Ahh, memories.
I was born very nearsighted. My mom didn't want to believe it, so she didn't bother to listen to my 1st grade teacher who told her I couldn't read the blackboard from the front row. She said, "Naw....he's lazy, he just doesn't want to do his school work."
By the time I was eight, school administrators told her they wouldn't let me back in school until she took me to an eye doctor.
The eye doctor tested my vision & told my mom "He has to wear glasses."
She said, "Naw, he doesn't need glasses."
He said, "Do you want him to go through his whole life blind?"
After arguing with him some more, she said, "OK....maybe you're right....maybe he needs glasses.....but for how long?"
After he tried some frames on me, I said, "They don't help me see any better." LOL