say, can you see

Khayankh · Post by **Khayankh** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:19 pm

I have *bad* eyesight. My prescription strength is currently -4.25 in both eyes, and I'm 17. This means that if things are further than a foot from my face and I'm not wearing my glasses they are blurry. In my experience, quite a few of the geeky sort are bespectacled, in part because reading/gaming/staring at computer screens is MURDER for your eyes. I can't wait to be 21 and get Lasik. I remember getting my first pair of glasses in fourth grade and being like, 'Oh, wow, I can read street signs, this is amazing!' Since then, I have not been in public without visual correction (except for swimming, but in that case one is also not wearing proper clothes, so it doesn't really count). I tried contacts last summer and they kept dying on me (I worked at a bright, dry, sunny beach all day), so I gave up. Overall, I have spent the majority of my waking life bespectacled. I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences...

Wxgirl · Post by **Wxgirl** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:58 pm

I am 22 soon to be 23 and I am -5.25 in both eyes XP. I wear contacts and was starting to level off, but this last exam I jumped 3 steps o.0

I blame my gradaute research work

seems like a good excuse. I too would like to get Lasik one day, but for now I am a fan of contacts.

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:37 pm

I do need glasses for distance viewing. However, I've heard that laser eye surgery destroys your night vision and seeing as I've got rather good night vision, I don't want that.

SickandCute · Post by **SickandCute** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:35 am

without my glasses I can see clearly to arms length. Everything further than that is a blur.

Thunderhowl · Post by **Thunderhowl** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:21 am

I don't NEED my glasses, but they make reading and watching movies clearer and more enjoyable. I generally tend to wear them at work since if I'm doing a lot of reading I tend to get eyestrain headaches if I'm not wearing them. My life would be more irritating without them, but when the zombie holocaust comes, I won't be easy prey if I lose or break them.

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:11 am

In most my games I am the only one that doesn't wear glasses. Let's see how true that is here.

Lunaroki · Post by **Lunaroki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:07 pm

I have no idea what my prescription strength is, but I have to wear my glasses all the time when I'm awake. I can't see clearly much more than the length of my hand away from my face without them. (Sorry. Can't find a ruler right now.) I've never tried contacts because I can't stand the thought of intentionally poking something into my eye, especially not every day! *shudders* Besides, I'd probably wind up looking like Gwynn from Sluggy Freelance that time she put in contacts.

JmcV · Post by **JmcV** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:18 am

no glasses here. or contacts or anything else. just normal vision AFAIK. i mean...i've never gone to get my eyes tested so i can't say that i've got 20/20 or anything. the reason i've never gone for testing is there's never been any need to because, well, i can see. ^^

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:13 am

I can see too. However, can you tell the details of wood paneling fifteen feet away?

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:47 am

Narf the Mouse wrote:I can see too. However, can you tell the details of wood paneling fifteen feet away?

The stripes or the grain?
*confused*

The last time I went to the eye doctor it was for auras that were a migraine side effect. He tried to prescribe me reading glasses. I don't think so. I'll just read with good light conditions and for measured periods of time (as in, not all day long).

Xaq · Post by **Xaq** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:46 am

I selected the first option, but I actually don't have perfect vision... I just don't need my glasses for very much. I SHOULD be wearing them at the movies, but really I only need them to read at a distance (like reading overheads in the classroom). I'm guessing that in a few more years, I'll need them to drive legally, but until then, I don't wear them.

Al Ray · Post by **Al Ray** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:22 pm

I don't wear either glasses or contacts. As far as I know, since I haven't been tested in my adult years, I have at least 20/20 vision. I blame gentics, because my father is near sighted and my mother is far sighted, orginally. Nor do any of my three sisters have glasses. I find myself to be a minority in many of the groups I have been in.

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:53 pm

Details.

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:04 am

Narf the Mouse wrote:Details.

Nobody has wood panelling around here.
I can see the details of our cubicle walls in the office that far away.
So sure.

What is your point, do your glasses let you do that?
Or is this some sort of test for my aptitude to fight an alien race of paneling monsters?

DrunkenPrayer · Post by **DrunkenPrayer** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:11 am

I'm slightly short sighted but it's not bad enough that my optician reckons I need glasses yet. It's getting slowly worse though.

I'm more worried about going bald to be honest

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:45 am

Tom the Fanboy wrote:
Narf the Mouse wrote:Details.
Nobody has wood panelling around here.
I can see the details of our cubicle walls in the office that far away.
So sure.

What is your point, do your glasses let you do that?
Or is this some sort of test for my aptitude to fight an alien race of paneling monsters?

...I can only answer that one way: Yes.

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:52 am

Narf the Mouse wrote: ...I can only answer that one way: Yes.

Sweet.
*gets out his gazebo slaying crossbow*

Lets grind some grain!

Speaking of viedo games that test you proficiency at fighting aliens, anybody remember that episode of Clerks the Cartoon?

Narf the Mouse · Post by **Narf the Mouse** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:33 pm

No, but I did read The Last Starfighter.

Thunderhowl · Post by **Thunderhowl** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:37 am

[quote="Tom the Fanboy]Speaking of viedo games that test you proficiency at fighting aliens, anybody remember that episode of Clerks the Cartoon?[/quote]

Yeah, I just watched it again last week. Pyramid.
Also, now I must watch the Last Starfighter again when I get home from work.
Good show.

JmcV · Post by **JmcV** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:08 am

We should totally have a video game movie night, and watch like...The Wizard, and The Last Starfighter, and Tron. I'm missing some, I know I am. What else belongs on the list?

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