Tell us what you would lose

Please take a moment and try to imagine a life without sight. We've already asked some of Britain's best loved celebrities to tell us what they'd lose from their lives and now we'd love you to share your thoughts.

Tell us what you think you would lose from your life if you lost your sight. Sight loss impacts people in different ways. While you do lose some things, you can adjust and many people find things as well. If you are blind or partially sighted, what do you feel you lost and what have you found?

Read what other people have told us they would lose, then use the form to tell us what you would lose.

  • Claire, Aston-le-Walls

    I wouldn't loose, I would gain. My husband to be, is totally blind and there is not much he can't do (drive is the only one). Sometimes i wear a blind fold in the evening and he looks after me, cooks, washes up, pours the wine, watch the TV with AD and I feel closer to him. He gives me safe jobs to do as I am a novice in his world. However I do have the luxury that I can remove my blind fold and see again.

  • Jessy, Lincoln

    I would lose the ability to drive. I have only recently learnt to drive and if I couldnt do it anymore I would re-lose that freedom.

  • Clair, Cheadle, Manchester

    As my husband is losing his sight due to RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa). I would like to take this opportunity to say what he can do, he looks after our 14 month old daughter one day a week, he changes nappies, makes her bottles, dresses her, feeds her breakfast, lunch and dinner. He takes her to play centres, music groups, shopping, in fact he does much more than other sighted Dads do. At this age she doesn't even know he's blind, to her he's just Daddy

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Last updated: 21 September 2009

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Tessa Sanderson

Tessa Sanderson

"In my heart I would not lose the love that I have felt over the years for my family or remembering the good times I have shared with special people when sighted.
I would be deeply saddened by not being able to see all the beautiful things that god has created for us to see and enjoy seeing in this world and that includes the faces of my family and friends as they grow old with grace and charm.
My life without my sight would be a wilderness of darkness deep inside of me knowing that old lamppost light I often loved to see over the Winter months outside my home I would never be able to see again.
But although my world would change physically my life would not be over"

Nick Faldo

Nick Faldo

"It's difficult to pin down exactly what it would be that I would miss the most in that situation but I think it would probably be just the experience of looking into someone's eyes and seeing their emotion. The expression of surprise in my kid's eyes when they experience something new, or just someone looking back at you with a smile, the simple pleasures in life that I just can't imagine not being able to see. It's those small but powerful things that we often take for granted that I think I'd miss the most."

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Raymond Blanc

Raymond Blanc

"I can scarcely imagine the misery of losing all perception of colour - of not being able to see the scarlet changing to orange of a beautiful, ripe tomato; the gold skin of an apricot, or the gold flushed with red of a peach; the bright emerald of a skinned broad bean, the soft green of freshly podded pea, or the darker hue of a french bean."

Twiggy

Twiggy

"When I consider the question 'what would I lose if I lost my sight?', the answer is everything we take for granted, the things we see around us every day. The thought of no longer seeing the faces of my children, or my husband, is truly heartbreaking. It also makes me realise how lucky I am to have the greatest gift - sight."