Shelly, a visually impaired mother of two, was having lunch with her two daughters. At the time, the younger one, Naomi, was seven, and the older one, Leah, was nine.
Naomi, the younger daughter, was complaining about one of her friends, saying how hard it was to trust her. “She makes promises but struggles to keep them.”
Shelly, their mother, explained that none of us are perfect, and everyone has things they find difficult. “We can try to see the good in others,” she said.
Naomi widened her eyes in surprise, stared at her mother, and said, “But Mom, you’re perfect! You don’t have any problems!”
Leah, the older sister, burst into hysterical laughter. “Naomi, what’s wrong with you? Did you forget that Mom is visually impaired?”
Naomi, as if realizing it for the first time, responded, “Oh, right… I forgot.”
When Shelly shared this story with me, she couldn’t stop laughing, “It turns out that children sometimes see reality in a completely different way…”.