How old when you got glasses?

I got on lmy glasses when I was still in primary shcool. I like read books and watch TV, almost my activety in home is read bood and watch TV, so my sight became worse and worse. I really don't like the glasses, I tried contact glasses, but that can't be wear for a long time.

I was 14 years old when I was forced to wear eyeglasses because my eyes can no longer see clearly. I was excited but after a week or a couple of it, I was so upset. I realized it more when I have to join my friends bathing on the beach. I had to wear off my eyeglasses. And everything was so blur then. That day, I realized that having eyeglasses is a disadvantage. Now, I am wearing contact lenses but I really wish to have an eye-laser surgery to correct my eyes. I want them back to normal.

I was in elementary school but I don't remember how old I was.My mom wore glasses.I was upset to wear them if I am remembering correctly. These days I only wear my glasses when i go out of the house because I need to see far away.At home everything is close enough.

I was born with defective eyesight and by the time I was three years old I had had two operations and was wearing glasses. I have worn glasses ever since, and although I would love to be able to wear contact lenses, I can't get on with them. I suppose that having grown up wearing glasses, it never exactly upset me that much although I have had times when I wished I could wear contacts.

i have been wearing glasses since i was in middle school. i thought it was okay to be wearing glasses. the important thing is that i can see clearly.

I first started to wear glasses at the age of 10. There are a lot of people in my family who wear glasses. When I found out I had to wear glasses I wasn't really that upset because without them I was getting very bad headaches. The only time when glasses became a problem for me was when I started at secondary school and was called all sorts of names because of them. But after a while I just ignored the comments and the other kids soon became bored of me not responding. Now I wear contact lenses most of the day, but will put on my glasses after I get back from work to give my eyes a rest.

I was about 26 when I started wearing glasses which means I have been wearing them for 20 years now. And then when I turned 40 I had to get bifocals because I couldn't read small print at all. I remember the first incident when I noticed this, my mom had called me to look up a number in the phone book and I practically had to put the phone book on the floor to read it. I have always wore glasses and never had the desire to wear contacts.

I have had wonderful eyesight for almost my whole life. I never like the idea of wearing glasses or contacts. My eyesight was so good that at age 18, I was drafted into the Navy to be a communicator, and for that vocation, one needs perfect eyesight. After all these years of not wearing glasses, I finally had to get a pair for myself about six months ago on the urging of my wife. As I am getting older and my eyesight is not so great anymore for reading purposes, I have gotten myself a pair of reading glasses, which I use to read the newspaper and sometimes for staring at the small words on the computer screen. Otherwise, I still go around town not having to wear any glasses. I hope my eyesight will stay this way for a long time more to come.

I had my eyeglasses only a few years ago. I am not 43 years old and being a teacher by profession, spending a lot of time reading and working in the computer, there is no way I could avoid having an eyeglasses. The first pair I had was for my astigmatism and after 6 months I got cured from it. I went for a year without eyeglasses, then last year, I had to upgrade it to a reading glasses because I can't read letters anymore.

Hi coffeeshot. I was twelve when i got my first pair of specks. And i hated them, i used to get teased alot so i very rarely wore them.At twenty i tried the contacts but never felt comfortable with them.So i started wearing glasses again, it's amazing all the styles of frames you can now choose from.At forty i'm now comfortable with myself and the fact that i'm blind without them,and i think i look just fine with them.

I am 22 years old, and i have been wearing glasses since i was in the 3rd grade. I am near sighted. And unlike so many people i still wear my glasses. My sister has upgraded as she says to contact lenses. I dont think that they are for me to tell you the truth. My glasses are doing just fine for now.

I was six when I first got my glasses, I was born blind in my left eye which put a huge strain on my right so the sight quickly got bad. I have to wear them all the time and cant see further than a few inches without them before it all becomes blurry.

I was 9! (third grade) At first I was excited coz I always liked people wearing glasses, making me think that i'd look smarter with it. But it doesnt work that way and I'm still required to wear it now (although I prefer contact lens better)

I think I was about 11 years old when I first got mine. My father just started wearing glasses and my mother is planning on getting them. I was excited to get them at first, but then I stopped liking the way I looked with them.

I was about age 45 and was very upset but today I'm so glad to have my glasses that I can not be without them.My glasses are Multifocal so Iwear them all the time for to read and for driving and as sunglasses they changing the color.

It was a long time ago (lol), but I remember it well! I was 15 years old, and I was having problems at school trying to reading the blackboard from my desk, so I would ask the girl next to me what it said. My teacher caught me asking one day and I got into trouble until I explained I couldn't read the blackboard from a distance. I had my eyes tested and lo and behold, I was very short-sighted. I hated wearing spectacles - they weren't exactly the "in thing" to be wearing at 15 - but I had no choice, at least I could see! I had to wear them all the time - and I still do!

I got mine when I was either 4 or 5. One of my worst memories was when I was just started school and they made me wear a patch over my good eye to try and strengthen my bad eye , good idea if unlike me you cannot even see the single large letter on an eyechart with your bad eye! I still wear glasses - I don't need to wear them walking around but if I want to read anything then I have to have my glasses on! I don;t think I have ever been too upset about wearing them - I have always been used to it ! My 14 year old son had regular eye tests til a few years ago and his vision was always perfect, last year he started getting very severe migraines every other day - we got him an eye test and sure enough he needed glasses. I thought it would be a fight to make him wear them but he actually likes wearing them! xxx

I had to get reading glasses when I was in grad school, when I was 21. There was just so much reading that my right eye, which is slightly weaker than my left, was straining to keep up, and it gave me a lot of headaches. So I wear my glasses when I'm reading or on the computer, but that's all. My vision is actually 20/20 in my weak eye, but since it's better in my strong eye, I still have to wear glasses. :)

Hi coffeshot! To be honest with you, I still haven't gotten my own reading glasses. I still borrow my hubby's if I have to read something that is printed in very small fine prints which is only rare that I do. I still can read small prints easily that is why I really am not yet pressured to get one for myself and I am 42. However, hubby does not like it because he always tell me I may do damage on my vision if I keep on using his reading glass. I know and I agree with him but the stubborn side of me, just don't want to. haha..

i have had to wear glasses since elementary school! i think like 5th grade maybe before! but i got contacts in 6th grade and i have been wearing them ever since! alot of people in my family wear glasses or have contacts. I honestly wish that i could have 20/20 vision without glasses or contacts because after awhile you just get tired of messing with it all. It gets so expensive. Like 2 weeks ago i went to the dr and i had to pay 95.00 for a 6 months supply of contacts i havnt gotten my glasses updated yet becasue i cant afford it!