I am completely .
I cannot speak for the treatment of visually impaired people abroad, because I have no experience of that, but the way the op says she has been treated in this country simply does not ring true for me.
10/15 years ago, before access technology was on a par with computers etc it was much harder to get a job than it is now because blind people simply weren?t on an equal footing technologywise, so we couldn?t walk into an interview and say ?I can do this job in this way because of that piece of software which can be obtained from that company?, and so employers could legitimately maintain that the job would be impossible. When I started looking for my first job 13 years ago, I applied for 168 jobs before I was successful.
However now it is much different. For starters, companies are legally not allowed to discriminate against someone on the grounds of their disability. Oh yes some will still discriminate, mostly though out of ignorance. But I could walk into an interview tomorrow and when asked how I manage with computers etc I could list a variety of different access solutions, even to the extent that I could bring in a copy of my access software and install it on their computer to demonstrate the effectiveness of it, give names and numbers of suppliers, and ensure that government has a scheme called ?access to work? which will fund the cost of said adaptations thus ensuring no employer would be out of pocket.
But even if that is just paper talk, I?ve never personally found that anyone has viewed me any differently because of my disability. Until my ds was born I was a finance manager in the civil service. I?m a sahm now but I help out in ds? reception class 1 day a week, am a member of the PTA, and regularly have children round to my house to play, I have taken other peoples? children to and from school, and last week had a birthday party for ds and had 10 children at my house, and their parents dropped them off and left them with me without any reservations. IMO if there is one area where people would be very cautious of trusting someone with a disability it would be with looking after their children, and I just haven?t found that to be the case.
I am also that someone could compare the difficulties faced by a blind person to those faced by the parent of a child with severe sn. Visual impairment is not a severe disability.
No-one has ever told me that I would not be able to live independently, why wouldn?t I?
I am completely independent, I have a husband, a child, I am a good cook and cook everything from scratch including my own pasta. The only thing I will never be able to do is drive a car (the swines won?t let me have a licence for some inexplicable reason ). The only challenges I face on a daily basis are those of any other parent, my disability certainly does not present challenges for me.
It is of course entirely possible that the op has some other sn apart from her visual impairment, but blindness alone should not be that hard to deal with, if it is then maybe it?s a matter of confidence rather than inability.
As for shaving under arms, no reason why one couldn?t use a normal razer, but if you didn?t have the confidence for that then there are plenty of electric ones on the market which are perfectly safe.