I suppose I wore them, but I don’t remember. He assessed my walk, took some measurements, prescribed orthotics. When I was eight or nine, my parents took me to an orthopedist.
Liopothes, or “people with smooth feet,” wrote Greek physician Galen, who was the first to describe flat feet in the medical literature. What I thought was familial is, in the eyes of some, tribal.
I have, according to a dubious assemblage of pundits, propagandists, and pseudoscientists, Jewish feet.