Since this book was billed as a memoir, I was hoping that it would be more focused on the writer’s personal experience in his blindness journey. There was a lot of info dumping about the NFB and other US organizations representing and assisting blind and visually impaired Americans. As someone already in this orbit, there was nothing much new or interesting in that regard. The only thing it did was make me madder and madder at the NFB’s bully mentality where they think that there is only one best way, and that is their way, thereby stripping blind folks of their own personal choices. But that’s obviously not the author’s fault.

When the author did share personal stories of his life, I appreciated that it was his personal thoughts. He came across as judgy and defensive, and seemed to disrespect other groups of disabled folk, but it was his emotional journey, and in that way, was interesting to me. It just didn’t make up very much of the book, a supposed memoir.