I do not have any experience with CVI, but I was born completely blind, and I always knew when my mom was there, by using my other senses. It was just sorta a natural instinct I had.

mom said they thought I was deaf for many years also, because I did not speak a word until I was 4 1/2 years old, my mom thought i was going to be another hellen keller until suddenly out of the blue I started to speak.

but yeah I mean, I remember some of that, and I always knew when my mom was around. I could hear her whenever she walked into the room, I could feel her, I always knew she was there, even when she did not think I did, so that is not unusual no.

he may not be seeing you with his eyes. Even if he is just visually impaired and not completely blind, he probably does not recognize your face or anyone elses either, I still have that issue to this day, but we have our other senses which can tell us just as much as if we did have eyesight, if not more so.

anyway, you are so lucky to be adopting a child like that. I never had any kids of my own, and my wife doesn't want to, because her kids are 25 and 29 and feels she is done with the whole "kids" thing, which I understand in her case, but it doesn't make it any easier on me. I had a lady lie to me about being pregnant once before I met my current wife, and now I want kids more then anything, especially since her youngest who lives with us, hero worships her dad so much and pretty much hates my gutts, so I'm in the process of signing up for big brothers big sisters, so I can at least have contact with a child who really wants a daddy, even if my wife don't want to.