Difficulties with the thought about getting glasses

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I was told last week that I'll need glasses and I also ordered them, but they are still not there, but will come the next few days.

Even though I know that they'll help, I still have difficulties with that thought. First of all, I'll need to wear them ALL the time, because mainly just one eye has bad vision (23% vision, short sighted and astigmatism) and didn't participated by seeing anymore, so that I lost to some degree being able to see in 3D where you need both eyes. I also know that I'll probably have to wear them for the rest of my live and that'll change my live. And third of all from all my relatives I can think of, I'm the only one under the age of 60 needing glasses and the only one being short sighted. Even though I know having glasses is very common, but I feel very strange with that.

I still hope that they'll help and everything, but I would rather not need them. Everyone tells me having glasses is totally normal and actually I know that, but I still feel totally strange with the thought.

Maybe it was everything a bit fast and I just have to get used to it, I dunno.

I must have that issue since maybe about 3 years and no one noticed, because one eye is in the norm (90% vision, what's still considered as norm). So I was able to read and everything. But I was suffering from headache, difficulties concentrating while doing visual tasks and so on. I was dx with ADHD for the last year, but this dx got removed last week and I found out that I'll need glasses instead.
So I probably have to stop with my medication I was given to be able to concentrate better. All this still feels strange, being told the one thing and suddenly the other, that I'll need glasses instead.
Suddenly symptoms who were considered as being psychological aren't anymore and no one noticed before, not even myself. So I dunno what to think about all that!?

They feel weird at first, but you will be amazed by how much easier it is to concentrate on something visually. Especially the headaches. You feel odd needing glasses at your age. I have needed bifocals since I was 13. I was the only person in the school (primary through secondary) who had bifocals. But as I loved to read, I appreciated it.

Expect to feel odd or even off balance for a few days after getting them as your eyes get adjusted to not straining.

Thank you, for the responses.

I was the last person in my immediate family to need glasses, made it into my mid 20s, when I began to realize I couldn't read billboards very clearly, or license plates on the cars ahead of me. I remember the first day I had them, I walked outside at sunset and was astounded to see craters on the Moon - I'd been seeing just a white disc in the night sky for so long, I forgot what it actually looked like. The change was so dramatic, I was happy to have them. Besides, they make you look smarter.

I remember when I was very early in elementary school wanting so badly to be able to wear glasses, but being told I didn't need them. By the age of 8 or 9, however, teachers started noticing that I had to move books up very closely up to my face to read, and indeed it turned out I did need them! My vision in my left eye has still been growing steadily worse every year, despite my age: It is now at -6.50 dioptres. My vision in my right eye, however, has stabilized at -5.00 dioptres.

When I recently went to an ophthalmologist for floaters and flashes, to rule out any possible problems with my retinas, the ophthalmologist said he could tell I was near-sighted just from looking at the proportions of my eye--they're bigger and longer than normal.

About contacts, I knew I'd not be able to keep up with maintaining them and stuff, so I've always stuck with eyeglasses.

That's where I was when I was 12-13 when I realised my worst fears were coming true and that I probably needed glasses, I learned to work with my slightly nearsighted vision and hide it since I was scared of standing out and getting bullied(I could see the blackboard from rows 1-2 not 3 for example) At 17 the gig was up and I got glasses as I almost failed the vision test at the drive test center however never wore them much because I was still in school and technically was still good enough to drive without, the lady at the drive test center kind of said so. I even put off getting my learners licence to avoid the vision test. I only started wearing them recently because my vision has got a lot worse in the last couple of years and the headaches and eyesores are unbearable. I feel fine wearing them now because up to half of a given random sample of 20-somethings wear glasses now so its nothing, bullies can't single you out for them when they or their friends wear them too. Its just a pain when it rains or when it is really sunny with clear lens although the suns pain is nothing like the eyestrain. Only three people commented on my glasses the first time they saw them on me.

I feel so stupid now for not giving in sooner and living in pain and missing out on so much, letting anxiety control my life. If only the teacher that noticed I did/could not copy notes from the 3rd row used her brain and contacted my parents. There is the laser surgery as an option too.

I shouldn't worry about it too much, you'll find you get used to them quickly. If, as ZenDen said, you find them sliding down, they can heat the temple arms and bend them so they fit better; that's what they did to mine. I've been wearing glasses since I was ten, and a period of that was with bifocals. I also tried contacts in the eighth grade but I didn't like them so I stopped wearing them. Trust me, it'll be nice to know what you've been missing of the world once you get them