Hi June. Well I feel the same about crowds I get very easily stressed and flustered especially when I can't breathe. I also understand where Clare is coming from about beign let down by so called friends they often promise you the earth and then don't deliver and its wrong to promise anything when you can't go through with it. Also as a teenager I often used to worry if my blindness would put men off and have never been out with any-one who doesn't have a visual impairment and the few people I know who are visually impaired who got a sighted partner are very very lucky as I must admit I've often found that some of the blind people I have been out with seem to be living very sheltered lives like one guy in his fifties who lived with his Mum and I basically became a carer when he came to stay with me. I know its different when some-one was born with sight and lost their sight and they already have a sighted partner they stay with them because if you love some-one you would do anything for that person. Now though I just think that if a man can't see how indipendent I am and how well I cope with cooking and living on my own etc, if he can't see past the blindness and that i'm just ordinary he must be very shallow. Well that's my rant over for today. Take care. Love Sarah xxxxx