Can blind people read and write?

Question

I would like to apologize in advance because I know that I am going to sound pretty ignorant and prejudiced without meaning to be... (about the prejudiced part, at least) but here it goes:

I have recently made a new friend who is blind. He is a great person and we seem to get along really well. And he amazes me day by day because he does everything SO much better than other people who can see.

Tomorrow, I have a sheet that I need him to fill out. It's not in braille, but when I asked him today he said he could do that for me. So how should I approach him?

Just give him the paper and let him figure it out somehow?

Read him what it says and tell him where he should write? (This one makes more sense to me, but again, I don't know anything. And plus I'm afraid I'll somehow end up offending him.)

Answer 1

Just ask him what he wants to do when you give it to him. He'd rather have you be straightforward than embarrass both of you by being weird

Answer 2

Yes. They can be taught to write, and they read with Braille. Plus, sometimes the blind's senses are so much more enhanced than our own. For instance, some can hear individual hertz of a note, or smell things yards and yards away.

Answer 3

just read it to him and then have him put his hand on the paper and guidehis hand to the part that he needs to write whatever down at.

if you two are friends, then you shouldn't offend him, he will understand.