Comments on: Short Sighted

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:43:01 +0000

Barbie brand or not, Sophie is stylin’! Mine were thick, thick dark purple plastic under a Dorothy Hammill haircut and driving home with my new pair was the first time I saw “over a million sold” on the McDonald’s sign. She can sit with you at the “book club” table now!

By: Jaida

Jaida — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:24:39 +0000

Ugh, I am right here with ya. My son got his first pair of glasses about four months ago and I…well, I hate putting them on him. I feel the same as you do, that they just hide his *magic* somehow. I totally get that he looks adorable to most people, but I hate those damn glasses. He’s too small for anything but the standard-issue rubber, non-breakable frames. Sigh. I had his teachers put them on him at school but will confess I did not make him wear them at home.

I recently noticed that his eyes were going wonkier than usual so had to kick my own ass and accept that I am failing as his mom if I don’t make him wear them because of my own hang-ups. So, on they go. I guess at least he’s unlikely to ever pick Barbie…;)

By: Cathy B.

Cathy B. — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:39:13 +0000

I think she looks like any other adorable little girl! Sophie will be beautiful no matter what glasses she wears. That smile combined with being able to see will ensure it.

By: stacey

stacey — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:45:56 +0000

and yet my first reaction at that picture was, wow, those glasses hide the Down Syndrome.

By: Kittymama

Kittymama — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:15:28 +0000

I also love the way she’s looking RIGHT AT me in this photo. It really feels different and I hope she enjoys the improvement.

By: starrlife

starrlife — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:09:32 +0000

Awww… Kayli has glasses now . My husband took it hard but I love it! Neither of us ever wore glasses and I need them now but hate needing them (always getting lost or not there when I need them to read) and we didn’t know what was needed to take care of them. We went thru two sets of cheapo glasses via insurance – ugly, heavy and didn’t fit right. We got the spec for us brand finally at an optometrist who carried them and they fit great, many cute frames but within a month they were scratched to hell! Thank god for warranteed lens! But now she is great with them, has one place to put them when off and is getting used to them. Washed every morning. I think she is cute but it took a week or so for me to adjust. Not related to DS.at all. just my kid.

By: Conni

Conni — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:38:52 +0000

My first glasses were age 5… a few years later I remember picking a pair of crazy rhinestone cat-eye glasses to my mother’s dismay and half-way home from the store my mom turned the car around and canceled the order and I got regular glasses… which I soon broke and had taped together in the middle.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:57:29 +0000

You know, when I first saw the pic of Sophie in her glasses, it was the first time I didn’t see her as a little girl with Downs but as a little girl really becoming her own. Seriously, that haircut and top and glasses and smile. You can see a confidence of a young person really feel9ing great about who they are. I see it in my kids too, but it’s the first time I think I’ve seen it in Sophie without her trying to be “Sophie”. It’s just her…happily.

Of course, being a fellow glasses wearer, I think they always make people look better.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:43:38 +0000

What a sweet smile.

By: Kittymama

Kittymama — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:36:36 +0000

I got my first glasses when I was 7 (and probably should have had them the year before, if not sooner). So to me, Sophie looks like a little kid with glasses. The first thing I think when I see any little kid with glasses? “That kid probably has terrible eyesight. I’m glad it’s been diagnosed and is being treated now instead of later when he or she will have missed so much.”