My point was more that I had a similar sensation with an image that wasn’t really there, and I assure you that did nothing to shelter me from bullies.

I certainly appreciate your vote of confidence in myself. I’ve always been myself, more or less. I struggled for a while trying to be many people to fulfil different expectations of me, and in the end it took a fair bit of work to be myself again. I’m far more comfortable in my own skin being myself as a result, though.

In any case, if you look at it through her theory, this whole lack of glasses thing could have helped people see you for you… and it could have potentially given you shelter to a degree from bullies and being the butt of all jokes (or at least reduced the amount of crap you were given), which in turn made you a lot more comfortable with being yourself around others.

I know that from my point of view, one of the best things I like about you is that you are a self-admitted geek and proudly announce and love that fact… but that’s still only but a fraction of your entirety. You are simply yourself and you don’t hide that fact from public view. How much of that is to be attributed to your lack of glasses or your physical appearance growing up is anybody’s guess, though I myself tend to believe that looks always have and always will play a huge impact in how a person grows mentally and emotionally… to a far bigger extent in fact than most people would even begin to consider.