When did you get glasses?
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Three years ago, my eyes have gotten worse, but lenses and exams are expensive around here. It's better than it used to be, though.
I got mine around fourth or fifth grade, so that adds up to between 6 and 8 years I think.
So yeah, my vision was slowly going out, I got glasses, end of story I guess. For the longest time, my family and extended family would never stop bugging me about how video games were sending my vision down the drain and how my lenses would become ridiculously thick. Recently, I finally got my parents to leave me alone about it but my uncles and aunts seemed to have missed the memo.
Now that I think about it, my youngest brother had to start wearing glasses around second or third grade and I'm pretty sure his natural vision is worse than mine already. He may or may not count though, because he isn't as naturally healthy as I am.
A lot of family in my generation wears contacts at this point (I really don't feel like changing out of glasses). A lot of the older generation, my parents included, wears glasses for various reasons, just not all day like I do (I got tired of taking them off and putting them on again as needed and didn't like carrying my glasses case everywhere). I've often relayed the idea that it may be a genetic issue and they should really quit picking on me for it, but to no avail. A lot of my friends who I'm pretty sure don't game as much as I do admit to having ridiculously strong prescriptions. Any chance my family was feeding me medical myths for years on end?
So yeah, my vision was slowly going out, I got glasses, end of story I guess. For the longest time, my family and extended family would never stop bugging me about how video games were sending my vision down the drain and how my lenses would become ridiculously thick. Recently, I finally got my parents to leave me alone about it but my uncles and aunts seemed to have missed the memo.
Now that I think about it, my youngest brother had to start wearing glasses around second or third grade and I'm pretty sure his natural vision is worse than mine already. He may or may not count though, because he isn't as naturally healthy as I am.
A lot of family in my generation wears contacts at this point (I really don't feel like changing out of glasses). A lot of the older generation, my parents included, wears glasses for various reasons, just not all day like I do (I got tired of taking them off and putting them on again as needed and didn't like carrying my glasses case everywhere). I've often relayed the idea that it may be a genetic issue and they should really quit picking on me for it, but to no avail. A lot of my friends who I'm pretty sure don't game as much as I do admit to having ridiculously strong prescriptions. Any chance my family was feeding me medical myths for years on end?
I was 9 (11 years ago.) My vision was slowly degrading (not helped from a camping trip where I got jabbed in the right eye with a smoldering stick.) My teacher thought I was being a smartass when I said I could read her 12 pt. font on the chalkboard from the back of the room, so she moved me right up against the board. that when when I got my first pair of glasses. They looked like something out of Army Basic Training.
Also, that was when I got my first teacher fired.
Also, that was when I got my first teacher fired.
Got them when was eight (I'm 34 now). Just went to the eye doctor today and found out I need a second pair. That's right, not four eyes, SIX EYES!
DON't BE SILLY: I will NOT be wearing both pairs at the same time, it's just that I need one for regular day to day/ distance stuff and the new pair for reading.
The good news? If these work, it will be the first time in over two years that I will be able to read print on paper without pain and suffering! I can have BOOKS back B)
Wish me luck! I love my iPad and everything, but I miss books, comic books, reading the mail, food label, newspapers, magazines and all other stupid stuff that we read every day and take for granted!
DON't BE SILLY: I will NOT be wearing both pairs at the same time, it's just that I need one for regular day to day/ distance stuff and the new pair for reading.
The good news? If these work, it will be the first time in over two years that I will be able to read print on paper without pain and suffering! I can have BOOKS back B)
Wish me luck! I love my iPad and everything, but I miss books, comic books, reading the mail, food label, newspapers, magazines and all other stupid stuff that we read every day and take for granted!
I used to be kind of a slacker in school. In ninth grade, messing with a friend in the back of class, I made him give me his glasses, and I figured out that what I had written off as the teacher writing too lightly with chalk was actually my shite eyes. It was too late to break the habit I'd already established; teacher starts writing, I start daydreaming.
I got mine in 7th grade when I noticed I had to squint at the whiteboard all the time. I got contacts as well.
I inherited my crappy vision from my mother, who is going more blind in her left eye then her right. Hooray for lets see what happens to me...
I inherited my crappy vision from my mother, who is going more blind in her left eye then her right. Hooray for lets see what happens to me...
Don't have any yet, but things in the distance are getting progressively fuzzier, so I'm going in for an exam in a week or two.
I got mine about 5 months ago. Originally I wasn't going to get glasses because I lived in a city and my only problem was that I am mildly short-sighted. Then I moved to the middle of nowhere and I need to drive everywhere. (You don't need to see acutely in a city, you just need to be able to see if a car's coming)
Around 14 years ago, when I was six. I kept bumping into doorposts and had constant headaches, so my parents took me to an optician. I still can't believe I picked the pair I had back then. Was that really the least round/dorky pair around?!
Ah well, I've moved up to stylish models now. I can't imagine myself without glasses, I look damn good with them if I may say so myself.
Ah well, I've moved up to stylish models now. I can't imagine myself without glasses, I look damn good with them if I may say so myself.
The classic tale of screen-staring geek gone optically wrong.
Needed glasses since I was 21 (last year) to see anything more than a metre and a half away.
On the plus side, people say I look good in glasses
Needed glasses since I was 21 (last year) to see anything more than a metre and a half away.
On the plus side, people say I look good in glasses
I got them when I was 15, at first it was because I couldn't see boards in classes, but my eyes kept getting worse every year, and currently I'm 19. I wear them when I do everything except computers.
My right eye is worse then my left eye; one year they even out, and another year they don't. According to my doctor, they should stabilize in a few years.
I don't wear contact lenses because I have a reasonable phobia of them, and lasik surgery is too expensive for me, especially since I will be going to college.
My glasses are like the 3d ones because I have big eyes, and long eyelashes that hit the glass every time I blink.
Everybody in my immediate, and distant family has perfect vision, except for my great grandmother who legend tells that she cried herself blind after the death of her daughter. she did live to be 108 years old though.
My right eye is worse then my left eye; one year they even out, and another year they don't. According to my doctor, they should stabilize in a few years.
I don't wear contact lenses because I have a reasonable phobia of them, and lasik surgery is too expensive for me, especially since I will be going to college.
My glasses are like the 3d ones because I have big eyes, and long eyelashes that hit the glass every time I blink.
Everybody in my immediate, and distant family has perfect vision, except for my great grandmother who legend tells that she cried herself blind after the death of her daughter. she did live to be 108 years old though.