The latter part of this is true -- it had become a personal part of my identity but in a negative way. Starting from when I was five I had started squinting at the chalkboard, not being able to read properly, from which I now have glasses for the rest of my life. Furthermore, not two years later, my teeth had been completely disorderly, and that’s where braces come in to save the day. Now as an Indian child with thick glasses and multi-colored braces, I struggled to fit in and find my
The latter part of this is true -- it had become a personal part of my identity but in a negative way. Starting from when I was five I had started squinting at the chalkboard, not being able to read properly, from which I now have glasses for the rest of my life. Furthermore, not two years later, my teeth had been completely disorderly, and that’s where braces come in to save the day. Now as an Indian child with thick glasses and multi-colored braces, I struggled to fit in and find my