school. This gets better later. When people are adults they group based off interests and not based off "we happen to be in the same class". Also once you're 18 there's things like online dating, if you're looking for someone more than a friend.
Everyone I've talked to and also my own experiences with it: if you're not super, super normal then you can't make up for the blindness in high school. My brother managed it, but his hobbies are fishing and such and he lived in Florida, which is just about as normal as you get. But most blind people, myself included, had a problem with this at that age.
You might be able to find clubs or something but that depends where you are, and if the school will freak out because you wanted to attend something after class without supervision.
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If college means that you're over 18, care staff are involved, and you don't have something other than blindness going on, that's probably most of the problem. People don't really want to have a third person in the relationship all the time. Also, being independent turns you from someone that people pity to someone that people admire, for better or worse.
If you're in high school (i.e. pre-18) the aid is *absolutely* the problem because any adult in that situation has authority over everyone else and you're essentially walking around with a teacher on your shoulder. I didn't have an aid in high school, but I did for elementary and middle school, and the difference was amazing. Not amazing enough that I have close friends from that time, but people actually started interacting and having conversations.
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