Well, my feet were always wide - wide enough and flat enough that I ended up at the orthopedist's at one point, and was told that my feet would continue to get wider and wider because they weren't strong enough (what a bunch of bull ... even pregnancy didn't get me to the point he was implying). So by my teens, I was wearing boys' sneakers and oxfords, and old lady pumps for dress-up shoes. It's amazing to me nowadays that I actually have a selection to make when buying shoes!
And I had terrible problems with my eyes from age 3 or 4 onward. I was cross-eyed, then far-sighted, then near-sighted without ever going through normal vision. I used to see a specialist at Sibley Hospital every 3 months, and I had glasses from age 4 onward (Gary Larson-esque cat-eye ones in pale pink and pale blue, at first). In my senior year of high school, when I actually had some friends and was getting slightly socialized, I decided that I wanted contacts. They also came in handy when I started martial arts in college. But by the time I was 30, dry-eye syndrome had set in, and I couldn't wear them easily anymore.
My main feeling about glasses at this age is that people perceive glasses-wearers as both smarter and more trustworthy than the average bear!
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Well, my feet were always wide - wide enough and flat enough that I ended up at the orthopedist's at one point, and was told that my feet would continue to get wider and wider because they weren't strong enough (what a bunch of bull ... even pregnancy didn't get me to the point he was implying). So by my teens, I was wearing boys' sneakers and oxfords, and old lady pumps for dress-up shoes. It's amazing to me nowadays that I actually have a selection to make when buying shoes!
And I had terrible problems with my eyes from age 3 or 4 onward. I was cross-eyed, then far-sighted, then near-sighted without ever going through normal vision. I used to see a specialist at Sibley Hospital every 3 months, and I had glasses from age 4 onward (Gary Larson-esque cat-eye ones in pale pink and pale blue, at first). In my senior year of high school, when I actually had some friends and was getting slightly socialized, I decided that I wanted contacts. They also came in handy when I started martial arts in college. But by the time I was 30, dry-eye syndrome had set in, and I couldn't wear them easily anymore.
My main feeling about glasses at this age is that people perceive glasses-wearers as both smarter and more trustworthy than the average bear!