Jul
8th
2017
Me Too, Twilight · 4:54pm Jul 8th, 2017
"Holy fuck Twilight, how are you so blind?"
"Well...when you spend most of your youth in a dark basement staring at multiple computer screens, you tend to become a bit...myopic."
Through out grade school I always had the one friend who would "try" on my glasses and then proceeded to tell me how blind I was as I was squinting at them in annoyance. My response was always, "Yes, obviously, now can I please have my glasses back, I'd like to see again."
Fellow glasses wearers, has this ever happened to you? Share your stories in the comments! And happy Saturday!
Cassandra doesn't wear glasses because she has immaculate 20/10 vision, but she found this amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPVZ4oLC8B0
My best "Glasses Story" would be when I was about 10. I was sitting on the dock around Silver Lake fishing and one of my friends came up behind me and slapped me on the back to startle me. My glasses flew off my face and into the lake. We never found them.
Sometimes to show just how blind I am, I will read something 5 feet in front of me then take off my glasses & tell them just how blurry it is. I'm near-sighted as f***.
I have an average of minus 8.5 dioptre. For those who don't know how much blind I am, this mean I can't see clear pass about 2 inches away from the tip of my nose.
Though my case is more due to genetics, with my father having an average of minus 14 dioptre, rather than staring too much a screen in poor lighting
With me I'm...near sided?
So I can't see things far away.
So when I give people my glasses they usually don't get why I need glasses.
The 'worst thing some one said about my glasses it that it actually helped them see better.
I am near sighted, and I had a friend who also wore glasses, and he said he was far sighted, so I decided we should swap and I remember him going : "Holy fucking shit, it's like looking through chlorine. How about mine?"
To which I responded by taking them off, look at the lenses, NOTICING HOW THICK IT WAS and said
"Fuck, I bet my DAD couldn't see though these." (He is legally blind without his glasses)
Well mine is more due to a birth defect and was discovered late to be recovered through correction by glasses. My left eye is legally blind with or without glasses, and it's called "Lazy Eye". I only use my right eye so I can see properly.
Sometimes I swap glasses with my friends. But yes, they tell me I need a stronger prescription.