Do you wear glasses?

[Jay-qu]

There is a stereo-type that smart people more often than not wear glasses.

 

Example:

About 7 years ago I was diagnosed with near-sightedness, my dad trying to comfort me (thinking kids with glasses tend to be picked on) said "Put it this way, now you can become a scientist, all scienctists wear glasses" It made me laugh and put my mind at ease.

These days spending lots of time infront of a computer my eyes havent got any better, so I now must where glasses to drive and if I want any hope of reading the overhead projector in lectures!

 

So been a smart bunch, lets test the stereo-type!

 

You know the drill, take you pick of the options, discuss below :cup:

 

I wear glasses and contact lenses for sports :(

[Tormod]

I'm smart. No glasses, no contacts.

[C1ay]

I needed no vision assistance until that forty-something disease hit me, now I rely on vision assistance....

[TheBigDog]

I have worn glasses, and I am thinking about starting again. One of the things I have noticed is that my vision varies from day to day, so even when I wore glasses they were not always right, which is what made me stop wearing them. My problem is that I need to get my Ohio drivers license. I am still using my Colorado one, but technically as a resident I need to switch. I am not sure if I will pass the eye exam. So I tink it is best to get glasses again.

 

I had perfect vision until I was about 22. The last time my vision was tested (about 4 years ago?) I had astigmatism in both eyes, and it was at opposite angles. I have the feeling that my brain is working overtime to turn what I see into a sensible, undistorted image. Who knows what I may be capable of if I could free up that processor time for something else!

 

Has anyone tried the different methods ofr natural eyesight improvement? I hear the ads for it, but I have not really looked into it.

 

Bill

[Janus]

About 7 years ago I was diagnosed with short sightedness, my dad trying to comfort me (thinking kids with glasses tend to be picked on) said "Put it this way, now you can become a scientist, all scienctists wear glasses" It made me laugh and put my mind at ease.

 

What won't they think of next! I had no idea, that they could cure short sightedness with glasses now!

 

I, however, have been near-sighted (myopia) since the 5th grade. I'm now reaching that age where I am starting to have to take my glasses off to read comfortably ( especially in dimmer light).

[cwes99_03]

I don't need glasses for everyday, however, I do see a marked improvement in my ability to read far away objects, or over contrasted objects (like thick white letters on a black sign at night with my headlights shining on it.) However, my vision is only slightly out of normal (while my brother can't hardly even identify shapes more than 3 feet beyond his nose.)

[Jay-qu]

What won't they think of next! I had no idea, that they could cure short sightedness with glasses now!

 

I, however, have been near-sighted (myopia) since the 5th grade. I'm now reaching that age where I am starting to have to take my glasses off to read comfortably ( especially in dimmer light).

Good catch Janus, I will change it for the sake of correctness :cup: cheers

[Mercedes Benzene]

20/20 vision for me!

Sometimes I wear non-perscription glasses just because they're fashionable. :)

[ronthepon]

I'm short sighted... seriously, the race I belong to seems to have a genetic problem.

 

Dad, Mom, Bro, well... friends belonging to the same background... everyone is short sighted.

 

Funny thing is that about 1% of us bother to take up glasses.

 

I've been significantly short sighted for about five years, now, and have no intentions whatsoever of getting glasses.

[Turtle]

Almost 20 years ago while working in the trades I suffered a penetrating injury to one of my eyes. I was using a framing axe as a chisel & driving it with a framing hammer when a BB sized flake of steel flew off; the steel cut the muscles that operate the pupil and then went on through the lens. The surgeons removed the lens but saved my eye ball with the retina intact, but for all intents & purposes the eye is blind. We tried a contact lens for awhile but at best it gave me 20/80 & I couldn't afford the chemicals. (My eyes aren't green but they gave me a green contact so I had two different colored eyes like one of those Aussie shepard dogs.;) )

Because my pupil doesn't work & is stuck wide open, I am highly sensitive to light & must wear sunglasses almost constantly; I keep 4 pairs around at all times so I can find at least one. The injury is obvious & disfiguring and without sun glasses adults stare at it & children point at it and ask "what's wrong with your eye?" On the other hand, adults are uncomfortable talking to me with my sun glasses on & either comment or directly ask me to remove them.:doh: More good reasons to avoid people all together the way I see it.

This leaves one "good" eye for everything else. So far I can see well enough with it to pass a driver's test, shoot accurately, and use my camera & binoculars. Due to aging, I can't read a thing without glasses and I just buy those reading glasses off the rack at the druggists. (I keep 3 pair of those around.)

What I miss the most is depth perception. :)

[CraigD]

I’m slightly nearsighted. I was given my first glasses at about age 8-10, and was told that if I wore them, my vision might improve. It actually did, so that when I got retested and new glasses around age 18, one lens was optically flat “plain glass”, with the other had only a small refraction.

 

At 19, I lost my glasses, and couldn’t afford to replace them. When I next could afford them (via my health insurance :) ), at 26, both of my eyes required correction again.

 

In my early 30s, for diver’s license renewal, I wore my glasses to take the exam, having no confidence that I could pass it without them.

 

When I got my last pair of glasses several years ago, I switched from the large, unfashionable-since-the-1970s “Aviator’s loupe” I’ve favored since my teens, to the tiny frameless lenses now fashionable. Afterwards, I recalled that my big old glasses served a purpose of which I was barely aware – safety goggles. On a couple of occasions, I’ve done some little work, or walked up on someone working with a grinder or other fragment-throwing-proned machine, without putting on safety goggles, relying on my glasses for eye protection. Hopefully, my new, stylish glasses won’t cost me an eye!

I'm now reaching that age where I am starting to have to take my glasses off to read comfortably ( especially in dimmer light).

Me, too. I sometimes go for long periods with my glasses flipped up into my hair, because I’m unable to comfortably focus my eyes at closer than arm’s length distances.

 

What’s happening to Janus and me is not so much further misshaping of our eyes that causes myopia, but loss of accommodation – the ability of our lenses to have their shape controlled by the tiny ciliary muscles that serve that purpose.

 

Despite much older literature to the contrary, this appears not to be due to either a loss of elasticity of the lens, or a weakening of the ciliary muscles, but due to slight enlargement of the lense, resulting in either slackness of the fibrous “ciliary zonule” connecting the muscles to the lense, or, some studies suggest, a sort of creeping of the attachment of the attachment of the zonule to the lense from the edge of the lense to its face. Some experimental surgeries on people with severe loss of accommodation indicate that it may someday be possible to surgically restore accommodation to youthful functional levels.

[CraigD]

According to this wikipedia section, many studies have shown a positive correlation between IQ and myopia! (7-8 points on the SB scale). Psychologist Arthur Jenson believes this is because both myopia and IQ are caused by the same genes.

 

I must admit, being myopic, I find Jenson’s claim a bit flattering. :) On the other hand, I’m only slightly myopic, so have misgivings that his idea implies that I’m only slightly bright :doh:

 

I’m inclined to think the correlation might be because, having been told as kids that our less-than-perfect vision disqualifies us as astronauts, we myopes compensate by putting extra effort into academics. Or, perhaps severe myopes are less prone to visual distraction, and thus gain some IQ.

 

Seriously, Jenson’s claims are yet another opening into the ambivalent and controversial arena of the role of genetics in intelligence.

[InfiniteNow]

I wear neither glasses nor contact lenses, but have some trepedation which causes me pause when thinking it will forever be this way. Microaneurisms have been detected in my eye, resulting from side effects of my diabetes. They cease to grow if I keep my blood sugars under good control, but that's a tight rope I'm forever walking and I've been known to fall off once or twice.

 

When I was a teenager, I was tested at 20/15, which is supposed to be better than 20/20. It's quite possible that I'll go pretty quickly from amazing vision to being totally blind.

 

Oh bollacks to that potentiality... :)

[Turtle]

 

When I was a teenager, I was tested at 20/15, which is supposed to be better than 20/20.

Oh bollacks to that potentiality... :shade:

Yes indeed, 20/15 is better. This vision ratio rating I find is poorly understood by many people, so here's the skinny. The numbers refer to feet, and the first number is your 20 feet & the second number is everyone elses' feet. With your example of 20/15, you can clearly see at 20 feet what "average" people have to move 5 feet closer (15 feet) to see clearly. For my example of 20/80 with a contact on my injured eye, I could see clearly at 20 feet what the average person can see clearly at 80 feet.:Glasses:

 

"I see", said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw. :eek2:

[Mercedes Benzene]

Yeah! I keep learning new stuff about Turtle all the time!

 

I'm proud of my good vision, and I hope it lasts long into adulthood.

[Jay-qu]

wow Turtle I never knew that about you! what challenges life throws us..

 

Im not sure what my rating is in numbers but it cant be that far off average.

 

So Craig I see we may be proving this stereotype :)

[Turtle]

If I remember correctly I was diagnosed as 25/20 and 20/24 (do those even sound right?) That means I am farsighted in one eye and near sighted in the other, but both by only slight amounts.

 

 

The 25/20 doesn't sound right. Everything I can find has the first number always a 20 (20 feet) or a 6 (6 meters in Europe)?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question126.htm