My grandparents have been on a similar "no sugar, no white flour" diet as me for about five years now (they take it a step further and don't eat things like potatoes either) and apparently they feel healthier than they've felt in decades - but everyone around them just scoffs at it. My dad eats fairly healthy, and I'd say very healthy compared to most Americans, but he too hasn't exactly tried that kind of diet.
Yeah, a few years ago someone I knew had basically the same surgery as me. Except he didn't even quit smoking before he had the surgery - claiming he didn't have to. Then he actually had to spend 2-3 weeks in the hospital afterwards because he was healing so slowly. I left the hospital in two DAYS.
Ahh. My wife's cousin actually recently got some kind of weird problems from taking birth control that are probably going to stay with her for life. Now she suddenly can't eat certain foods, I don't remember what happened. As for me, I would never have kids (with my own genes) halfway just because any kid would have a high chance of having eyesight as bad as or worse than mine. Either way I'd rather just adopt and spare some kid an abusive home or orphanage lol.
As for parents... well, nowadays I don't talk to anyone in my family, they more or less disowned me when I moved abroad and got married. But a few years ago my dad told me that everyone in the family thinks I'm really weird and that I have something wrong in my head, and that they've thought so for a long time. And I was like, if you thought that, why did none of you ever take me to get psychological testing? (BTW I have taken it and I'm perfectly normal except for that I have slightly above-average intelligence and adaptation skills, and that I like to fantasize. Pretty sure fantasizing is a skill I taught myself through fandom).
And also, no one in my family really treated me differently despite that I'm almost blind. Sometimes this is perfectly fine, but a lot of the time it's unfair. My pupils don't contract and don't change in light, yet I never had prescription sunglasses (just like, clip-on sunglasses that are awful and super heavy). I never had any kind of reading help (no magnifying glasses, no large-print books - which btw I didn't even know existed until like five years ago). My dad would expect me to find things in two seconds despite that when you have ex. a pile of clothes, my eyes can't distinguish the separate pieces so well. And since I was TAUGHT to not use any help like that, I became someone who doesn't get help even when I really need it, and I probably missed out on a lot of stuff (if it were easier to read I would read more books).
Like I want to do arts and crafts, but every time I try I realize the reason why I get so frustrated is because I can't see shit, or I try to read a book and realize I never read books (that aren't on the computer) anymore because it's so difficult, so I really need some kind of magnifying glass thingy : / I do want to go out and be active but I feel like shit when I realize I can't do some stuff. Like, someone even just shows you a photo on their smartphone or your potential employer points to a paper and you smile and go "mmhm" and pretend you can see it....
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Yeah, a few years ago someone I knew had basically the same surgery as me. Except he didn't even quit smoking before he had the surgery - claiming he didn't have to. Then he actually had to spend 2-3 weeks in the hospital afterwards because he was healing so slowly. I left the hospital in two DAYS.
Ahh. My wife's cousin actually recently got some kind of weird problems from taking birth control that are probably going to stay with her for life. Now she suddenly can't eat certain foods, I don't remember what happened. As for me, I would never have kids (with my own genes) halfway just because any kid would have a high chance of having eyesight as bad as or worse than mine. Either way I'd rather just adopt and spare some kid an abusive home or orphanage lol.
As for parents... well, nowadays I don't talk to anyone in my family, they more or less disowned me when I moved abroad and got married. But a few years ago my dad told me that everyone in the family thinks I'm really weird and that I have something wrong in my head, and that they've thought so for a long time. And I was like, if you thought that, why did none of you ever take me to get psychological testing? (BTW I have taken it and I'm perfectly normal except for that I have slightly above-average intelligence and adaptation skills, and that I like to fantasize. Pretty sure fantasizing is a skill I taught myself through fandom).
And also, no one in my family really treated me differently despite that I'm almost blind. Sometimes this is perfectly fine, but a lot of the time it's unfair. My pupils don't contract and don't change in light, yet I never had prescription sunglasses (just like, clip-on sunglasses that are awful and super heavy). I never had any kind of reading help (no magnifying glasses, no large-print books - which btw I didn't even know existed until like five years ago). My dad would expect me to find things in two seconds despite that when you have ex. a pile of clothes, my eyes can't distinguish the separate pieces so well. And since I was TAUGHT to not use any help like that, I became someone who doesn't get help even when I really need it, and I probably missed out on a lot of stuff (if it were easier to read I would read more books).
Like I want to do arts and crafts, but every time I try I realize the reason why I get so frustrated is because I can't see shit, or I try to read a book and realize I never read books (that aren't on the computer) anymore because it's so difficult, so I really need some kind of magnifying glass thingy : / I do want to go out and be active but I feel like shit when I realize I can't do some stuff. Like, someone even just shows you a photo on their smartphone or your potential employer points to a paper and you smile and go "mmhm" and pretend you can see it....