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Post by adamcoan on Nov 7, 2023 20:54:57 GMT
In my family, everyone, either living or dead, wears glasses. Except me. A d.n.a test confirmed I had not been adopted Now I am sixty. However, suddenly and unexpectedly, one needs 1.5 magnification reading glasses.
How is your eyesight ? Take my wife........ ( Insert joke) she is as blind as a bat.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 7, 2023 21:10:39 GMT
I started wearing 1.5x readers about three years ago, but my sister is the only one in our family who has to wear prescription glasses (it was thought that my mother's smoking while pregnant with her had something to do with that, but who knows...). Both my parents started wearing readers when they were about the same age as me. I don't mind 'em - I bought a few pairs online with aviator-style frames that don't look too horrible.
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Post by souphound on Nov 8, 2023 15:45:48 GMT
When I was a wee toddler, there was a "bump" affecting my left eye's retina. This was just at that time whenone develops the ability to see in 3D apparently. So I've never actually seen in 3D. Explains a bit why I was such a crappy hitter at baseball but a very decent golf ball smacker. The ball moves before impact in baseball and only after impact at golf. My theory.
So I was prescribed glasses as a toddler. Quite often, I used to neatly fold them and slide them under our neighbour's car's rear wheels in his driveway.
They stopped getting me new glasses rather quickly as I was being impossible.
But now, I have been wearing glasses morning to night for the last 5 or so years and for reading only for the 10 years prior to that. I've blamed this deterioration on the fact that I have been staring at a computer screen, for school, work and fun, since 1980 solid. My optometrist disagrees. She thinks I'm just getting old. What does she know?!
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Post by tory on Nov 8, 2023 16:00:20 GMT
I wear contact lenses. At some point I'm going back to glasses.
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Post by DarknessFish on Nov 8, 2023 16:48:31 GMT
I wear contact lenses, have done since I was a kid. I do wear specs, too, but they've always annoyed the crap out of me after more than a few hours. Part of having a big head, I think, that pressure behind my ears gets on my nerves. My eyesight is in the pretty high short-sightedness range, minus 6, so the world is pretty much a blurry smudge without them.
I don't yet need reading glasses, but I fear the day is coming soon. I sometimes need that second or two to focus on small text, but I refuse to admit aging in any way.
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Post by rayge on Nov 8, 2023 17:34:01 GMT
Used to be long-sighted as a kid, wore glasses occasionally (though no pic exists of me with them, so perhaps I imagined the whole thing). Got to be more short-sighted as an adult, but coped without specs mostly until presbyopia kicked in in my late forties. Also have an astigmatism. While I can get by with +2 readers, I now have prescription for glasses for reading computer screens, another for TV screens, and yet another (which I hardly ever wear) for really long distances. And at my last check-up, found I had a cataract developing in my left eye. Heigh ho. What with the specs, the hearing aids and the false teeth, my head is festooned with prosthetics.
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Post by riggers on Nov 8, 2023 22:33:16 GMT
Both parents and sister have worn specs for years. I always had decent eyesight until about 4 years ago, when I began to realise that I was squinting a lot when reading and it became more and more difficult.
Wear 1.5 readers now, buy 'em in bulk from the pound shop. Can't read a thing without them. Very grateful for the feature that enlarges the size of the print on my Kindle app, which means I can always dip into my book during a quiet moment.
My ears, since you didn't ask, are pretty fucked and it feels like it's only a matter of time before, like my old man, I'm gonna need hearing aids.
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Post by souphound on Nov 8, 2023 22:51:05 GMT
My ears, since you didn't ask, are pretty fucked and it feels like it's only a matter of time before, like my old man, I'm gonna need hearing aids. I hear you! Not too well though. Seriously, my own hearing is headed that way for sure. Right now, if there's any ambient noise, I can't hear people talking properly and often have to ask for them to repeat themselves. Really annoying, to me and to my conversation partners.
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Post by riggers on Nov 8, 2023 23:12:24 GMT
My ears, since you didn't ask, are pretty fucked and it feels like it's only a matter of time before, like my old man, I'm gonna need hearing aids. I hear you! Not too well though. Seriously, my own hearing is headed that way for sure. Right now, if there's any ambient noise, I can't hear people talking properly and often have to ask for them to repeat themselves. Really annoying, to me and to my conversation partners. That's what years of gigs and headphones/earbuds does for you. When I got my ears tested a few years back, I was told that I've lost about 20% of my higher frequency hearing, which seems a bit vague to me. How high? 20% of what? I don't notice it much, except the tinnitus, last thing at night, when the TV/ music/podcast goes off and I'm just lay there hearing what sounds like the dawn chorus in my head. I also tend to use subtitles when watching Netflix etc . Peripheral sounds have now become intrusive. If I go out for a meal, I'm tortured by the sounds of other diner's conversations and the sound of their cutlery etc..
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Post by fange on Nov 9, 2023 0:14:02 GMT
Yeah, I need glasses for most small reading texts now, started about 3-4 years ago in my late-40s, about the same time as my folks. Both of my daughters have started needing them from their teens though, so from my own personal experience it seems like watching phones and such really are badly affecting kids today.
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 9, 2023 17:31:27 GMT
...I refuse to admit aging in any way. I surrender! that doesn't mean I'm going around with a walker and an ear-horn yet but I'm keeping my options open.
somebody asked me to do a pretty easy job at work in a very specific way which required at least 900% more walking than if I'd been left alone to do the job on my own. I paced myself but I still looked like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off which seemed to be what was required of me. I didn't get winded or need to sit down but I can tell that's just around the corner.
as for my eye-bowels, how was I to know that the grown-ups actually knew what they were talking about when I was growing up? I must have been yelled at a hundred times while reading in dark corners - "you'll ruin your eyes!"
I suppose I was in my thirties when my then girlfriend was amused by some Mr. Magoo antics and strong armed me to finally see an eye doctor. the doctor had me look through one of a hundred pair of lenses on a big wheel. "read the top line"
"uh...." she clacked up the next set of lenses. "now?" "uh..." clack "uh...." clack "uh....G?" "Damn! you BLIND!" she CLACKED over at least twenty lenses and it still took a while for me to come anywhere near seeing properly.
once we'd selected my lenses she asked if I had any questions. I did. I asked her if I would need to wear my glasses at all times. she answered with a directness and clarity that one seldom associates with doctors of any kind. she said "DUH!"
last time I renewed my Driver's License I was scared shit-less. I've been having trouble reading even with my glasses. I know people who fail the eye test wearing their glasses and they don't drive anymore. the eye charts are well behind the counter from where they ask you to read them. luckily the Department of Motor Vehicles is so poorly run and unorganized that I waited in a chair for the better part of an hour. I covered one eye with a takeout menu and tried my best to read each eye chart behind the counter. it worked! I passed with flying colors! I guess my main problem nowadays is with small type. I often whip out the smart phone and magnify my menu or whatever. it might not look as cool as Sherlock Holmes but it's pretty convenient.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Nov 17, 2023 13:24:26 GMT
I've always had shitty eyesight. It's actually a bit better now than it was 10 years ago.
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Post by fonz on Nov 23, 2023 7:54:31 GMT
Always worn glasses or contacts. I hate them. Always have. Wonky lazy eye. Never had stereoscopic vision, so no depth perception, so, shit at sport. Got bullied at school etc. (this was 30 years before the Potter cool factor kicked in)
I want to get some prescription shades, so I can go to work looking like a rockstar.
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