react-native-image-picker: value returned from showImagePicker doesnt tell you if user blocked permission (Android)

Question

I want user to select a profile picture using either camera or photo gallery. I use react-native-image-picker to give user choice.....using below code:

import ImagePicker from 'react-native-image-picker';

export const _imagePickHandler = userId => {
  const options = {
    title: 'Select Profile Pic',
    takePhotoButtonTitle: 'Take photo with your camera',
    chooseFromLibraryButtonTitle: 'Choose photo from library',
  };

  ImagePicker.showImagePicker(options, async imgPickResponse => {
    if (imgPickResponse.didCancel) {
      console.log('User cancelled image picker');
    } else if (imgPickResponse.error) {
      console.log('Image Picker Error: ', imgPickResponse.error);
    } else {
      //code for success
    }
  }); 
};

When user click 'deny', imgPickResponse.error returns Permissions weren't granted.....and this is expected.

However the problem comes when user clicks 'deny and never ask again'.....imgPickResponse.error AGAIN returns Permissions weren't granted. However if user has chosen this I want a different course of action.

ALSO...if I use the check() method from react-native-permissions in the callback function for showImagePicker() I get the same issue; regardless of whether user has 'denied' or 'denied and never ask again' I get the same response of 'denied'....it does not give me 'blocked' as Id expect.
See code below

export const _checkPermissions = async permission => {
  let result = await check(
    Platform.select({
      android: PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE,
      ios: PERMISSIONS.IOS.PHOTO_LIBRARY,
    }),
  );
  return result;
};

Im using react-native-permissons version 2.1.5

Finally, here is my AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name = "android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>