Her entitlement

Just reading your other posts - if the 20k is in her name it will stop her being eligible for certain benefits.

It is not exactly true but the blind have the ability to be "all seeing" as they do not look at someone and believe a prejudice but at the same time they do hear someone and believe a prejudice.

The original poster is partially blind and his wife is totally blind - do not underexagerate either his feelings or her feelings in all of this.

Noone asks to be blind in the same way as noone asks to be partially blind or blinded as a result of an accident.

Blindness, physically and mentally totally truamatic; still it does not mean that as a result of birth you are gifted with empathy for others around you or an acceptance of what you have - who would not be angry and bitter to be born without sight?

Complex, always complex.

OK it is Keler (I think) anyway I believe a deaf, dumb and blind kid (still plays a mean pin ball - well she didn''t say that).

However, disability these days is seen as a meal ticket without really any sense in my view of the real person and the real empathy and humanity that lies within.

I defintely would like to hear a little more about your circumstance (from your point of view mine is plastered on this website - I wasn''t born deaf, dumb or blind quite the reverse I have ADD which is a gift but also a curse).

My sight and my feelings make me a nightmare to some but also a comfort to others. I think that is good (maybe not sure).

I just thought I would look up on the net Keller and it is Helen Keller back in the 1800s that people remember.

How sad when life has moved on so much since then. In fact Helen was not born either blind or with what was recognised as a generative disease or condition. Apparently as a result of a fevour she became blind and as a result of her parents being well off she went into a programme of working with her diability.

She then went on to be the first woman to gain a degree.

Goodness, that was a long time ago. We have had a blind PM recently and many blind acheivements but nothing still goes to the heart in my view of the acheivements that she made by way of publicity for people "gifted" with blindness or partially blindness. I hope never to be gifted with that as although there are many compensations I think that the reduction of sight is just about he most cruel withdrawl of sense that you could possibly inflict.

Possibly a bit heavy for most posters and maybe for the Original poster - just what I think.