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Brittany ([personal profile] rocknload) wrote2009-09-26 05:40 pm
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I sometimes get sort of bitchy when people complain about their glasses. I actually feel bad about this, because not being able to see sucks all around, but I can't always help it, and suddenly I realized I could use THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY to demonstrate why. This is a charming photograph of some trees, and how I suspect it'd look to people who can actually see.

This is how the photograph looks to most people I hear bitching about their glasses, their contacts, or their inability to see the classroom whiteboard, I know because usually their uncorrected vision is around the same as my corrected vision right now. These are the people who sometimes go, "Oh, I forgot to bring my glasses to school today! Haha!" I sometimes hate these people.

And this is how things look for me. I know it's not that bad, -7.00 is considered severe but I think myopia can get to like, -20.00 or some outrageously high number. BUT IT STILL SUCKS. I just had to go back to the doctor to rule out a degenerative eye disorder, because your eyes are supposed to stop getting worse by the time you're twenty or so, but mine aren't and I need a new prescription and now reading glasses. I'm sort of worried that my eyes are going to get worse and worse for my whole life and in a decade I'll have serious problems rather than the constant inconvenience my vision causes me now. It already affects pretty much every aspect of my life, what if it got worse, man.

Apparently a lot of people think that glasses make your eyes worse and if you didn't wear them, you would be fine! Oh, gee, thanks for that. Clearly I am doing this to myself and if I would only voluntarily shoulder a disability -- because if I didn't wear my glasses I'd be freaking disabled, there's no other way to put it -- I'd actually be cured! Awesome.

[identity profile] sunsetsred.livejournal.com 2009-09-27 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
I was going to say how outrageously clear the 3rd one was, then I realized you meant the PHOTOGRAPH and not in actual real life. Cuz something THAT far away would be like. One massive blob at best.

IDK, most people I know who bitch about their site are in that 3rd category along with you, but I think I just hang out with people who are as blind as me.

...That seeing.org site would be a lot more useful if I could possibly even distinguish letters and words on it without glasses.

[identity profile] sunsetsred.livejournal.com 2009-09-27 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
...sight. not site. well, not the first time.
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[identity profile] rocknload.livejournal.com 2009-09-27 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
IT WAS A VAGUE REPRESENTATION I DID TO SHOW MY FAMILY HOW HORRIBLY I SEE SHIT because obviously if that'd be real life the closer stuff would be maybe that clear and the far away stuff would be basically nonexistent like you said I JUST HIT THE BLUR TOOL ON PHOTOSHOP MANY MANY TIMES.

Apparently the principle behind that site and others like that is that if you have glasses you must stop using them. Then you ... I don't even know, man. I'd have to quit school and my job without my glasses! I can't even shower, man!

Oh, and people who hang out on the Internet are more likely to be blind, IT IS PROVEN BY SCIENCE. No, seriously, there's a correlation between people of the geeky persuasion and prescription eyewear.