Today a lady told me off for “not seeing she needed help.” So I took out my prosthetic eye.
I was waiting to pick up a prescription today when I heard some shuffling beside me.
For context, I’m blind on my left side. I lost vision in my left eye from glaucoma and eventually had the eye removed, so unless something is directly in my line of sight, I genuinely might not see it.
When I finally turned around, I saw an older lady struggling to pick something up, so I offered to help her.
She snapped at me and said not to bother, because if I “actually wanted to help” I would have been more proactive.
I told her I was sorry, but I’m legally blind and would have helped sooner if I had seen her.
She then hit me with, “People nowadays want to self-diagnose everything to avoid responsibility.”
So I had it.
I took out my prosthetic eye, held it up, and told her, “You can diagnose it yourself if you’re so uncertain.”
Not a word from her after that.