Periodic "Do you/ did you/ should you wear glasses?"

[Bossy Monkey]

Reposted from last December 'cause I found it when looking for something else and noticed I'd left an important option off. Yes as a matter of fact, I am the most anal-retentive person on Earth.:D

Full disclosure: blind as a bat, me.

[malmapus]

1. I wear them, used to be just for reading, but yeah I need em now lol

..

[av8rdave]

2. Unfortunately, I legally have to carry reading glasses when I fly

Fortunately, I only have to actually use them when I need to (if it involves night flying and reading anything, that would be most of the time).

[evirus]

29. reading glasses when you fly?

you a pilot or something?

[av8rdave]

32. I am....

The flying part is easy, vision wise. It's trying to read those %$#@ charts in poor light.

[MissHoneychurch]

3. I am not wearing glasses or lenses

but I will have to in the future.

[reyd reid reed]

4. I wear 'em...

most all the time. I only take 'em off for...well...to sleep. Sometimes. I've worn glasses since I was in the fourth grade, though -- I feel naked without 'em.

:hi:

[tjwmason]

5. Glasses and contacts

Contacts for about half of the days - normally switch to glasses in the evening.

[sakabatou]

6. I wear glasses because I hate the feeling putting something in my eye

[MissMillie]

7. just got my first pair of bifocals

They're "progressive" bifocals, of course!

[reyd reid reed]

20. Me too..

:toast:

Have you adjusted yet?

[BarenakedLady]

8. I have glasses

for driving. I stopped wearing them recently and found that I can get by without them just fine.

[1gobluedem]

9. Contacts since 1984

But I've been wearing corrective lenses since 1968 when I was 8 years old. And they were bifocals.

I can't see my hand in front of my face without corrective lenses.

[Broken_Hero]

10. I need glasses, suriving without at present....

last week was the final straw of sorts. I got our electric bill in, and I looked at it 5 times...and I thought for sure it said 92.23...so, I get out the correct change, I even had to dig deep in my piggy bank to get the change....and I decide to leave the rest of my change, cause I know the bill was 92.23, and I even look one more time, and yep, 92.23...

I get to the electric company, show my slip, and give up the cash/change, and the lady says I'm over a dollar short. I was wtf? The bill says 92.23, and she says...nope, its 93.61....I looked at it again...and she was abosolutelyfreaking RIGHT. I couldnt' believe my eyes....I paid 90 bucks and finished the rest with my credit card...cause I didn't have the extra buck and change to pay the bill....I told my wife about that later on that night, and she just shook her head...

I also have a hard time reading road signs...not the main roadsigns, like stop/merge what have you...but mile markers, or exits numbers...I cannot read them until I'm almost up on them....it sucks...the last time I had my eyes checked was in 95, or 94...and at the time the doc said my eyes were going bad because...check this, I read to much, and hardly ever take breaks from reading...

[bigwillq]

11. 20/20 vision

:)

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. glasses...I know I'm not the only one who doesn't like wearing contacts

I'm blind as a bat without them and I don't like wearing contacts...people look at me like I have 3 heads when I tell them I don't like contacts, but they really do get on my nerves

[Bossy Monkey]

14. Me neither

Gas permeable weren't noticeably more comfortable than regular hard contacts, and my astigmatism was too pronounced for softs to work well. Since I fell in with the woman with a cat (now two cats), I don't think I could even get 'em in my eyes.

[zanne]

13. I wear contact lenses with reading glasses, OR...

Two pair of glasses at the same time. When I'm at the computer wearing my bifocals, I can't see anything since the "farsighted" part is at the bottom of the glasses. So I wear reading glasses on top of them. It frightens people.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Glasses.

[Left Is Write]

16. I have been wearing glasses since 1977.

[mark414]

17. glasses are for NERDS! i despise nerds...

aarrggghhh


i wear contacts...

[sfdiva]

18. I wear my glasses to prevent my migraines n/t

[u4ic]

19. I wear both glasses and contacts

not at the same time, however...:silly:

[reyd reid reed]

21. Y'know...that's what the eye doc suggested to me the last time.

He suggested that, instead of bifocals, I might want to try contact lenses for distance and the wear reading glasses when I need to.

[u4ic]

25. I am not yet

old enough for bifocals...



:hide:

[tjwmason]

31. I have worn both together...

when a little confused...then get even more confused that I can't see. :crazy:

[Omphaloskepsis]

22. I sport specs...

These but the colour is a very dark brown. It looks like black.

http://www.framesdirect.com/framesfp/Nautica-ratjn/r.html

And that is a fuckload cheaper then what I pay.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. I wear glasses or, sometimes, contacts.

Have since I was 13. I'm quite nearsighted; my uncorrected vision is something like 20/400 or 20/500. Without glasses the world looks like a Monet painting.

[TimeChaser]

24. Slightly near-sighted

I'm on the boarder of what's legal to drive with. I can get by most of the time without glasses, but for certain things (such as seeing the board during class) I need them.

[Random_Australian]

26. Does anyone else see something the matter with these rates?

One person clicked that their vision is fine?

ONE?

What the heck is going on here!

Wait a second, don't worry. I resolved much of it through a better H(0), to the extent that I don't know if it is still p < 0.05. :)

:)

[Bossy Monkey]

28. I think it's a function of which 40 people still don't have me on Ignore

:D
In case you're interested, here's the first go at this poll, from 6/04, which indicated that nearly everybody here is (or was) blind: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1215821
and this is the second one, from last December, where the non-nearsighted came out of the closet:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4420939
Go figure.

[NMMNG]

27. I'm nearsighted and wear glasses

I used to wear contacts but got to the point that my eyes couldn't tolerate them anymore so I went back to glasses. I've thought about Lasik but not only don't have the money, but have heard it's not a good option for people with dry/allergy eyes, which mine are. I'll probably be wearing glasses forever.

[City Lights]

30. Had corrective surgery, but still need them for reading. eom

[Callalily]

33. Yup, wear my

specs most of the time. Don't really care for lenses although I do have them.

[Christian30]

34. I wear glasses for distance, driving, etc.

I LOVE guys in glasses. My BF is blind as a bat w/o his. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

35. I wear glasses.

And I quite like them.

[Dulcinea]

36. Nearsighted since 3rd grade.

Glasses till age 15, then contacts, now contacts during the day & glasses in the evenings & early mornings.

[mvd]

37. I wear glasses

Have to. Distance vision is bad/blurry.

[Quantess]

38. Still don't need corrective eye wear, but,

At 35, my vision isn't as sharp as it used to be. My boyfriend always beats me by about 2 seconds, reading road signs in the distance.

[ChoralScholar]

39. I left my glasses on a nightstand in a hotel in Meridian, MS,

6 years ago, and haven't worn any since.