Hi, hopefully someone sees this -- just finding this thread now.
Does anyone suffer from the feeling of "getting lost in the trees?" As in, seeing the trees, and no longer seeing the forest.
That's been my experience of correcting my astigmatism, and it's really stifling. I really relate to your description of anxiety as causing you to be frozen and thinking in your head too much. Because I've mostly never corrected my eyesight my life till now (29), seeing "the way 'everyone' sees" is like having a bad trip. I get frozen. Not to mention, my orientation of where I am in my body is totally skewed due to the astigmatism. So it's like I'm frozen in a body, uncomfortably, overwhelmed by detail, terrified to say or do anything because it feels unfamiliar and I don't want anyone to see me. When normally, I'm way flowier and okay with being a little weird / walk to my own drum.
I need them to drive technically. Otherwise I feel way better without them. I did however read an article about how astigmatism can cause some negative personality tendencies, so I became nervous. I want to be a good person! I just also want to not be "frozen in the details"...?
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