My new glasses are coming soon :)

Now I won't be as blind as a blindfolded grandmother inside a dark cave at night!

Everytime I code, my nose practically touches the screen, because even my mom's old glasses don't really help.

I can barley use Devrantron because of my blindness, but at least I can see well on mobile.

If you are wondering how my old ones broke, well, my little sister sat on them. That little demon, I love her, but she's pure evil.

Oh, and she did it on purpose btw. I asked her why and she said she wanted to know how it feels like to sit on glasses. She's not crazy, she's 6 years old lol.

Glad to hear that. I am still on blind mode after broking my last one. But I have farsightedness. So I only have trouble when walking at night. 😁

And your sister is gonna be a scientist 😳

Can't you ask for some contact lenses while you wait? I was once offered some lenses for a month to try out. I hated it. Really hated it. But it could be a temporary solution.

@CurseMeSlowly or a serious hacker, if she's like her big sister. @Michelle I'm remembering your previous rant about trying to break a linux vm.

@CurseMeSlowly
Have you been to the eye doctor yet? I would die if I was farsighted and couldn't read books :)

I'm nearsighted so my teachers think I'm on drugs because of how I keep squinting.

Also, I wish she would, but I feel like she would be an entertainer. She sings and dances all the time. Even when in public, it's embarrassing, but I try not to stop her from having fun with it.

@shellbug
My mom won't permit me to wear contacts. She said it'll damage my eyes.

I recall the rant you are referring to. I was just having fun with it. Hopefully my interests pass on to my sister, but I doubt it :)

@Michelle I couldn't go without my glasses lol. I get intense headaches and can't legally drive without them. (I wouldn't drive because I'd probably kill me or someone else without them.)

@Michelle everyone sings and dances when they're young. It's too soon to know how she'll be when she's older.

For me everything is blurred if I don't have my glasses. I can still walk around, but I can't recognise anyone unless I'm almost kissing them.

Once I forgot where I left my glasses and I was alone. I freaked out so bad that I froze in place until I thought that they were probably on my bed somewhere and yeah, there they were.

@shellbug @Michelle wow I have two brothers. We have always wanted such a energetic fun little sister 😆

I can read books. I haven't been to eye doctor yet 😁 I can see for like 2 feet well. More than 2 feet, all blurry to me 🤣

And I am afraid of anything physically touching my eyes. 😓 So big fat yes to your mom regarding contact lenses.

@jhh2450
Wow really? You must have a really high prescription :/

@shellbug
I feel your pain, but when I loose my glasses it's over for me.
I can't find them unless I'm wearing them.

I remember when I discovered that I needed glasses. I was on 2nd grade and I was sitting at the back of the class, and no matter how hard I tried seeing, the blackboard was always completely black to me. I had to copy everything from my classmate sitting next to me. Until one day she complained to the teacher, and the teacher told my mom. Damn, did I thought I was in trouble. My mom took me to the Ophthalmologist and some time after I had my first pair of glasses. I don't remember that moment, but my mom says I was looking at everything, examining every little detail I could now see. I still do that whenever I get new glasses.

@CurseMeSlowly I only see one feet away from my nose. Beyond that everything's blurred.

@CurseMeSlowly
My sister is extremely energetic. It's fun and most of the time I can't keep up with her. My younger brother is also energetic, sometimes I envy their energy haha.

That's good. At least you're able to read books :)

I guess so. Contacts are also a bit scary. I mean, onr wrong move and I might blind myself.

@Michelle Yea. The eye doctor loudly said "Oh my God he's never had glasses before?" when he first read my chart. I think I'm like 20/60? Idk I haven't been in over a year.

@shellbug
Blackboard? How old are you, if you don't mind me asking haha. I would have assumed blackboards are old, since I haven't seen one before.

I only discovered I needed glasses in 7th grade, when I was 12. The teacher told me I needed glasses, but I insisted my vision was fine. When my mom took me to the eye doctor, that's when I realized how bad my vision was.

I suppose the source of my bad vision was all those years of reading in the dark.

How many dioptries do you need?
I have -6 dioptries.

@jhh2450
Oh, you must be careful with your glasses then, considering how high your prescription is.

I honesly have no idea what mine is. My eye doctor won't tell me for some reason. He keeps saying, "Maybe later."

All I know is that my prescription got higher, but he still didn't tell me what it is.

@stop
My apologies, I have no idea what you are talking about. :(

@Michelle I'm almost 30. Thank you for making me feel old. 😁

I lived the transition from blackboards to whiteboards. I still had some pieces of stolen chalk, but threw them away earlier this year.

I saw teachers stop complaining about chalk running out and start complaining about empty/dry pens. 😂

@Michelle how bad you see is measured in dioptries (I don't know if that is right in English, and Google translate isn't helping). Next time you see the eye doctor ask about it. 😉 I have 5 dioptries.

@shellbug
Even though, you're 14 years older than me, it isn't *that* old lol.

I wonder how the chalk board era is like, but I'm sure the white board era is better. :)

@shellbug
Ah, so it's similar to a prescription in a way? Thanks!

@Michelle maybe here in Portugal we had blackboards longer than in the US.

What it was like: chalk dust everywhere, going to board meant returning with your fingers white, sometimes chalk pieces would break and jump and hit you in the fucking eye, when it ran out/got stolen (**whistles**) the teacher had to wait for an assistant to bring more. But you could do some awesome drawings with it.

@Michelle why won't your doctor tell you your prescription? That doesn't make any sense. Is he/she afraid you get your glasses somewhere else?

@shellbug not just drawing. Lots of mischievous deeds has been done with chalk 😂

Smashed it and pretend doing cocaine.

Rub our palms with chalk and make masterful kungfu moves.

Bully each other by powdering with chalk, to clothes, to body parts, to hair.

Etc 😂

@shellbug
Ooh, sounds like fun... Thanks for the little "lesson." :)

@Michelle Oh yea. I'm very careful with them (kinda), especially since I'm at college now. But I do the major no-no and sleep with them on lol

It'd be a huge pain in the ass to get me to my eye doctor that's 2 hours away from here when I can't drive. (Someone would have to pick me up, take me to the eye doctor, and then get me back to school.)

@jhh2450
Oh shit seriously?? I undwrstand that you fall asleep by accident, but try to take them off, they might break :(

Good luck if they ever break. It'll be hard to find someone to drive you, not to mention, glasses take weeks to arrive.

@CurseMeSlowly damn, I had forgotten about that cocaine trick. 😂 I never did that kungfu thing, tho. Now I feel I missed out. 🙁

@Michelle no problem. 😉

@jhh2450 you sleep with your glasses on? They always wake me up when I fall asleep with them. Don't they hurt you?

@shellbug and speaking about sleep, once again here I am at 3am browsing devrant. Funny that I'm more active here when I can't sleep.

@shellbug I sleep hard.
@Michelle It never takes weeks for me lol. Like 3 days tops.

I like to watch TV to fall asleep, and I can't see my tv without them on. But I do sleep in a propped up position, so it's a bit safer than it sounds

@jhh2450 I usually fall asleep playing on my phone (unless I decide to open devrant instead) and I don't need glasses for that.

@shellbug
You should head off to bed :)

@Michelle that's where I've been the last six hours... 😞

@Dimmerworld
I'm Michelle on SL. You probably won't remember me, since it's been a while.

@shellbug
You were online the entire time.

Niiice, enjoy them! I'm going to get new ones this weekend. Current ones are fine but need a tiny prescription bump and are scratched and smudged permanently so it's hard to see straight without moving my head up or down first

@TheCapeGreek
Ouch. I wonder what made them like that :/
At least you are getting new ones tho! :)

@Michelle no clue actually. I've been a bit rough with them so the odd scratch makes sense but don't know about the rest.

@TheCapeGreek
Hopefully you treat your new glasses well.

@Michelle I'm paying out of my own pocket this time, so yeah haha! What kind of frame are you getting? I'm going to be getting one of those rounded square-ish ones that hipsters with beards get.

@TheCapeGreek Like this? That's what I'm getting when I get new ones lol

@jhh2450 Yeah exactly! After a bit of googling on shapes that match facial structures, I see that those match mine the best.

Try www.eyebuydirect.com. If you have your prescription strength, you can order custom glasses for under $30. Completely worth every penny. I only know this because my wife sat on her last pair and our insurance was out...

@CurseMeSlowly Contacts are not physically touching your eyes, they're "swimming" on them between a contact lense and your eye are your tears 😂

@Michelle @shellbug never had whiteboards in school, I only had chalkboards for years and then in the last years we had an electronic board and I'm 20 in less than a month

@Michelle don't you get a paper with your dioptries? How does your optician know what he has to put in your glasses?

@theNox stop giving me nightmares 😧

@CurseMeSlowly you know what's scary? When you can't take out your contact lense for some reason and think it'll be stuck there forever (thankfully this didn't happen to me too often yet)

@theNox ewwwwwwwww ewwwwwwwwwww 😑

@Michelle @shellbug in Romania blackboards are still pretty common, but I personally like whiteboards more.

@CurseMeSlowly my classmates mostly did the powdering chalk on stuff thing.

@TheCapeGreek @jhh2450
Those are also the same ones I'm getting :D

@theNox
No, he doesn't. He probably gives it to my mom, but I never saw my mom leave the eye doctor with a paper in her hands.

Sometimes I sleep with my glasses on because sometimes I'm afraid I'll be blinded in my dreams if I didn't wear them.

/not joke /true story

@shashwatsh that doesn't even make sense

@theNox what I meant is sometimes I'm afraid that I would be blinded in my dreams if I didn't keep my glasses on while sleeping.
It really stresses me out :D

@shashwatsh
That's not what she meant. She understood what you said. She's simply saying it's an irrational fear

@Michelle hehe, English is not my first language I'm always afraid I'll mess it up.

@shashwatsh
Worry not. You speak English rather well.

@shashwatsh yup I understood what you said

@shashwatsh I actually had a recurring dream like what you described when I was a teenager. But it wouldn't stop me from sleeping without glasses and it eventually went away.

I love this thread btw.

Four eyed ranters unite! 👓💪