just started with baclofen, a bit desperate
there’s this story about a little boy who's parents told him to wear heavy black shades through which he could see nothing, only a faint glimmering of the sun on days when it was very strong. they told him "you are blind and you can never take off those glasses or it'll be horrible for you and you'll also scare all the people around you".
at first the boy felt sad about this, being blind, and separated from all the seeing people. but he praised himself for having such caring parents, that protected him and the people around him from this horror, and he finally settled into his life as a blind boy, as well as he could.
when he was a little older, he met a girl from the same village and they became friends. they took walks together through the fields surrounding the village.
she was curious about this blindness of his.
if he'd always worn these glasses, how could he know for sure that he was in fact blind? she aked him that, and he cried out, "this is what i am! there's no escaping it, and i KNOW if i ever take off the glasses it'll be horrible for me, and also the people around me!".
the girl kept mentioning it now and then, not in a stringent way, but very sweet and concerned about the boys feelings.
she said "i can't imagine how it could be horrible for me when you take off your glasses.. what could be so horrible about that? there are no snakes emerging from your eyes or anything, are there?" no, there weren't. at night in bed the boy always put off his glasses, 'cause it was safe in his bedroom. his parents had shut out all light coming into that room and of course removed all light switches and so on, to prevent him from having a horrible experience. no snakes or anything else had ever emerged from his eyes.
finally she asked him, gently but firmly, why don't you try it now? if anything horrible happens, you can immediately put the shades back on, and you'll know and we'll be fine.
so he did. it was a beautiful day, the sun was shining wildly over the fields.
he took off his glasses and looked up into the sun, and was blinded by the light (of course not really blinded, just blinded as any seeing person would be when they look into the sun, especially after years and years of waring these impermeable shades)
i cried out "you see!!! I AM BLIND!!!!" and immediately put back on the glasses, ran home to his parents, told them everything. they forbade him to ever see this bad girl again. they would protect him forever.
there’s this story about a little boy who's parents told him to wear heavy black shades through which he could see nothing, only a faint glimmering of the sun on days when it was very strong. they told him "you are blind and you can never take off those glasses or it'll be horrible for you and you'll also scare all the people around you".
at first the boy felt sad about this, being blind, and separated from all the seeing people. but he praised himself for having such caring parents, that protected him and the people around him from this horror, and he finally settled into his life as a blind boy, as well as he could.
when he was a little older, he met a girl from the same village and they became friends. they took walks together through the fields surrounding the village.
she was curious about this blindness of his.
if he'd always worn these glasses, how could he know for sure that he was in fact blind? she aked him that, and he cried out, "this is what i am! there's no escaping it, and i KNOW if i ever take off the glasses it'll be horrible for me, and also the people around me!".
the girl kept mentioning it now and then, not in a stringent way, but very sweet and concerned about the boys feelings.
she said "i can't imagine how it could be horrible for me when you take off your glasses.. what could be so horrible about that? there are no snakes emerging from your eyes or anything, are there?" no, there weren't. at night in bed the boy always put off his glasses, 'cause it was safe in his bedroom. his parents had shut out all light coming into that room and of course removed all light switches and so on, to prevent him from having a horrible experience. no snakes or anything else had ever emerged from his eyes.
finally she asked him, gently but firmly, why don't you try it now? if anything horrible happens, you can immediately put the shades back on, and you'll know and we'll be fine.
so he did. it was a beautiful day, the sun was shining wildly over the fields.
he took off his glasses and looked up into the sun, and was blinded by the light (of course not really blinded, just blinded as any seeing person would be when they look into the sun, especially after years and years of waring these impermeable shades)
i cried out "you see!!! I AM BLIND!!!!" and immediately put back on the glasses, ran home to his parents, told them everything. they forbade him to ever see this bad girl again. they would protect him forever.
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