I have an odd relationship with my glasses. I hated them at first, but at the same time, I do have to wear to see clearly. And it is my own fault that I even need them, as I have a bad habit of looking at bright screens and as a result, I ended up worsening my vision. And I dislike the concept of contact lenses, because they feel too alien to me. Imagine putting something your eye and not hating it. It couldn’t be me. I hate, hate my glasses, but now years later, I can’t imagine myself without. I guess this kind of a stockholm syndrome of sorts?
And I can’t help but wonder about others who also might share a similar sentiment, people who have grown attached, for lack of a better word, to the assistance tools they need to go through life normally. For instance, being attached to your crutches and your wheelchair if you can’t move without assistance. I have even seen people take pride in the fact in being disabled! Now, this might be close-minded of me, but I don’t see how not being to go anywhere without your tools is anything to take pride in. Acceptance, yes, but not exactly pride.
Then again, it might be because that they’re disabled that they view things differently. Just because they value their disability as part of who they are doesn’t exactly mean that society shouldn’t listen to their pleas to put fewer obstacles in their or anyone else who’s disabled, path.
And after all, almost nothing in life which is worth having is an unalloyed good. We’re all sometimes driven to distraction by our family, our friends, our hobbies, or our jobs, no matter how much we love them overall. Even people endowed with extraordinary beauty or talents will sometimes feel the downside of those blessings.
But on the other hand, a person valuing their disability doesn’t just mean that they can find some scrap of comfort in the way that they or others deal with their disability, as sometimes people find some comfort after a bereavement, by learning about their inner strength or deepening their relationship with friends. Plenty of disabled people value their lives with disability, not just despite their disability.
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I also wear glasses and at first I only needed them for driving but then I got attached to them and now I need them to take me everywhere so I feel you on that. I think it’s great to tie that together with assistance tools and taking into account what people need just to get up and get out of bed in the morning and get on with their day.
I am practically useless without my glasses since I can’t see dilly-squat without them. It has gotten to the point were I can’t even feel them on my face anymore, but it feels wrong when I have contacts in and I’m not wearing my glasses. I guess I can say that I have also became attached to my glasses as well.
I hate the way I look with glasses so I always end up wearing my contacts wherever I go haha. But I totally get what you mean, without my visual aids I can’t see like 4 feet in front of my own face :’]. But I do love my contacts because they always come in fun colors, so I can have have blue eyes, green eyes, gray eyes, or even my normal black eyes. It’s almost kinda dysmorphic when I see myself with glasses on at this point because I look so strange in the mirror. I always associate myself with contacts.
It is interesting how people view glasses so separately from other aids such as wheel chairs. It definitely seems like an odd thing to single out. Perhaps because glasses are their own accommodation, it means that planning doesn’t have to account for that kind of disability? Either way, glasses show that aids can become de-stigmatized, and that their is hope for other aids to become an accepted part of “normal” life.