I hate wearing glasses
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63846)
United States
March 18, 2025 6:51pm CST
Yes, I really do. In 7th grade I just could not see the black (green) board. This really wasn't new, but it finally got bad enough I was given glasses. And they gave me headaches... yes, but not because of the vision, because of the weight of the frame and lenses on my nose and ears.
The next time I got a change in them, I got smaller lenses and as light weight a frame as I could find. It was a bit better, but not great. This was in the days before light weight plastics for lenses.
Back then I needed them to see distances. Movies, school, TV, if I didn't get to sit close enough to it. We aren't talking a few inches, it was more like 4 feet. If I sat to the side it was fine. And I got adjusted to watching further away. Not movie theater further, but other side of a room.
Then, in my mid-late 40s I didn't need them anymore!
And I got into my mid-late 50s and I couldn't see close anymore. 
So, I still mostly see well enough to drive, if I'm not tired, and I wear sunglasses, so, still glasses.
I went to an ENT (Ears, Nose and Throat) doctor for something else. He couldn't figure out why I was having the problem I was having. And then, I don't know, I told him how glasses, between pressing on my nose and ears gave me headaches. I showed him how I wouldn't put the ear pieces on my ears, just let them grip the side of my head above them. And... I learned I have 'shallow sinuses.'
There isn't much I can do with the nose piece, but I still don't let the arms rest on the top of my ears. In fact, I was looking to get new frames and the guy saw the arms resting above my ears and he reached over and shoved them down on them. I was not happy, and told him I was not going to ever have them like that.
So, this leads up to just a little while ago. I have my regular glasses on and there is something on the lens in the middle of my vision. Beside me I have a more powerful pair of glasses that I call my 'crafting glasses.' I couldn't figure out what was on my lens, so I grabbed my crafting glasses and found the... thing... on my lens. And then I scraped it off. - With a finger nail, not something that would scratch the lens!
So, do you have something you have to have that you just hate, for whatever reason?
Oh, and I have a new script to take to the glasses place... but the doctor says my eyes are still good and the cataract is only medium sized, so... no need to do anything yet.
And I got into my mid-late 50s and I couldn't see close anymore.
So, I still mostly see well enough to drive, if I'm not tired, and I wear sunglasses, so, still glasses.
I went to an ENT (Ears, Nose and Throat) doctor for something else. He couldn't figure out why I was having the problem I was having. And then, I don't know, I told him how glasses, between pressing on my nose and ears gave me headaches. I showed him how I wouldn't put the ear pieces on my ears, just let them grip the side of my head above them. And... I learned I have 'shallow sinuses.'
There isn't much I can do with the nose piece, but I still don't let the arms rest on the top of my ears. In fact, I was looking to get new frames and the guy saw the arms resting above my ears and he reached over and shoved them down on them. I was not happy, and told him I was not going to ever have them like that.
So, this leads up to just a little while ago. I have my regular glasses on and there is something on the lens in the middle of my vision. Beside me I have a more powerful pair of glasses that I call my 'crafting glasses.' I couldn't figure out what was on my lens, so I grabbed my crafting glasses and found the... thing... on my lens. And then I scraped it off. - With a finger nail, not something that would scratch the lens!
So, do you have something you have to have that you just hate, for whatever reason?
Oh, and I have a new script to take to the glasses place... but the doctor says my eyes are still good and the cataract is only medium sized, so... no need to do anything yet.9 people like this
7 responses
@DaddyEvil (146420)
• United States
19 Mar
I got my first glasses in my early twenties. Everything was blurry unless I was within a few feet of it. Apparently, I had been memorizing what colors other people were wearing every day so I could tell who was who at a distance. 
I could finally see tree leaves without being close to the trees. I could always see a vehicle in the distance but couldn't tell if it was a car, truck or whatever until it was really close to me.
I don't like wearing glasses but need them if I'm driving... I don't bother wearing them otherwise.
The eye specialist says I'm getting cataracts but they aren't bad enough to need surgery yet.
I could finally see tree leaves without being close to the trees. I could always see a vehicle in the distance but couldn't tell if it was a car, truck or whatever until it was really close to me.
I don't like wearing glasses but need them if I'm driving... I don't bother wearing them otherwise.
The eye specialist says I'm getting cataracts but they aren't bad enough to need surgery yet.4 people like this
@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
That's pretty late, you must of spoofed the license to pass the test (I did that with my right eye a couple of years ago, I remembered from the left one.) I really don't have much depth perception. However, because this has always been a problem, I am aware of how large something is, and if it is getting larger too fast! I have glasses for driving, because if I'm tired, or it is dark, my eyes need the boost. However, I just can't read things unless they are quite large, I broke down and got my first readers when I realized my arm was just too short... at about 55 or 56.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
@DaddyEvil Texas doesn't have apples falling on vision tests... I can believe how tiny a person can write, my guy friend used to write so small, even I, before I needed reading glasses, could barely see it. I think he's not seeing that small anymore because he is writing above microscopic these days. He is only 18 months younger than I am. And when we first met that is a funny story on its own. Don't know that I've ever posted about it...
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@DaddyEvil (146420)
• United States
19 Mar
@ElicBxn I didn't have any trouble passing my driver's test and didn't have a problem with the vision part until just before I got glasses. I guessed on where the apple was falling on the test that time and then got my vision checked and bought glasses.
I never had a problem reading and writing. You wouldn't believe how tiny I write. I've had teachers and bosses tell me to write larger because they couldn't see well enough to read what I wrote. I print smaller than standard text size.
I don't drive after dark. I just can't see anything unless it's lit up. Once in a while my daughter pressures me to drive after dark. I finally told her to either make her appointments at a time when it will still be light outside when her appointment is done or she can walk to and from her appointments. She likes to go as late in the day as they will let her and I prefer going as early in the day as I can get so I can see going and coming home from an appointment.
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@GardenGerty (163179)
• United States
19 Mar
I got glasses at 5 years old. I like larger lenses, but yes, they are heavy. I have at least one cataract beginning, but it will be a while until it needs to be removed. I do not like the inserts I wear in my shoes.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
I've known a lot of people who got glasses young. My wife, because her mom and dad didn't think going to the doctor was important, unless not going would stop something, like going to school... So, she was about 5 or 6 when she was finally diagnosed with her vision, and you remember she preferred being called 'blind.' (I talked about some of them under Lenore Plassman comment.)
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@BarBaraPrz (49392)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Mar
I got my first pair of glasses in grade 6. I got contacts somewhere around 1978 or 9 but didn't find them comfortable. So I stopped using them. I'd prefer to not have to wear glasses, but I like being able to see somewhat better than without them. Unfortunately, there are no glasses that correct for macular degeneration, and same as you, eye doctors don't seem to think my cataracts are "that bad yet" to do anything about.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
Are you getting those macular degeneration shots? My sister-in-law's mother got them for years.
I tried contacts too, but even though normally my allergies don't affect my eyes, with the contacts in they did. Oh, and I was teaching horse riding... not doing my eyes much good with the dust.
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@BarBaraPrz (49392)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Mar
@ElicBxn No, I have the dry type of macular degeneration. The shots are for the wet kind.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
@BarBaraPrz I see, I did know there were two kinds, but that is about it.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
A whole lot of years ago, Connie volunteered to do Christmas cards for some animal rescue group. We went over to the family's place because at least 3 of us worked full time. The couple had a tot they had glasses on to try and correct her lazy eye instead of having to do surgery. The child had been in for quite some time, since she wasn't yanking them off.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
I hope so too.
My sister wore glasses for a while after her eye surgery at 3 or 4. They were trying to correct her lazy eye. She lost them before going to kindergarten.
Having said that, I met a gal in high school who got her first pair about 5 and realized that the green stuff on trees were individual things. It was how she knew it was time for new glasses when she couldn't see the leaves.
I had a friend, I met her off and on in the local science fiction community, and then my future wife lived with her for 6 years before she moved in with me. She had a premature birth and while they didn't destroy her eyes with oxygen, they didn't do her eyes a lot of good. She honestly couldn't see as well as my wife without her glasses, but they were correctable. I understand she had glasses very young as well.
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
19 Mar
@sallypup yes it is. My sister could see just fine with the lazy eye, it was just the one went off to play somewhere else and the brain said... "Nope, not looking at that," and ignored the information from that eye. She had her first surgery then when she was in elementary school Mom had to go in to one of her teachers who had sent a note home about it, to explain she didn't control it. If the teacher didn't stop complaining about it, Mom would have to go up the ladder. She shut up. That teacher should've never gotten a teaching certificate. When my sister was in 12th grade, which meant I was out of college, she had her second surgery on the eye. That fixed it. Now, after her first surgery she had to do exercises to make sure her brain could listen to that eye so she didn't lose most of the vision out of it like Mom did. Oh, and after the surgery in 1972 she discovered the right eye wandered, just not as much.
@sallypup (63926)
• Centralia, Washington
19 Mar
@ElicBxn My daughter had the lazy eye going, too. She was about three when she got her first glasses. It was a heart thing for us parents- she looked up at the night sky and asked what is that? I looked up and in that second, realized she had gotten along with very little sight. She had just seen the moon for the first time. Oh my heart. And my husband. The oxygen in the incubator thing- he was a premature baby. He lost an eye to that. Doctors didn't know better in those days. Later, when hubby was five, a cousin and he were playing rough house and he lost the sight in the other eye. His blindness did not stop him from going on to university- twice. Engineering, did not get him work due to discrimination, and finally a Masters degree in adult education did, after much hard searching, snag him a social worker position. Life is a total bear at times.
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@Deepizzaguy (108968)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Mar
I do not like wearing glasses either due to having trouble reading small print on a piece of paper or internet pages..
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@ElicBxn (63846)
• United States
20 Mar
@Deepizzaguy good grief! I really must be getting old to leave out 'old' in that!
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