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HI, I did do some research. I actually adopted my daughter without any previous info on her. However a previous child that we had looked into adopting, but had fallen through (his region closed to adoptions) had a missing limb so I had researched that particular issue and found resources close to me. So when I traveled I told them I wanted to see the children with limb differences first. Then after we had her a few years, then we felt confident adopting another child with similar, but more serious missing limbs.
A couple of things for you, first I would research the rules for Thailand, I don't know them, but many countries have rules about the health of the parent, the ages of the parents, how many children in the home, how long the parents have been married etc. Some countries even have rules about the weight of the parents. Now, some countries will relax thier rules a little for special needs children and some won't. So first make sure you are even eligible to adopt from there, since that would answer the question for you. Then I would suggest if it is possible to look into what resources are near you. Probably if you have any connections they could help you. Also calling the school district to see if they have anyone trained to work with the blind. Where we live if we had a blind child, they would be the only blind child in the school and even the district, so there are no brail books in the library and no teachers who know how to teach stuff the child needs to learn. However we used to live in a town that had a school for the blind that was very good. Living here I would probably not feel comfortable adopting a blind child, but living there I would. As for stares, you just learn to deal with them. Sometimes both of my kids are in wheelchairs and we get some funny looks. Last week we met up with my son's girlfriend and her mom. The girl was on crutches cause she had hurt her foot and the mom was using a cane becuase she has arthritis bad. My son was in his wheelchair and my daughter's prosthetic legs are very bright and dh has hearing aids. So we got lots of stares, we thought it was funny. You learn to have a sense of humor, which it sounds like you already have. My foreign adopted children both learned the language very quickly. It sounds like you would be an awesome mom for this little girl.
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