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on: June 13, 2010 08:58
Sunglasses anytime I go outside or leave the house. My eyes are insanely light-sensitive - I'll actually tear up on a sunny day if I don't wear them. Otherwise I don't need glasses.
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on: July 09, 2010 06:06
Used to, but not anymore, my vision's very very good now.
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on: September 15, 2010 11:55
I don't, sadly. I think they look AWESOME. In fact, when I was young (around 3-4) and didn't know better, I looked straight at the sun and watched it change colors from yellow, white, and blue (yes, the sun is blue!). When I was 5-6, I wanted glasses like my dad, so I would press my hands on my eyes and watch the pretty color patterns which resulted. Then I realized it wasn't going to work (and I'd rather not be blind), so I stopped. Now I'm seventeen (almost 18!) and still don't need glasses. Maybe later in life I'll need reading glasses or something... that would be nice.
I guess it's like the story of me and my freckles. When I was 3 or so, I saw a ginger girl covered in freckles. I had no freckles whatsoever and desperately wanted some, so I prayed at my bedside that night for God to give me some freckles. About five years later, I got freckles on my cheekbones, like the "ideal" freckles look. I loved it! (Since now I would hate to be covered in freckles.)
Maybe the same thing will happen with me and glasses? Who knows!
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on: March 29, 2011 05:57
I had glasses when I was 7-9. But they weren't for my eyes; my pupils are so big, they take on too much light and give me massive headaches, so I got glasses but they were the wrong prescription and they made things worse but I didn't know that, so I went around wearing them for nearly three years before they finally broke and when I went back, the doctor said he didn't know why I had them in the first place and I should've gotten medication for migraines instead; that my eyes weren't really the problem. But by that time, it was too late so he said it would change as I got older and they sort of have: I don't have headaches like that anymore
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on: March 29, 2011 10:47
I'm supposed to wear glasses, but my vision isn't that bad, and they're a little too uncomfortable...I'll have to start wearing them while I'm driving as soon as I take my permit test in April or May...*sigh*
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on: October 22, 2012 08:30
I have pink and plum colored glasses. I've be wearing them for almost three years now. At times I wish I had contacts, but I like my glasses too.
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on: November 04, 2012 07:07
I have green and brown glasses for an astigmatism. I agree with Eruwestiel_Evensong, glasses are annoying sometimes, but other times they're great!
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on: November 23, 2012 10:08
Yup, I wear glasses. I need them for distance, but I keep them on all the time cuz it just makes everything so much clearer. They're brown and turquoise.
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on: November 24, 2012 07:25
I wear glasses!They are blue and grey.
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on: November 24, 2012 10:03
I wear glasses. I am near-sighted (can't see far away). I wish I could wear contacts, but my eyes are just too dry for them and they bother me too much. I am hoping one day I could get Lasik. I really don't like wearing glasses at all.
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on: November 26, 2012 01:10
i have only recently got glasses for reading (which, mostly, i dont bother to wear!)
that would be the only time i would wear glasses.
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on: August 15, 2013 07:42
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on: August 15, 2013 08:33
The only glasses I wear are sunglasses..I always wear them when I am outside..even on cloudy days.

If I have trouble seeing tiny, tiny print or want to get a better look at something, say like a photograph, I use my magnifying glass. It is about 4 inches round and has a wonderful mother-of-pearl handle.

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on: August 15, 2013 10:46
I do wear glasses. They're purple and black and the sides look like butterfly wings

I've worn glasses since middle school, and I wouldn't be able to get by without them. I want to try contacts, but I don't have the money for them right now And I don't wear makeup so I think that my face would look really blank if I only wore contacts
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on: August 15, 2013 12:59
I don't. For which I am very thankful. Having things on my face drives me up the wall. I can't even wear sunglasses for a long time.
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on: August 15, 2013 03:35
Well, Mareth, when you HAVE to wear glasses to see, you kinda get used to it
I do wear them, but have contemplated getting contacts.
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on: August 15, 2013 06:02
Yeah, I wear glasses. im practically blind without them. When I was at lotrelessars house the other day, the four of us (three being glasses wearers) got into a discussion of what time the TV said. It turned out to be 9:16 PM. Ive had glasses since kindergarden, and i am currently a sophomore.
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on: September 22, 2013 01:51
I have reading glasses.
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on: March 09, 2014 04:07
Looks like one day I may be getting contacts, but I have astigmatism, and a wierd irregular one according to the doctor, so we shall see.
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on: March 10, 2014 01:13
I have glasses, have had them for about 6 years now, they don't really bother me, without them I can hardly see a thing. :/
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on: March 10, 2014 09:32
Without my glasses, I'm blind as a bat. Not even joking.

I would totally get contacts if they weren't so expensive *sigh*
If I could, I would get sea-green/blue ones because they're so pretty! But plain ones would be ok too, I like the color of my eyes
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on: March 10, 2014 11:43
Bats aren't completely blind, Ele.

I've always wanted color contacts. I think it would be weirdly interesting to see what I would look like with a different color of eyes.
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on: March 10, 2014 01:09
I would like to see what I look like with green eyes, like the rest of my family. Im the only one, even in my extended family, who has brown eyes and reddish hair.
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on: March 11, 2014 12:26
I do!!! And I look weird without them!!! I want contacts, it would be a lot easier, but i actually like my classes i would just get non-prescription contacts to change the color of my eye. Probably green or light blue!
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on: March 12, 2014 06:59
Yea and I would get contacts so that when I'm driving I wouldnt look like a computer nerd
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on: March 14, 2014 10:45
Yes, since 1991, if i remember correctly. They were for reading and working at the computer then (this was 14 inch VGA monitor time, folks). I was able to do without the glasses, but my eyes were then tired out. Perhaps ten years ago it occasionally happened that I forgot my glasses in the morning when driving to work, because I could still focus sharply on objects 15 to 20 feet away. By now, the focal point of my unassisted eyes is behind the retina at all distances, so I do not see anything clearly anymore, getting worse the closer the object I try to focus on is to my eyes.
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on: March 14, 2014 10:49
Lol, when I went for my permit test, I couldn't see the line on the eye chart they pointed to, so I just read a different one and they didn't notice. When I got my vision tested today, with my glasses I am 20-20 in the right eye and 20-25 in the left.
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on: March 20, 2014 06:02
My left eyes needs a stronger lens, but not by much.
I LOVE my glasses though! They define me! XD
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on: March 20, 2014 03:46
Yeah, my left eye as well. When my glasses are off I have to elevate my head and look to the left so I can see more out of my right eye. Has anyone here considered Lasik Eye surgery? To me it seems really scary and unsafe. Or, has anyone had it before?
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on: March 20, 2014 06:11
I have worn glasses since I was about 14, short-sighted. At first I had heavy black things and I hated them. Then I got those round gold-rim John Lennon glasses which were much better and had curly wire ear things so I could play badminton without them flying off. They looked cool too. Since then I've hardly noticed I'm wearing them. Forty years later I find out I can't have that sort of frame anymore 'cos they're not fashionable. Duh! Glossomania rears its ugly head again.

Good news. I got a new prescription for mid-field glasses so I can finally read what I'm typing on here. Brilliant! Only square ones though. Boo!
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on: March 21, 2014 03:17
I... hate to say this... but I wear glasses. I've started wearing them since I was... about 5 or 6. I take after my mom: bad eyesight. What's worse, is that I like to play computer games. I don't even wanna say how bad it is. I hate my glasses. I'll be super glad if my eyesight is good.
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on: March 21, 2014 10:23
tarcolan said: Forty years later I find out I can't have that sort of frame anymore 'cos they're not fashionable. Duh!


DUH is the right reaction to comments from fashion nerds. With that I mean the people who think you always have to be up-to-date on everything external and superficial (like the classical computer nerds who think there is no intersting life outside virtual reality).

We have a nice fitting saying in Germany that I'm going to try and translate:
"Oh, so you think that's not fashionable anymore? Uh-huh. Gets me about as excited as a CNN newsflash that somewhere in the more distant Chinese provinces a grain of rice just dropped off a chopstick."
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