Personal Narrative: My First Pair Of Glasses

For as long as I could remember I was bullied for wearing glasses. For the past 10 years, I was always wearing glasses. Without them, I was almost legally blind far away. Being that I wore glasses students stereotyped me as a nerd and called me “four eyes.” This stereotype affected me badly from my middle school to high school years.

I remember the day I got my first pair of glasses. It was the day after I failed the school's eye exam. My first pair of glasses were purple and bendable so they would not break. The stereotyping started shortly after getting my first pair. Since we were only in the third grade and our brains were not fully developed yet so the students called me “four eyes.” This ended up making me not want to wear my glasses at school, which led to me getting poor grades in school.

Getting bullied by my peers during elementary school made me feel very sad.

But in my head, I knew I could do something to stop the bullying. I stopped wearing my glasses. It was not until seventh grade that I was that I was forced to wear my glasses. That I was forced to wear my glasses. It was the annual eye exam for the school and I failed again. I tried to get contacts, but with my allergies they did not work. So here I was back wearing glasses and being bullied and stereotyped. As I was getting older the stereotypes got worse students started calling me a nerd and I was always got straight A’s. When in fact, it was the exact opposite. I struggled in school and it was hard for me to get good grades because I could not see the board so I did not understand what I was

learning.
Usually, with stereotypes or bullies, people tend to want to prove the stereotype or bully wrong. But in my case, I was told I was a nerd and I did not like that. It was very far from what who I was as a person. To prove them wrong I tried to get worse grades than I already had and be a rebel student. In the end, it only hurt me to keep acting that way. So instead of thinking of the bullies and stereotypes I wore my glasses anyway. I could see better and I could focus more on what the teacher was saying. My grades gradually increased and I became proud of my glasses.
Caring about what people thought about me almost ruined my future. It made my grades decrease and had me not caring about school. It was not until junior year that I took pride in my hard work that did not come from just wearing my glasses. Now I tend not to care what students think about me and my glasses. Not caring makes focusing on school and homework a lot easier and has made me a better student.