It was just the opposite. She was able to read by 4. That made the blackboard easily accessible. There was no obvious reason to harbor any suspicion that my perfect child had limited vision. Our eye test at school shows she's having difficulty seeing.
Denial is easy.
I mean who doesn't think that their child is a chip off the old block. That meant this child couldn't possibly have a sight problem. Neither her father, myself nor her siblings had less than perfect vision. There must be some mistake, I thought. It's so easy to see only what we want to see.