Poll of the Day > Do you wear Glasses?

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eh ?

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Glasses but only when driving or watching tv / gaming

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Yes, and my eyesight is very poor - I'm on the verge of legal blindness since I'm 20/200 ish without my glasses (can only see clearly up to about 4 inches) and am not 20/20 with them

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Yeah. I normally do. Though, I havent had any for a while. I need to go get checked and get some glasses and contacts. I do want to get LASIK though. I wished the Air Force would have paid for it. But my eyes werent apparently bad enough
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Yes, and I've reached the point in my life where bifocals are starting to become an option. Though I'm going to try and avoid pulling the trigger on that one as long as possible.
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I wear my sunglasses at night

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I wear my sunglasses at night

Do they help you keep track of visions in your mind?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjEAaLOAg0
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Do they help you keep track of visions in your mind?

Yeah and they also make me look like a younger Jack Nicholson

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I've been wearing them since elementary school. Basically wear them from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed, aside from when i'm showering or something.

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I need glasses to see anything at a distance, but I have to take them off to see things up close.

My near vision is super strong, I can read microprint that most people can barely even see. But at a distance I'm blind as a bat.

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Yes. Dont feel like bothering with contacts, though.

No

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I'm near-sighted and wear glasses

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Perfect vision for now. I'm sure that'll change in the next decade or two and I'll slowly sink into reading glasses.

hockey7318 posted...

Perfect vision for now.

Just rubbing it in...
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God damn right I'm rubbing it in! What's the point of seeing perfectly if I can't tell people with poor vision how amazing it is to not have to see an eye doctor or use glasses/contacts?

It's like why I run. What would the point be if I didn't strip my shirt off any chance I could?

No, and oddly enough I am the only one in my family like that. Everyone else needs glasses/contacts. My dad is at the point where he is at like a -25.00, and even that can't get him good enough eyesight to drive at night. He is supposed to get cataract surgery to get him back to decent levels, but it keeps getting put off due to covid.

I'll probably need reading glasses in 5-10 years, not sure though. Haven't noticed any problems yet.

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Lokarin posted...

Yes, and my eyesight is very poor - I'm on the verge of legal blindness since I'm 20/200 ish without my glasses (can only see clearly up to about 4 inches) and am not 20/20 with them

Same. I have profound myopia and my vision is so bad now that surgery is a serious consideration.

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I have like 4 pairs of glasses but I don't like how people look in glasses so I only wear them when I want some variety. My vision is passable without them

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Reading glasses for about a year or so, but only on things with really small type, like most paperback books.

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First got glasses at age 7. First got contacts at age 13. Finally got LASIK at age 25. Age 29 today and no regrets!

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Yes, always.

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No. I maybe should due to some case of amblyopia but whatever.

Edit:
I still see well though save for at night.

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Contacts are uncomfortable and hella expensive. And they actually aren't as sanitary as people think. They can really raise your chances of getting eye-infections. If you slip up even once with your hygiene then they can cause a lot of issues. Plus, you can forget you're wearing them.

I honestly don't get why anyone prefers them, it just seems so much worse than glasses to me, but to each their own...

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Flappers posted...

I honestly don't get why anyone prefers them, it just seems so much worse than glasses to me, but to each their own...

I like them for many reasons. Like not having to wear them on my face where I will feel them. And I can lay on my side and still see. And wear my sunglasses. Or 3D glasses (though I dont see 3D stuff as much anymore). Also, better peripheral vision, IIRC And they arent constantly sliding down my face
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I see fine without them. Mostly wear glasses because I think they look good on me.

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No, I'm cursed with excellent vision, along with excellent everything else. I always thought glasses looked kinda neat, but I'm obviously better off not needing them.

Flappers posted...

Contacts are uncomfortable and hella expensive. And they actually aren't as sanitary as people think. They can really raise your chances of getting eye-infections. If you slip up even once with your hygiene then they can cause a lot of issues. Plus, you can forget you're wearing them.

I honestly don't get why anyone prefers them, it just seems so much worse than glasses to me, but to each their own...

People want to look as healthy as possible. There's a genetic attraction there, probably, since most people and animals are biologically driven to seek out healthier-looking mates so they can have healthy offspring, even if those elements don't necessarily benefit humans as much as they did in the past because society is much more complicated than that.

Of course, then you get people like Horned who talk about being turned on by women are deaf, etc, which I'm not sure if his very overt interest (we're talking multiple topics) was a fetish thing or the fact that he feels he needs to power over women. Either way, that was some creepy shit. I don't know if he still does shit like that, because I finally just blocked he really creeped me out at times (which I would have rather not done, because he sometimes had interesting topics).

EDIT: Just checked, and he was only on my ignore list. I moved him to the block list as a courtesy, since otherwise he may have been responding to me not knowing I can't see it.

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No glasses for me or my brother. My parents didn't need them until their 50s so that's probably a good sign for us

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Zeus posted...

People want to look as healthy as possible. There's a genetic attraction there, probably, since most people and animals are biologically driven to seek out healthier-looking mates so they can have healthy offspring, even if those elements don't necessarily benefit humans as much as they did in the past because society is much more complicated than that.

Some people like glasses, as well. It may be because glasses seem like a sign of being smart, even though we know in reality, glasses dont actually measure that
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Zeus posted...

People want to look as healthy as possible. There's a genetic attraction there, probably, since most people and animals are biologically driven to seek out healthier-looking mates so they can have healthy offspring, even if those elements don't necessarily benefit humans as much as they did in the past because society is much more complicated than that.

Honestly, I can't believe that for a second.
You know how many genetic abnormalities and stuff are out there because we breed the way we do? If we actually scrutinized our mates based off of those factors then there wouldn't even BE that many poor-sighted people to begin with. Among other things.

Humans aren't attracted to others of our kind based on health and survivability. And if you want to get really technical then we're not even in an environment where health matters like it otherwise would, since we are protected by society and have availability to medicine and other corrective treatments.

Saying humans pick their spouses based on "genetic attraction" is ridiculous. When's the last time you heard somebody say "Yeah, I like that guy but I'm not going to be with him because he is lactose-intolerant and I don't want that trait passed down to my kids"?
Also, "I have poor eyesight but I don't want to look inferior so I'll pick contact lenses instead because I don't want potential mates to be biologically driven away from me."
>_>

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Neither.. but I can slowly feel my eyes going

The only time I'm not looking at a screen is when I'm asleep ._.

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Zeus talking about health is hilarious. Seeing as how he always seems offended whenever Clench brings up a health issue in society. Not long ago he was trying to convince us (and himself) that guys who weigh 200+ but are short is healthy.

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Glasses on all the time aside from sleeping, showering, and amusement park rides.

-6.75 in one eye, -7.00 in the other. Quite nearsighted.

MeteoricBurst posted...

Zeus talking about health is hilarious. Seeing as how he always seems offended whenever Clench brings up a health issue in society. Not long ago he was trying to convince us (and himself) that guys who weigh 200+ but are short is healthy.

Woah. Did this actually happen??

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Yeah, got them earlier this year. Was diagnosed with mild astigmatism back in January. They told me I don't actually need them, but I wear them to work anyway since they help me read.

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I've worn glasses since I was 9 - I'm near-sighted. My parent suspected as far back as when I was 5 that there was something wrong with my vision - apparently I couldn't see an airplane high up in the sky, but could easily see the Goodyear blimp flying overhead.

I'm not too keen on wearing contacts - I'd probably gouge my eyes out of their sockets before I ever get one contact lens in right.

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