If you had a blind child....?

Question

How would you tell him/her that they have an impairment compared to you, the parent, who can see? Do you ever tell them? And at what age?

Answer 1

What you do not have, you do not miss. People with impairments learn to adapt very well if they do not believe that they have something "wrong" with them.

Answer 2

You don't tell them.  They already know.  But they see other ways, ways that the seeing public can't relate to.

My brother has been brain damaged since age 3.  No one had to tell him he's impaired.  He already knew.  But for his thinking, he thinks in ways that most people can't relate to.