When I was around 12 years old, I started to lose my far-sighted vision, particularly in my right eye. My parents dutifully took me to the optometrist, who when I asked why I now needed glasses, he mentioned something about my eyes being defective. I could not understand the logic as to how a defect not present at birth could suddenly develop.

I explained to him, that I was particularly having difficulty in Malay class, so much so that I had to sit in the front row to see what the teacher was saying. It was also the time of Operation Lalang in Malaysia, where my rights were taken away, and I became scared of saying or doing the wrong thing, in case the government locked me up for an indeterminate amount of time. Before then, I lived a multicultural life, friends with people of all races. I had joined a multicultural choir Suara Mas, where we sang songs in all the languages of Malaysia.

In one fell swoop the government in the guise of 'affirmative action', locked up all the opposition leaders of Parliament, activists, journalists and religious leaders. When the local news started reporting the names of those that were locked up without trial, their license was revoked. From then on, journalism in Malaysia has been pretty much a sham, and an attempt to curry favour with the ingrained racist political system.

Now in my right eye, I am almost legally blind and I always knew that it was related to the events in Malaysia. From then on I have searched for a different explanation than given by my optometrists as to the lost of my eyesight. It did not make sense that reading too close or in a bad light could make my eyesight worse if it is supposed to be a genetic defect.

I had researched William Bates, reading his books in the library. However I found the techniques to be difficult to maintain, and not very effective, though the logic that wearing spectacles trains your eyes to become lazy made sense to me.

From then on I heard about orthokerathology and clinical trials in U of M. They had not yet reached the mainstream in North America, until a few years ago with FDA approval. However, they have been practiced for many years in places like Hong Kong.

So when it was finally given FDA approval, off I went to my local optometrist Art Face that is capable of orthokeratology and I have been seeing clearly during the day with no glasses and no contact lenses... Ah freedom at last.

However, one has to wear the lenses at night, which can be a bother sometimes, hmm... let me google on Dr. Kaplan that a classmate had mentioned something about. Here it is , now I am a member of Eyecode, we'll see what happens with this.

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