Talk to my friend as the blind man ain't listening...

An interesting phenomena most blind people face and indeed most people with an obvious disability face, is people refusing to speak directly to them and opting instead to speak to who ever is accompanying them. After a few cool looking runs on my first day with Grant we were approached by a snowboarder.
Random snowboarder:“So is he blind?”
Grant:“Yes he is”
Random Snowboarder:“So how long has HE been riding for?”
Grant:“Why don’t you ask HIM?”
Random Snowboarder:“How long you been riding for?”
Me:“I started this year and have had about 20 days on the snow in total”
Random snowboarder:“How’s he finding it?”
Grant:“Dude just ask him”
p.s. really loved Random Snowboarder it was very nice of him to approach us and we really like it when people do.
p.p.s. maybe it was nothing to do with my eyesight but my sheer muscle and pure good looks that scared him from asking me directly!