Each of the 40 adolescents with visual impairment and the best friend were similar in gender, ethnicity, grade in school, grades earned in school, and dating experience. Twelve of the best friends also had a disability. On the Intimate Friendship Scale both the adolescents with visual impairment and their best friends rated the dimensions of Frankness/Spontaneity, Giving/Sharing, Trust/Loyalty, and Attachment as being the most salient characteristics in the reported best friendship. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests to examine the effect of gender (male, female), vision status (blind, low vision), and grade group (junior high school, senior high school) yielded significant interaction effects for Frankness/Spontaneity and Trust/Loyalty.