This is very very frustrating, I am not being rude.i can not go back and forth like a visual person and quote, so when saying this if the words don't match up perfectly please forgive those who are blind.
OP ask for help, saying she needs a stamp so she husband gets from point a to point b, without the senerio of verbally directing him.
I tell her she can not ask the way she wrote it because Disney does not have an accommodation for that. I say, I understand lots of visual disabliities and I am visually disabled. I asked her to think of accommodations without what the disability is and ask for them. I make suggestions like cane, guide dog and holding elbows.
She write back he is not blind he does not need a cane, he does not need a guide dog, and we can OT walk side by side because the queues are not big enough, so walking arm to arm won't work.
I say I don't get it, if he is not blind, does not need a cane, does not need a guide dog, does not need a human guide and can see just fine her words, then what is the problem.
She write back that I am not being helpful. Praising others who, please don't take this wrong you others, who are in some of the same boat as her, they admit they don't use a cane, or aids.
So first let me say, I am not questioning your husbands disability, I get it, I know it is gradual and I know what it is like, I don't have the same visual problem, but I do have a problem that is very fluctuating and changing over the years.
I was questioning your need for accommodation, and what you wanted, because if he needs no help than why are you asking? I don't mean that rudely at all, I just needed to know. It is like the hundreds of post over the year that say, we need a stamp to cut in line, but when a w/c is suggested they say oh no, we don't need that. I did not accuse you that was the case, but I did ask what is it you would like, and maybe did not get it out right.
I suggested orientation for several reasons, because you stated you were leading him by hand, any person who has been visually impaired knows that is not the way. I tried not to accuse you but to tell you to lead by elbow. You shoot back that you can't walk arm and arm, if you can't walk hand in hand. I don't think you understand, because you would not be walking arm in arm. There is a technique used that would be very beneficial, I won't write it, please go to orientation training and you will learn better ways to help him.
I suggested a cane, you shoot back he is not blind, a cane can only be giving to a certain type of person, again maybe why I questioned and maybe should not have, your needs. You see, anyone can walk into a good will and buy a w/c, anyone can walk into Disney and rent a w/c. Have you ever wondered why they don't rent out white canes, have you ever seen one in a good will. It is not because they wouldn't sell, it is because it is illegal for them to sell at good will or rent from even a pharmacy. There are laws that actually protect white cane users, and in ever state there is a law for those who use one and do not need it, it is a crime to use a white cane and not need one, unlike a w/c.
That being said, even in the early stages of macular deg. Your husband would most likely be well within the law to have one, and especially if ssa has a claim they excepted. A doctor can not even order you a cane, I don't think. Only services for the blind or blind federation places like lighthouse can get them for you. At least that is my experience, 46 years blind and my doctor has never ordered me a cane.
Suggest a cane which is giving during orientation, because I know many blind persons, those who start using a cane before they absolutely need it do far better most of the time than those who put it off for years. Why because we still have some usable site and can coordinate what we have to train our bodies to listen to and work with, and with some sight it is easier to learn than once you have very little site.
I am sorry if your husband is in the place that he would not even listen to good advice, or and I am not being rude, you are in a place that good advice can not be heard. You shoot back that a cane would not help with poles, sorry I am an expert, 46 years of using a cane, it would help, you and he have not had the training to understand how it would help, and how it can be very beneficial. I will try to not take it as an I cult that I am being told that a cane can not help when that is how I got around most of my life, and as I say, I have don't Disney by myself with just a cane and never even had a GAC card. Because orientation training taught me how to.
Honestly, I am trying to be helpful. I feel for you both. If he is unwilling to get a cane or dog now, please ask services for the blind or lighthouse if there is anything they can help train you with. Maybe someone will help you learn to use the elbow technique even if your husband does not want to go and learn it yet. It will benefit and it will help you guide him thru the lines.
I'm sorry if you took me wrong, I honestly am not trying to be rude, and honestly I do understand. And I was just trying to tell you, why Disney did not give you accommodations, it is like the person who demands a GAC card and is told to rent a w/c. I was trying to give you hints that even if he does not need the cane every minute of the trip, like those who do not need a w/c every minute of there trip. That does not mean a person in a w/c can not get up and walk, it also does not mean your husband can not fold the cane when outside, it does not mean that he can not have you guide him when in haunted mansion. It just means he has the cane to let others know he has a problem, it gives him the right to have the accommodation. Those who refuse a w/c at Disney, are not giving a GAC card, they are told use a w/c if you have stamina problems, if you refuse you get nothing. That does not mean you don't have a problem, that does not mean you don't need an accommodation, it means you have refused the accommodation Disney is willing and by law has to give. That is okay. I was trying maybe without spelling it out, Disney had a man, who in there opinion walked up to them, with no obvious disability, who could walk without a cane, walk outside just fine, and in there opinion was asking for an accommodation that did not need accommodations. If he was a stamina person those on this board would understand that the disability was unseen and the accommodation was get a w/c. I fully understand and would hope you would appreciate that to many GAC cards are handed out. So when a person who can walk, has no visible disability and appears to see just fine, walks up to a CM and asks for a GAC to get from point a to point b, the response is probably going to be no. I am not saying this is what you are doing. But please appreciate that in disneys mind they can not read what your husbands problem is. If you had a cane, one that can not be bought even in a pharmacy and is illegal to carry if you do not need one, then there would be no question in disneys mind what you where asking for, but you would not need to ask, if you had the cane, just like those with w/c do not need to ask they are automatically accommodated.
I hope that clarifies and I am trying to be helpful.orientation is what would help. If not for him, then you try.