Dang I'm sorry to have missed this when you wrote it. Can't imagine what I could possibly have been doing... lol.
Parents. Sometimes they fail in the most major way. I'm sorry you had to put up with that kind of, well, let's be blunt: abuse and neglect. I'm at a point in life too where I'm realizing that most of the shortcomings and shame I've believed about myself were generally untrue. It really sucks that as a kid you were shamed and ridiculed on top of constantly injuring yourself. IMO a caring parent would be concerned as to what was making the kid so clumbsy, and look into that, not label and beat them.
Even though we're from different cultures, I think there was a good stretch of dark ages in parenting and only now is there a renaissance where parents realize, oh shit, the way I raise my kid affects how they turn out as an adult. Not to mention the oh shit, kids are not adults and need positive guidance factor. I've got a bit of hope for future generations. No hope, really, for the older ones who don't want to grow. But I'm glad to hear your mom acknowledged and sort of validated your experience in her own distant way.
Also, you make me wonder if I should go to the optometrist. I bump and drop and trip way more than I used to. I thought it was just a hormonal thing. Maybe it's both.
Thank you! Go and get it checked, you could be surprised. I'm quite enjoying the novelty of seeing granular detail in the distance
That must be amazing! I remember when my cousin first got her glasses, she couldn't believe she could see the leaves on the trees. I have good long-distance vision, but shorter is fading, and my eyes do a wonky thing sometimes when I'm tired and I get slight double vision for long distances. I suspect one of them isn't pulling her weight.
I was getting double vision too and the optometrist told me that is caused by eyestrain. Definitely get yourself tested!
Saturday at the end of a long hike it was so bad I was tripping over rocks. It was manageable if I covered my left eye for thirty seconds to retrain the wobbly right one, even better if I tilted my head to the right. I asked myself if this was a sustainable way to manage the problem and my answer was no.
I put in for my optometry referral today.
Thanks for the inspiration! LOL
I'm glad you were inspired 😉 You don't have to be like me and spend most of your life falling down stairs
Gaaawwwwwd, I'm sorry! But yeah, also glad. This has only been in the past year or so. I think... Unless this explains the random dizzy spells that I thought were hormonal and stress-related.