As we go blind....

[AdoreroDio]

I was looking at the Lit Net Photo Album and many people commented on how many Lit Netters wear glasses. I must admit I have to wear glasses. There are many theories to why this is....
I came up with a few questions related to this subject.....

If someone wears glasses does that automatically make them considered to be smart? or nerdy?

If you wear glasses, what are they for (distance or near) and do you know what caused you to need them?

Is the reason that many Lit Netters wear glasses that they stare at the computer for too long?

What do you think?

I wear glasses, and most people say I am somewhat intelligent but hat is debatable. I have to wear glasses for distance because I read so many books that my eyes weakened in distance and strengthened the near vision. I have perfect reading vision because of this. ( and no this isn't a joke that is the actual reason my eye doctor told me, lol)

[Themis]

I can assure you, I don't wear glasses because of staring at the computer screen for too long. Though, it really does strain one's eyes, looking at the screen.

How one looks with glasses, depends a lot on the type of glasses. I know I have a pair where my brother once said it looked good and my father always comments on how "stern" it makes me look.

My glasses, I wear because I'm practically blind without them. I've worn them since I was five years old, first I needed them because I was hyperopic (farsighted), now I'm myopic (short-sighted).

[AdoreroDio]

I only just recently started to need glasses, about two years ago, and yet I am already practically lost without them. My eyesight has gotten dramatically worse over the last three years, and it makes me sad to picture how I'll be when I'm in my thirties or forties...or even twenties for that matter (I'm only 16).

All my glasses have either made me look older or smarter, never really nerdy though.

[Logos]

I don't pretend to be smart I have to wear them because it's an inherited thing, and because I do so much work on computers. I've got bi-focal reading glasses, and I have a pair of slightly tinted glasses if I'm doing a lot of work on the comp, it really helps reduce eye strain and attendant headaches

[Shalot]

I don't pretend to be smart I have to wear them because it's an inherited thing, and because I do so much work on computers. I've got bi-focal reading glasses, and I have a pair of slightly tinted glasses if I'm doing a lot of work on the comp, it really helps reduce eye strain and attendant headaches

Really? Tinted glasses prevent eyestrain? I have transitions. The pair I had before eventually stopped changing back to clear again and i had funky looking pervo tinted lenses indoors. But then I got some new glasses with the no glare coating. And those began to bug me so the next pair I got were neither transitions nor no-glare. And now I am back to transitions.

now I can tell myself that my transitions also prevent eyestrain. Yay transitions. no more fumbling for sunglasses.

Once, I went to the beach and forgot to bring my regular glasses and had to wear sunglasses the whole time (even at night at restaurants and when we went to the amusement park).

But back to the poll - I am just flat-out helpless without my glasses.

[Virgil]

I voted for bi-focals, but actually they are progressives, which is similar except there is no line that separates the two parts but a gradual transition. This is my first year with progressives. It was hard to get used to progressives. It took me a couple of months. Since high school I've had glasses for near sightedness. When you hit your mid forties you wind up needing both types. I'm getting old. I've never want to have the trouble of contacts. I'm not good looking to begin with, so what more harm could glasses do.

[Bakiryu]

Mostly everyone in my family wears glasses but our intelligence is debatable . I had to wear classes as a small child (I didn't ) because of (CAN'T THINK OF CORRECT TERM!) a problem where my left eye when to the right when I stared at something. I had pretty much perfect vision. Then I don't know how, I lost all my vision. I can only see a hand away from my face. yet I have perfect night and reading vision. It doesn't make me smart, just a ditz

[Oniw17]

I don't wear glasses; I have 20/12 vision in both eyes.

Mostly everyone in my family wears glasses but our intelligence is debatable . I had to wear classes as a small child (I didn't ) because of (CAN'T THINK OF CORRECT TERM!) a problem where my left eye when to the right when I stared at something.

Maybe a lazy eye? Though they usually treat that with an eye patch as opposed to glasses. So I can't think of what you're talking about either.

[AdoreroDio]

I once had transitions, loved them except for the fact whenever I wwalked inside everything was black for a minute or two. When I didn't have them anymore my eyes were ultra sensitive to the sun and got head aches easily. I plan on never getting transitions again.

Bakiryu- My best friend has that problem, though it's not a lazy eye, and it is corrected with glasses so I'll ask him tomorrow what it's called.

[Bakiryu]

Bakiryu- My best friend has that problem, though it's not a lazy eye, and it is corrected with glasses so I'll ask him tomorrow what it's called.

My mum says it's called extravismo, I think in english is something like extravism or so?

Maybe a lazy eye?

Nope, not a lazy eye, you can't really see it right now unless, I don't know, you decide to stare into my eyes for 10 min and i stare back.

[Pensive]

I don't wear glasses. My eye-side was quite good the last time I got it checked but I feel if I would keep on having the headaches I have, things might change... (am starting having pressure upon them)

[Scheherazade]

a problem where my left eye when to the right when I stared at something.

Squint?

[Granny5]

I have worn glasses since I was 5. I had a cataract removed then from my right eye. Back then, there was no implants to replace the lens so I don't see out of my right eye as long as my left eye is open. There is just enough vision to keep my eye from discoloring. It does drift off sometimes, especially when I've very tired. I had perfect vision in my left eye till I got olded. But I wore glasses to protect my left eye. They were non corrective glass. Now I have progressive bifocals. It took me longer to get used to the progressives than it did the lined bifocals.

[Weisinheimer]

If someone wears glasses does that automatically make them considered to be smart? or nerdy?

If you wear glasses, what are they for (distance or near) and do you know what caused you to need them?

Is the reason that many Lit Netters wear glasses that they stare at the computer for too long?

What do you think?

I think glasses give some people an intelligent or nerdy look, depending on the person and the glasses. My brothers and I always joke about ppl w/ glasses being smarter, but we're not serious of course. But there could be something about the type of people who choose glasses over contacts? Maybe nerds tend to like glasses for some reason? I don't know.
I'm farsighted. I've had to wear glasses since I was 6 so it's definitely not because of staring at a computer screen. I tried contacts for a bit when I was 11 or 12, but I didn't like them.

[CdnReader]

Like Virgil and Granny, I wear progressives. My first pair were awful, and I couldn't get used to them. My optician recommended a separate pair of reading glasses, and that was the perfect solution for me. I just got my second pair of progressives and they're fantastic! Apparently the "better" lenses (supposedly higher quality, and DEFINITELY WAY MORE EXPENSIVE!) are easier to use, have a wider field of vision, and I have definitely found that to be the case. However, since I have my nose in a book for most of my waking hours (LOL!), I still find that my reading glasses are better for long stretches of close-up work, and much more restful for my eyes.