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We, sight-impaired people, cannot see a smile, or a wave of the hand, or “catch someone’s eye”, we cannot recognise a person’s face.
Every time there are people they are all, each one of them, strangers to us until someone says “Hi Bill” or Jenny or Cliff.
We cannot be proactive as any one we approach could be a total stranger.
We cannot start the communication, if you don’t start it then we don’t exist. We are just ignored…
And so we press on.