About Glasses
About You!
I was about eight years old when I first noticed that, unlike me, other kids could see the blackboard without squinting. I didn’t want to get glasses so I didn’t tell my parents that I had a slight vision problem.
When I was eleven, the school sponsored a vision screening for students. My mother was horrified to receive a report along the lines of, ‘Did you know your daughter can’t see an arm’s length past her face?’ So much for avoiding glasses.
How about you? Do you wear glasses? When did you get your first pair?
Blessings!
Sue
I was about the same age as you when I got my glasses. I had never said anything to my parents because I didn’t realize I was supposed to be able to see individual leaves on the trees. I remember clearly what an amazing experience it was driving home with my new glasses on, and being able to see all of those details instead of big blobs of color! I prefer contacts now, and when I take them out my husband always calls “I’m over here!” 🙂
What a perfect example of a child’s ‘view’ of normalcy. When our son got glasses at age 10 he said, “I know what glasses do. They put black lines around everything!”
I laughed when I read the above, very nicely described!
I got my first glasses only 4 years ago, just for reading, you only realize how much you read until you need glasses for it! my parents have glasses and 2 of my children have glasses. My little niece, who is 4, wears glasses, she use to squint her eyes all the time, that was the give away that she could not see everything right.
I bet it was hard to adjust to glasses as an adult, Jackie. I guess I should be thankful that I did my adjusting when I was a kid! I remember my first pair. They were a hideous blue. The glasses-fitting guy just kept showing me little kid’s frames and I finally decided the blue were the least horrible!