I'm sorry your caseworker was so insensitive. From someone I know who is some sort of therapist, I think some therapy programs can be very insensitive to people who are blind. For example, they don't teach therapists anything about body language with people who are blind, and they teach as if everyone could see. I wonder if your caseworker or other therapists would learn how to express their visual expressions to you verbally or tactile-ly over time, as they get to know you. This is more for my curiousity than anything, so of course only answer if you want to, but do you ever talk about facial expressions or other body language verbally with your therapists or others, especially the good therapist from MA? Do you know if it is helpful if they tell you, for example, that they are smiling or tearing up or other body language? Also, do the current therapists you are meeting give you their arm to guide you to a chair or elsewhere? I wondered if they would learn to be more comfortable starting from that, but that could be a long stretch I think. I hope you can find a therapist who is comfortable with it from the beginning.

I don't know, but I imagine a lot of therapists consider it a risk to ever have physical contact with a client. It seems to me like in a lot of public or business situations it's a taboo to have any physical contact, just in case someone is offended by it (and some people, such as some people who have been abused, obviously have a good reason to want to avoid it). But sometimes I wonder if people with various disabilities who use touch a lot might help to change the taboo a little, without being insensitive to people who really do not want to be touched.