The article is a family-presented case study on how cerebral visual impairment (CVI) impairs the author's 13-year-old child's ability to read print and how the author discovered that braille is the only effective way for their child to access literacy. There is a cohort of individuals with CVI who subconsciously take advantage of other methods to understand the world around them. Chronic nervous system activation, due to the stress a person experiences while trying to read print, quickly turns into a trauma response. Without lightning-speed visual memory for letter-sound associations, fluent print reading simply is not possible. As reading demands increase exponentially beyond fourth grade, a child who is already working overtime to pass as sighted and a print reader is set up for failure, burnout, and despair. With greater recognition of the existence of visual agnosia of letters, including when it is hidden under compensatory strategies, the author believes those supporting literacy access for children with CVI should consider braille, including for children with typical visual acuities.