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I’ve worn glasses since I was eight because my eyesight is awful. If I sit in the back of a movie theater and take off my glasses, I can’t tell the actors have facial features, even in close-ups. LASIK isn’t an option for me because my corneas are too thin.

When my then-three-year-old needed glasses, I didn’t go weep in a corner, but I wasn’t happy she was “like me,” either. Even if an individual person leads a happy life being blind or deaf, it inarguably makes life more difficult. Why would you ever want that for your kid?!

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