Unless there was an injury affecting their vision, children assume they see the same way everyone else sees and they have no reason to think otherwise. They often have a hard time articulating their symptoms until they have it tested and a developmental optometrist verifies what they’re seeing. Which can be rattling to some parents.

Our school-aged patients have the most unique ways to describe symptoms. We’ve compiled a list of these descriptions as a reference for you, we recommend asking your child if they’ve experienced any of these!

• Words melting on page

• Words swimming

• Text is always bent down into the next line

• Words look like a QR code

• Letters are wiggling

• Double vision

• Parts of the page disappear 

• Tunnel vision

• Things appear 2-dimensional 

• Letters vibrate

• Words float