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of me. | read the print out as | went through the —_was just a color overlay” my mom explained to my
shades. The words started to dance. The greens teacher, as she rolled her eyes. School got easier
gave me tonal vision, and the purples made pictures after that. There were still struggles ahead of me,
show up between the spaces on the page. The but now | could see a way to get to the top.
most fun had to be blue hue that made the floor In the latter years of my life, | am grateful
alternate between being too close and too far away _ for the label of idiot. Without that motivation | would
from my foot, as | marched around the paper room. have never become anAstudent. The glasses where
Eventually, | was able to stumble back to my seat. no miracle cure. | was still reading at a level below
The one that affected my vision the least were the my peers, but at least now I'm not an “idiot.” The
sets of red and white. When | looked at the page, _ teachers still ruled me out as hopeless, but there
everything went quiet; even more than it had when _ was still a chance to prove myself to everyone else.
the lenses were off. There was a Seeing Eye Chart All | had to do was look through my rose colored
across the room that was still moving but putting glasses.
the whiter lenses on over top of the yellow made it
disappear.
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class for lunch. She gave me the glasses and the
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