I am 26 and low vision, as of last year I had to move home due to losing my job and my vision getting worse. At the start of this year I had to get surgery on my right eye twice in order to save what vision I have remaining.. I've been unable to collect unemployment and am waiting on SSDI (which in my state takes over a year).

Whenever I mention the idea of going back to work, my dad questions whether I can do the job. When I mentioned studying for the LSAT he told me "how can you be a lawyer? it requires so much reading small print".. as if the federal register isn't digital. He's concerned if I get a job at the supermarket near me I'd just get fired.

We live in a growing exurban area but paratransit is nonexistent, public transit will probably never arrive.. yet he complains about having to drive me to doctor appointments and wants me to stay home with them. I have always known I'd have vision issues by age 30, i just didn't know when. My mother and I expressed this to him years ago but he was too oblivious to understand, now that he's getting older there's talk that I at once should be independent and stay close to take care of the two of them in old age.. With what money? SSDI isn't enough to live off of..

A majority of my family members who I speak with live in Europe and are doing fairly well for themselves, several family members are low vision and have problems but are able to build relationships and find work and live comfortably. All my American family tells me is "just move to NYC/Chicago"... Again, with what money.