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"if i need glasses or contacts to correct my vision, what can i call myself if not visually impaired?"

you're a sighted person with glasses/contacts or someone whose vision can be fully corrected. no, i'm not saying you're not disabled, as glasses and contacts are a disability aid. you're just not blind or anywhere on that spectrum because that's not how blindness is measured. the only exception is people whose vision is technically correctable but who don't have access to correction, but that's clearly not you all talking about your blimmin' glasses. stop using blind people as your moral compass. it's not our job to come up with words for sighted people to be more comfortable. all we ask is for sighted people not to use our words. you're allowed to come up with your own words. i've never ever seen someone whose vision is fully corrected with glasses or contacts call themselves visually impaired, blind or similar terms in good faith. it's always some crap like people trying to make a point how blind people are totally accepted and not at all oppressed because "look, i have to wear glasses and i don't struggle at all!" or people using blindness as a quirk, like random 50 year olds who now need the thinnest reading glasses to read tiny print calling themselves "blind as a bat" and these are the same people who are painfully uneducated about blind experiences and often blatantly disrespectful. it's literally never about the ableism that sighted people with glasses or contacts do experience. it's always about entitlement to our words. so no, you're not visually impaired. yes, you are disabled and your experiences with ableism are real. no, it's not our job to make up terms for you. yes, your experience is different from ours in ways you clearly don't understand.