r/MadeMeSmile • u/bendubberley_ • 16d ago

Wholesome Moments Autistic non-verbal boy speaks directly to his mother for the first time.

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u/LillySqueaks 15d ago

As a minor nearsighted person myself (I'm talking 1.5 and 1), the world changes so much with glasses! I didn't know everything looked so sharp and thought cameras had that "enhance!" Feature you always saw in movies.

I only ever wear them outdoors, though, or if im watching tv from across the room. Anything else, and it's too close to affect my vision.

When you take her on vacations, be sure to pack an extra pair of glasses, nothing more disappointing than not being able to truly see the sights because you forgot/broke your glasses!

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u/mistiry 15d ago

Thanks! She's worn glasses since she was 4 so she's pretty used to them, and mom wears glasses too! The ones she had before the surgery were very strong, as it was for correcting her strabismus. When she originally was tested for all of that, she was still not verbal so determining how her actual vision was doing was a challenge.

But now, at 9, we had to go the surgery route to fix the strabismus. But the side-effect of that is being able to get her new glasses with a proper script that doesn't have to be super strong to correct the strabismus!

We had her first follow-up post-surgery on Wednesday, and she's healing perfectly and with her proper glasses now she had a definite improvement in her far-sightedness and was reading smaller letters than she did prior to surgery with the old glasses.