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Gabe1

Gabe1

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StarWarsGirl said:
His vision has gotten really bad. He cannot see without a lot of light, and he hates having to use his phone as a flashlight. At home, he walks into a room and turns every light on. It drives me crazy. My eyes don't want all that artificial light; it's one way to set off a migraine. I like lamps on their lowest setting and natural light during the day. Not every single light turned on as bright as possible.

He's also stubborn. He needed glasses when I was in middle school, but refused for the longest time. He wears them now, but he really needs to see the eye doctor to get his vision thoroughly tested. And of course he won't because he insists that he can see just fine. My mom and I get worried about him, though, because clearly, his distance vision is impacted as well. We've noticed that he doesn't read street signs. Last time we were in Hawaii, my mom would say "Turn on A street" and the sign would be there, and he'd yell "Where?" It made us very concerned. Then when he was flying back to WDW after going home mid trip for his father's funeral, he went to an Arby's when he meant to go to the McDonald's in the airport. Considering that everyone else in his family has vision issues, including his children (we're both slightly farsighted, and my brother had vision therapy because he had a tracking problem) I don't know why he thinks he's immune. His sister has had eye surgeries, his brother is legally blind in one eye, and both of them are younger. I think for a while it was a point of pride that he could see perfectly. Now it's pure stubbornness.

But yes, he avoids dark restaurants if possible. Blue Bayou at Disneyland is tough for him, but the food is so good there that he toughs it out. He can't even see in Le Cellier anymore. But have any light on whatsoever in the hotel room, and it "keeps him awake". Even though he was snoring before waking up and insisting that the light is keeping him up.:rolleyes:
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Push might come to shove when he has to pass a vision test for his drivers licence needs to be renewed. In Illinois he can actually bypass that if he has a perfect driving record, then you just mail the state $40 and then send you a new one.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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@StarWarsGirl for you! :happy:
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Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
ajrwdwgirl said:
I was an early reader too. But my mom worked with me. I had so many bad ear infections she was afraid I was going to end up deaf so she wanted me to be an excellent reader to help with communication., plus she loved to read and wanted to share that with me. My older sister wasn't/isn't much into books. I remember reading the Sunday comic strips to my dad when I was about 3-4. I wasn't reading full chapter books by kindergarten, I was more into the Bernstein Bears. However, I stayed grade levels ahead throughout school in reading. Math however is a different story.:oops:;)
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Wow! Did your hearing survive. My DD use to love to read for enjoyment, she said middle school and high school killed that for her. She had less assigned reading in college than she did in HS and MS. I'm sure she will find the love again if her life ever slows down. But her true love has always been numbers and more the statistics of numbers than mathematics. It was never difficult for her, her brain seems to just glance and grasp. She didn't get that gene pool from me.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Songbird76 said:
Well, in the end, DD just learned it by herself. She got into first grade and I heard her reading to her brother, looked at the book and it had some huge words...it was a Disney's Cars book on CD. So you had the CD play and followed along in the book....only she wasn't using the CD and we had never listened to it, so it wasn't something she learned from listening to it over and over...she was really reading it. So I took the book in to show her teacher..it was right at the beginning of the school year. So her teacher looked at it, called her over, opened it to a random page and asked her to read it. She did, so the teacher put her into the advanced reading book...she was the only one, which was kind of sad because she had to go sit in the hall for reading and kids from other classes would walk by and ask her what she did because the hall is where kids were sent if they were misbehaving. But she actually LIKED sitting in the hall because it was quiet. So she taught herself to read, but the school where she went to kindergarten didn't help her.
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That is impressive! I love stories like that, flushes all the theories of why can't do this or that until age....whatever.

But I hate stuff like put the kid in the hall. Don't like it for discipline and hate it for a make shift learning environment.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Gabe1 said:
Wow! Did your hearing survive. My DD use to love to read for enjoyment, she said middle school and high school killed that for her. She had less assigned reading in college than she did in HS and MS. I'm sure she will find the love again if her life ever slows down. But her true love has always been numbers and more the statistics of numbers than mathematics. It was never difficult for her, her brain seems to just glance and grasp. She didn't get that gene pool from me.
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Yeah, my hearing turned out just fine. My last ear infection as a kid was probably in 1st grade. They wanted to do tubes in my ears but my Mom said no, she wasn't convinced it would help at all. And really once I was in the lower elementary grades, the ear infections just stopped. I did have an ear infection as an adult, but that was about 12 years ago. The kids sometimes put those ultra sonic ring tones on their phones at school because they think their old geezer teachers can't hear them go off, but I am still able to hear the tone. The kids are amazed I can hear it.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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figmentfan423 said:
Welcome home.
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Great trip overall. Did most things that were planned and ate most things that were planned.:D Disappointed with the food at Raglan Road but for the tomato soup and Garden Grill. And the price of Garden Grill was :jawdrop:. I did it mainly for the character interaction and honestly that was awesome, but we don't eat a lot unlike the @figmentfan423, so with 2 kids that are considered adults and paying $45 each it was ridiculous. Yes, I knew that going in so I have myself to blame. At least we got a Passholder discount. But needless to say we won't be doing that one again. Our counter service meals were actually really good and the most we paid was maybe $60 at one. Most were in the upper $40/ lower $50 range for lunch or dinner. For 6 that was fantastic. If not for the Garden Grill meal I think we spent just $1000 on food because we had $1000 in gift cards and wiped out the last one with some extra to pay at GG. It was our last dinner so not too bad. I will start a trip report probably next week once my homeschool evaluation is done this week and some other obligations are done this week. Back to the daily grind.:eek::arghh::cry:
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

Premium Member
MySmallWorldof4 said:
Great trip overall. Did most things that were planned and ate most things that were planned.:D Disappointed with the food at Raglan Road but for the tomato soup and Garden Grill. And the price of Garden Grill was :jawdrop:. I did it mainly for the character interaction and honestly that was awesome, but we don't eat a lot unlike the @figmentfan423, so with 2 kids that are considered adults and paying $45 each it was ridiculous. Yes, I knew that going in so I have myself to blame. At least we got a Passholder discount. But needless to say we won't be doing that one again. Our counter service meals were actually really good and the most we paid was maybe $60 at one. Most were in the upper $40/ lower $50 range for lunch or dinner. For 6 that was fantastic. If not for the Garden Grill meal I think we spent just $1000 on food because we had $1000 in gift cards and wiped out the last one with some extra to pay at GG. It was our last dinner so not too bad. I will start a trip report probably next week once my homeschool evaluation is done this week and some other obligations are done this week. Back to the daily grind.:eek::arghh::cry:
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I'm very happy to hear that you and your family arrived home safely. Now you can decompress and daydream about all the fun you had. Looking forward to hearing about more! :happy:
 

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