[fiblye]

I never saw leaves on trees either until I finally got glasses at 18. I was told constantly as a kid that I needed glasses, but I just brushed it aside because I couldn't imagine things being better. If only a doctor would've told me to put on a pair and walk around before refusing, I think my life would've been quite different.

Then again, when I finally did get glasses, I refused to wear them more than a few minutes a day for my first month. They just made me uncomfortable, visually and mentally. It seems like people are always most comfortable with what they know, even if it's objectively worse.

[glaberficken]

I still vividly remember the day I walked out of the opticians at 9yo with my first pair of corrective glasses (myopia). It really freaked me out because I literally saw the sidewalk ride up the side of adjacent building walls as I walked along the street. I wanted to immediately take them off. But after a few hours that feeling just went away.