My parents didn't get me glasses until I was eight years old. I thought blurry was normal. They thought I was dyslexic because I was routinely failing spelling

My parents didn't get me glasses until I was eight years old. I thought blurry was normal. They thought I was dyslexic because I was routinely failing spelling tests. It wasn't that I was failing them, it's that I relied on spelling phonetically, because when they wrote the words on the blackboard during practice time, I couldn't see them, even at the front of the class, so I just made up my own spellings as the teacher called them out. When I finally got glasses (massive, horrible tortoiseshell things with huge lenses provided (only in part) by the NHS, I finally realised things like: Trees have leaves! all the way up, not just on the ground, and that teachers often had a pained look on their faces.