Speccy problems

"If spectacles are worn, it is never quite the same as having a normal eye. Often the child has already suffered from his inadequacy before the glasses are prescribed, and he may well feel still more of an outsider when forced to wear these clumsy and fragile crutches. Throughout life he knows he is different. And even those who escape the need for spectacles till the usual reading difficulties of middle age, face a potential psychological trauma with this first stigma of their gradual bodily decay." - Patrick Trevor-Roper, The World Through Blunted Sight