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How's your eyesight?

Started by Brazen, August 31, 2011, 07:47:18 AM

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Whayt vision correction do you have?

None, I can see perfectly
8 (20.5%)
For distance/astigmatism only
20 (51.3%)
For reading/close up only
0 (0%)
For distance and reading
6 (15.4%)
I probably need glasses but I'm in denial
4 (10.3%)
"Take me with you. I can see. I can see perfectly."
1 (2.6%)

Total Members Voted: 39

Brazen

I've just been for my annual eye check-up and I've finally got to the point where I will shortly need reading glasses as well my distance/astigmatism pair. So it's a cord round the neck, bifocals, or peering disapprovingly over a half-moon pair in the next year or so for me :weep:

How's your eyesight? Got glasses/lenses or do you suspect you need some but are in denial?

Josquius

My eyesight, despite a lifetime at a computer screen, thankfully remains intact.

My hearing on the other hand...
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Tamas

Well, don't do bifocals, you are way too young for that! Reading glass is perfectly okay though :)

Apart from this cylinder thing which keeps switching here and there somewhat, my eyesight has been practically stagnating for about a decade now, the worsening of it has been marginal. Which ain't too bad considering I work and play with computers.

Ed Anger

Glasses since High School. Too much Atari 2600.
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Martim Silva

I'm myopic since 1979. I use glasses at home.

Outside those closer to me it nobody knows I have bad eyesight, thanks to that strange miracle of modern science called "contact lenses".

Tamas

Quote from: Martim Silva on August 31, 2011, 08:21:46 AM
I'm myopic since 1979. I use glasses at home.

Outside those closer to me it nobody knows I have bad eyesight, thanks to that strange miracle of modern science called "contact lenses".

yeah I am pretty sure nobody notices it you are wearing them

Martim Silva

Quote from: Tamas
yeah I am pretty sure nobody notices it you are wearing them

Unless you are a user yourself, you can't notice them unless specifically looking VERY closely at the eyes.

Modern lenses aren't like the old glass ones that made our eyes resemble those of a frog.

Razgovory

My eye sight has been steadily going downhill since high school.  This August I got a restriction put on my license that said I must wear glasses while driving.  Before that, I typically wore my glasses while driving but was not required to. :Embarrass:  The last few years my eye sight has really gotten bad, to the point where without my glasses I find myself talking to to strangers thinking they are acquaintances and getting into the wrong car in the parking lot.  Refuse to get contacts though.
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viper37

Quote from: Brazen on August 31, 2011, 07:47:18 AM
I've just been for my annual eye check-up and I've finally got to the point where I will shortly need reading glasses as well my distance/astigmatism pair. So it's a cord round the neck, bifocals, or peering disapprovingly over a half-moon pair in the next year or so for me :weep:

How's your eyesight? Got glasses/lenses or do you suspect you need some but are in denial?
I have glasses, but I don't need them except for the computer.  I can see perfectly, but one of my eyes is lazy and can't make a proper focus from short to long distance and back.  So I got headaches when I don't wear them.
Otherwise, I'm fine.
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Eddie Teach

My eyesight is awful. I can read a book without my contacts, but reading things on my monitor is problematic. Anything beyond a couple feet is a blur.
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garbon

I need glasses for distance slightly but I never wear them - actually I lost my only pair.
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Valmy

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 31, 2011, 08:59:31 AM
My eyesight is awful. I can read a book without my contacts, but reading things on my monitor is problematic. Anything beyond a couple feet is a blur.

Yep.  My eyesight is horrible.
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Syt

-0.5/-0.25 or thereabouts. Not much, but having glasses pay off when I'm at the movies or the theater, want to read street signs on the other side of the street etc.
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DGuller

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 31, 2011, 08:59:31 AM
My eyesight is awful. I can read a book without my contacts, but reading things on my monitor is problematic. Anything beyond a couple feet is a blur.
Same here, except that I'm never putting things on my eyeballs.

Martinus

Nice job with the Now Show meme.  :cool:

And I'm the "in denial" group. I have about -0.5 but refuse to wear glasses since can't be arsed/look goofy in all I tried.