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Our purpose in this article is to investigate how subjects without vision organize their lives. What strategies will they elaborate to construct themselves and to represent the world in which they have to live? To help us analyze this process, we present three movements that accompany its integrative dynamic: affordance, vicariousness, and resiliency. This triptych introduces our special issue devoted to the particular competencies presented by visually impaired subjects in order to optimize their adaptation to a world of sighted subjects. It is not a matter of closing our eyes to “make believe,” but of taking up a scientific stance that will allow us to better understand the specific procedures used to deal with difference.