It'd make you a much calmer person. Contact wearers always are... when the first thing you do every day is poke your eyeball, yea...
Heh. I'm not sure why, but I am reminded of the first time I was prescribed contact lenses. I was 10 or 11, and my glasses had gotten to the point where the sheer weight of them was causing problems with my nose and ears. I don't remember quite exactly the reasoning, but the doc at the time said, "Contacts are the only solution at this point". So I got them.
When I returned to school with my new contacts, I became a mini-celebrity ... The Girl Who Can Touch Eyeballs :rolleyes:
On a less silly note, learning to care for contacts at the age that I did instilled a certain sense of responsibility and care ... I think a good thing.
My last visit to the eye doctor produced an interesting result. Throughout my life, my eyesight has gotten increasingly worse. Once reaching my mid twenties, it wasn't a fast decline, but it still declined. Once I hit my early 30's it stabilized.
Now, my vision appears to be "getting better", and I'm needing a lesser prescription than I did last year and the previous years. Weird stuff.
Rhaethe, you must be near-sighted. It's common for the eyes to become far-sighted as you age, which for some people means their vision gets "better". Those of us with astigmatism are the ones that have to get bifocals instead because our near-sightedness is an eyeball shape problem instead of a lens problem, and we end up being nearsighted and farsighted at the same time :\
Rhaethe, you must be near-sighted. It's common for the eyes to become far-sighted as you age, which for some people means their vision gets "better". Those of us with astigmatism are the ones that have to get bifocals instead because our near-sightedness is an eyeball shape problem instead of a lens problem, and we end up being nearsighted and farsighted at the same time :\
I am near-sighted, yep. I do have "some" astigmatism in the left eye but not enough to warrant any special correction outside of the left lens prescription being one "step" stronger than the right.
It'd make you a much calmer person. Contact wearers always are... when the first thing you do every day is poke your eyeball, yea...
So that's why I seem calm?
I wear contacts, once put them in not completely awake. I thought I dropped one, so I start to frantically look all over for a lens. Turns out that I shoved 2 in one eye >.< And this is why I now put my contacts in last, right before I leave home to go to work.
When I returned to school with my new contacts, I became a mini-celebrity ... The Girl Who Can Touch Eyeballs :rolleyes:
Same happened to me, even though I wasn't the only one with lenses. Though they found it more odd that I allowed someone to poke my eye in the first place. (My very first try-out meant having the lenses put in my eyes by some chick, she was all leaning over, I didn't mind one bit until she actually dropped the lenses in my eyes. I don't think I've ever cried that bad lol.)
I get pegged as 'calm' a lot too. I think folks confuse calm with apathetic sometimes. "Does this bother me enough to work up some anger? Nah, 'fraid not. Go away." This could also be brought about by daily eye poking, I think.
I had a friend who wore contacts for a short time, but never could get past putting something in his eye. However, it was fine if someone else did it. After three days of my putting them in for him in the breakroom at work, I told him to figure it out or wear his glasses.
Yep, nearsighted here too, though I'm just old enough to start getting the 'I need bifocals' effect when my eyes are really tired. I go with reading glasses over contacts on those infrequent times when it happens, with the blessing of my optometrist.
Please notify me when they make contacts for colorblindness, I'd pay for those :/ You guys should consider yourself lucky. Infact scratch that, women are completely immune to colorblindness, le sigh. :<
And this is why I now put my contacts in last, right before I leave home to go to work.
If I'd put my glasses last, I'd go to work with my shirt back to front and odd socks ... Anything more than 30 centimeters away from my eyes lives in a world of fuzziness.
So I got the doc to give me a pair of trial soft contacts till my hybrids come in. I already miss the "hold shit really close to see tiny shit" effect... I can't even focus on things that close /sigh
Heh. I'm not sure why, but I am reminded of the first time I was prescribed contact lenses. I was 10 or 11, and my glasses had gotten to the point where the sheer weight of them was causing problems with my nose and ears. I don't remember quite exactly the reasoning, but the doc at the time said, "Contacts are the only solution at this point". So I got them.
When I returned to school with my new contacts, I became a mini-celebrity ... The Girl Who Can Touch Eyeballs :rolleyes:
On a less silly note, learning to care for contacts at the age that I did instilled a certain sense of responsibility and care ... I think a good thing.
My last visit to the eye doctor produced an interesting result. Throughout my life, my eyesight has gotten increasingly worse. Once reaching my mid twenties, it wasn't a fast decline, but it still declined. Once I hit my early 30's it stabilized.
Now, my vision appears to be "getting better", and I'm needing a lesser prescription than I did last year and the previous years. Weird stuff.
I am near-sighted, yep. I do have "some" astigmatism in the left eye but not enough to warrant any special correction outside of the left lens prescription being one "step" stronger than the right.
So that's why I seem calm?
I wear contacts, once put them in not completely awake. I thought I dropped one, so I start to frantically look all over for a lens. Turns out that I shoved 2 in one eye >.< And this is why I now put my contacts in last, right before I leave home to go to work.
Same happened to me, even though I wasn't the only one with lenses. Though they found it more odd that I allowed someone to poke my eye in the first place. (My very first try-out meant having the lenses put in my eyes by some chick, she was all leaning over, I didn't mind one bit until she actually dropped the lenses in my eyes. I don't think I've ever cried that bad lol.)
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I get pegged as 'calm' a lot too. I think folks confuse calm with apathetic sometimes. "Does this bother me enough to work up some anger? Nah, 'fraid not. Go away." This could also be brought about by daily eye poking, I think.
I had a friend who wore contacts for a short time, but never could get past putting something in his eye. However, it was fine if someone else did it. After three days of my putting them in for him in the breakroom at work, I told him to figure it out or wear his glasses.
Yep, nearsighted here too, though I'm just old enough to start getting the 'I need bifocals' effect when my eyes are really tired. I go with reading glasses over contacts on those infrequent times when it happens, with the blessing of my optometrist.
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Curse PremiumIf I'd put my glasses last, I'd go to work with my shirt back to front and odd socks ... Anything more than 30 centimeters away from my eyes lives in a world of fuzziness.
So I got the doc to give me a pair of trial soft contacts till my hybrids come in. I already miss the "hold shit really close to see tiny shit" effect... I can't even focus on things that close /sigh