Do you wear glasses or contacts?

I can’t see without my glasses. :nerd_face: And my eyes are too dry for contacts or surgery. So glasses are my life unfortunately.

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Since I was that age. Although a little corrective surgery and training eye patch would be more effective at that time. A lost opportunity to do it right at the right age. :weary_cat:
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Yep. Glasses. Thick ones unfortunately. Tried contacts once, horrible foreign objects in your eyes.

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Just reading glasses now. Wore glasses/contacts most of my life until Lasik at 54 years young. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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I had LASIK, and then about 15 years later I had PRK to touch it up. I don’t need glasses anymore.

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I have monovision, created 20 years ago with lasik in just one eye, and leaving the other one very nearsighted. I have 20/20 vision in the corrected eye for distance viewing, and horrible nearsighted vision in the other eye for up-close reading. They work together perfectly. I don’t need glasses or contacts.

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Me, too!

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Just beer goggles.

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Heh, nerds.

Also yes though lol. I got lucky though for the most part. Irealized when I was like 25 or so that I was driving super slow so I could squint at the street signs so I went to the optometrist.

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I had 20/15 vision until I was about 44, then presbyopia set in. I got some nice BOIC Lennon wire rim frames though.

Then there’s the Clark Kent Horn Rims, it fun to change your voice when you take them off, or use them to indicate things for emphasis. :wink:

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Amblyopia / Lazy Eye was not ‘diagnosed’ until I was 6, which I remember as the summer of stubbed toes, skinned knees, and bruises because I had to wear a patch over my dominant eye and had no depth perception.
Spoiler Alert: it didn’t work.
I am legally blind in my left eye, and if I knew who the pediatrician - who told my mom that I’d “grow out of it” - was, I’d kick him in the nards. Repeatedly.

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I am suppose to wear glasses… but my vision isn’t bad enough and I 99% of the time don’t wear them.

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Same

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No.
Lasik 35 yrs ago.
Went from 20/200 to 20/15. It’s still at 20/20.
Most amazing thing to improve my life I’ve ever done, except marrying my wife 40 yrs ago…

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Fun fact. In Europe, maybe most of the world, you don’t have to see an eye doctor to purchase long distance glasses. Meaning you could purchase your driving/movie watching glasses on a European woot!

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I can read without glasses, and I can walk around inside and do most things without glasses. But I need them for anything beyond about five feet away. When I was working I wore contacts for driving and for most work-related tasks, and put on reading glasses when needed - they essentially negated the contacts. After I retired I switched to no correction for most of the day, and putting on glasses for driving or watching tv. I recently gave in and got my first pair of bifocals. I’m still getting used to them, but I can read more comfortably with no glasses, so most of the time the bifocals are… now where did I leave them?

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