People just don't like to admit that their disability is actually a disability. Saying that blindness is just a different way of looking at things is basically saying "I don't feel good about myself so I have to lie about something I actually have no control over instead of improving on things that I do." This is a trigger point for some people on this forum though so I'm sure people will disagree with me and this topic might become a clusterfuck. But I do think it's an interesting discussion.

No this isn't a direct answer but it is related to your question, I'm going to key off fo something Blair/Illuminati said in one of her youtube videos and it got me thinking.

I feel like media/society is to blame for this. HOw so? Let's see...

The way disabled people are treated in general by society, but also by media. Blair touched on something I found fascinating in her video, which I'll link below. She calls it 'supercrip' which frankly just makes me think of a disabled gangbanger....but what she means by that, is showing disabled people in media overcoming their disability, no, 'overcoming', and generalizing that anyone can do it. She also hits on the notion of being rewarded for doing everyday tasks by people going oh, you are so brave and so amazing... type comments and rewarding people, from society at large, to other disabled people. Blair also makes a point in that video that disabled is a much, much easier blanket term to use than going okay we got blind people, deaf people, amputees, etc. It's easier to just use disabled for a group as a whole. Like visually impaired is used for people who have somee vision and blind people alike.

Said video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omlNYt782mw

@cross that's exactly what i mean though. I'm not completely disregarding the truth, but yet interpretting the whole thing in a different way that i am blind, and yes "blind" not "differently abled or whatever else people say these days cause for some reason they think that it is disrespectful to say blind? I dont see how, we're blind, so we say that we're blind. But yeah, I'm blind but i'm capable of leading a normal life and not hold on to that one not being able to see factor and either sitting in a corner complaining and crying my entire life, nor being all entitled and demanding. I'm just trying to lead a normal life as much as I can.

My inability to see does not define who I am; it just spells out what I cannot do.  That is why I do not personally refer to it as a disability.  That I cannot see is no different to the idea that I cannot fly.  That is an inability.  While I see the fact that there is a majority of people around me who obviously can see and are doing quite well in their every day lives, even they need help from me from time to time, so are they disabled when I can pass on a bit of information or help them otherwise achieve a task they could not do without me?  Nah, they just needed help.
And in the end, that's what I believe this is all about.  That minoritys are not helped out more often even though they should be is more owing to narcicism rather than anything else; there's a lack of compassion in the case of many when they are not directly involved in or with a situation and or facing certain circumstances.  No, it is not easier to refer to this as an inability; it is easier to refer to it as a disability because lets cry out disability and we're all a bunch of entitled little twists who deserve are rights right now!
No, I'm not discounting blindness is a huuuuuuge hindrance.  No, I'm not opposing the idea that it can mess you up physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, psychologically, spiritually!  No, I'll never say that you can do anything they can do even if you're blind, because you just can't!  You can't pick up a set of keys and drive a car like they can!  You can't safely cross every street like they can!  You can't tell from a picture what you should order like they can!  You can't sit in front of a TV or a big screen and enjoy a show or movie like they can!  If you're blind, these and other things are off limits to you for the most part!  You can't; they can!
And I live with it!  Every, day!  My children are drawing and I can't see their pictures.  My children are struggling to learn to read books and I can't just pick them up and help them with that!  My children see things every day that I do not see, try to show me things they cannot conceptualize, and I'm sure they wish they could just yell at me, "Look at it!  Just, freaking look at it already!  What's the matter with you!"
but this is still just something I can't do.  Has it stopped me from living my life to the fullest?  Arbuable.  Has it stopped me from living my life completely?  Naturally, no.  In some cases I'm one step ahead of the sighted community.  My mom, for all her sight, still can't grasp computers.  She does not know that there are so many ways for her to keep in touch with her grandchildren!  My dad?  My dad doesn't even like holding a phone if he can help it!  My brother?  Every time he goes and plays poker or goes and downloads new crapware onto his PC he's wondering what he did wrong and why it's behaving so stupidly!  Who fixes it?  I do!  Does he learn from it?  Not a bit.  Is he disabled?  Not a bit.
so yes... I see our blindness; take that as you wil!  Some people have it better than I do with light perception or shadow or what have you!  I see nothing, and that nothingness is something that if I tried to put into words would just depress me even further!  But that's where it stops, because to keep looking at it would disable me, and that's where I think a fair amount of people do stop!

The hypocrisy is that they would probably do that thinking it helps, while at the same time demeaning you and talking to others about you when you're present in the room.

If you care, show it with your actions. The order of the words may be symbolic, but we're not in the business of reading symbolism from everything around us.

Thing about "person who is blind" is that you've just shifted it from being defined as the blind person to now you're the person where everyone who has been taught this has to remember that you're not the blind person but the person who is blind.  Which, I mean, if I can think of something more self-defeating I can't do it offhand.

Maybe it'll eventually change language and maybe that matters, but if we change language so that it's the noun who is adjective, we've not changed anything--the person who is tall, the person who is short, the person who is blind, we're right back where we started, it's just now the rule that we write adjectives that way in this hypothetical future, but people will still have adjective-first thinking.

It doesn't matter where the word is.  You can play with language all you want.  People aren't going to think differently because you moved the word blind around.  They're going to think differently because you're not able to meet their gaze, for lack of a better way of putting it.  Not just that, but all the other little things that just scream to the world "I am blind!" that we all do all the time.

Thing is that most blind people do actually live up to the sighted stereotypes.  Want to change what sighted people think?  Start there.  If you aren't interacting with such blind people, that's because even getting as far as being on the internet is a major accomplishment, to be honest.  Go blind later in life and even leaving the house again is a major accomplishment.

It's not like race or something.  Yeah sighted people should totally evaluate us based on us, not on the disability, but if you actually want to say that the stereotype isn't more accurate than not, that's an immediately losing battle by miles, because it is sadly highly accurate.  A bit self-fulfilling, but that doesn't change the point.  If you want to get people to stop applying the stereotype the first step is to make the stereotype inaccurate, not play word games.

8, the comparasons you make are wrong and flawed in many ways. Firstly,  not being able to fly etc cannot be considered on the same grounds as having a disability.  Flying, never has  been, and probably never will be, a normal human ability possessed by anyone. Nieether is it necesary to perform any daily task normal people do. Sighted people needing help isn't the same as a disabled person needing help iether. We need help because a part of our body, that should have been functioning isn't, and we  are in a situation requiring use of that faculty. However,  a sighted relative needing help on a computer is a fundementally different situation. Most people don't know everything to an advanced level. Your relatives likely don't care about computers, or want to know anything about them beyond surfing the net or playing games. Similarly, some blind people might not care about music, or coding to devote the time for advanced knowledge. However, I can garantee, if an executive order was issued that said all companies must relieve employees who aren't power windows users within a year, everyone suddenly would be massively good at computers, and would be competing with each other. In essence, the sighted person chooses not to learn or know something, and can easily learn something if they want to. But the blind person has a fundemental defesit that is independant of efort, and cannot be corrected.
Camlorn, I honestly thought I was the only one understanding the reality of blindness. What people like yourself and me are saying here isn't that people should jump off a cliff  or hang themselves because they realize they have many more limitations that are perminent. What I am saying is that people should simply accept these, not deny them, and move on. But  the reality undoubtidly is that blindness is a very severe disability. It probably easily is the one of the top 5 most severe disabilities anyone can have, when you analyze the daily impact, loss of sensory information etc. Also, blindness combined with another sensory disability or serious medical condition probably would rank in the top 3. Blindness basicly rewires the brain, making it much more dificult to understand spacial concepts etc, but also more importantly, 70% of the  information sighted people get comes through their eyes. I don't think anyone who is born blind truly understands the enormity of that.

Just because you can do many things a sighted person doesn't mean you don't have a disability, or blindness isn't a disability. Look at it this way, the tasks you perform aren't iquivalant to the sighted. We usually have to put in at least twice the efort and energy to accomplish many tasks. We are slower and less efficient on many of them, which puts you at a disadvantage, both in jobs, and life in general as you have less time available.

Blindness is legally and socially speaking a disability, whatever you make of it. If we want to analyse disability in a different way, then disability is classified as something else, regardless of whether one is blind or not. That I can use my iPhone with voiceover is my ability; that a sighted person cannot use an iPhone with voiceover is his disability. That I can get some information that many sighted individuals cannot get through hearing is my ability and respectively their disability. However, disability in terms of what one has or owns as opposed to what one can do or cannot do, is a totally diffrent concept. Disability in the case of having a physical/mental/sensory limitation should by no means be disregarded or avoided because that way we are partly and sometimes largely denying what we have and what we should live with everyday. Of course there are workarounds and this is definitely the best time to be blind because many issues we have have been considered, reproduced and solved; however that doesn't mean we are not blind or that the disability is totally overcome. It's true that sometimes we can do what our sighted counterparts cannot do; it is true that we are skilled, that we have impeccable memory and stuf of this nature, but this comes always as a result of the struggle of our brain for communication and information. The lack of sight as well plays a significant role because our brain is not fludded with information that we would otherwise get if we were not blind: the colour of one's hair, the colour of one's jacket, the brand of one's glasses, one's look and movement and the whole body language is separate information that the brain has to process and this of course involves energy and effort. Our brain, however, is focused somewhere else and that enables us to perfection some skills that we acquire due to blindness. Have you ever thought about how different your lives would be if you weren't blind? How many of us would have this lifestyle that we have today.
To conclude what I have said, and to lay out my viewpoint, blindness in our case is a disability and anything else is wordplay or philosophical discussion that won't lead us anywhere. Thankfully, just as in other facets of life, many of the chritical issues we have are solved and this is probably the time where people with visual impairments can make the best out of their lives and achieve what three/four decades ago was unthinkable. My idea is, teach your sighted friends, colleagues and anyone close to you that you can do most of the things they can but in an alternative way which leads to the same result, and they will be really happy to accept who and how you are.

Well I did hear at least one thing that sparked my interest and which got me to somewhat reevaluate my point in post 8, which is that more often than not those of us who succeed are viewed as very motivated and capable, or to simplify with a word, strong.  The catch here is that, in order to succeed as a blind person, you kind of have to be.  Someone on this topic brought up the idea that yes once a sighted person is out of work they can go get another job immediately even if the job is just cleaning crud off of a counter to put money on the table.  I lost count of how many jobs my brother's had, but I do know that I've had to work twice as hard in every circumstance.  Depending on how you view success, I suppose I'd have to concede that he made out better than I have.  He played basketball while in highschool, had hot chicks pounding on his door, had a child by the time he was 18, had his own car not too long after, went and worked out of state, and my mother loves him to bits, which has helped him out of tight binds even when he's mad at her.
I'm not without my own fair share... I've won various contests and tallent shows, made a fair amount of money throughout my life with my own hands, graduated with honors, was voted most tallented and likely to succeed in highschool, met a US president... No, it wasn't Donald Trump.  I suppose, however, that in the end if you put us toe to toe sighted people would be more likely to talk to him than to me regardless of how many honors or whatever I've managed to acquire.  If sight versus blindness is the real culprit and I've been too dense to see it for what it is, then I'll always be the underdog.