I was blind, but now I see

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People meters away have faces
- I was shocked to learn how far away people can read and recognize my face. Much was explained that day.
  
  "Wait. I can see where they're looking at from this far away. That means... Oh man."
- Yeah, I was so blind I didn't know what my parents faces looked like. I got glasses around 12ish. My mother still enjoys the story that when I first got them put on I exclaimed "wow mom, you're so pretty!"

Is the leaves thing common for people who get glasses for the first time? That was the most intense sight for me at 25 years old, was seeing the individual leaves on a tree like 50 feet away
- Yes. Going from thinking “yeah, that’s a tree ofc” to talking like a paid shill to everyone I know “I CAN SEE EACH LEAF!!! ITS LIKE I’M SEEING IN HD”
  
  Lmao like we're selling snake oil
- For me it wasnt be cause I had heard that so many times from others before I started regularly wearing them. I think for me it was seeing how bad a bunch of my old games actually look. I can still take em off and make em look good again
  
  Ol' CRT eyes here

I remember being absolutely blown away that you could see planes in the sky
- Or that teachers writing on the board were actually writing/drawing stuff and not pantomiming in from of the board

The weirdest thing that happened to me when I got my glasses was that it felt like I was going to hit them with the food I was eating, I was 15 at the time
- I'm not sure if this is a quirk of perspective or an admission that you shove your face too far in your food but it's funny either way.
  
  Heck it could be a weird mental thing from too many first person video games

I was 15 when I first got my glasses. I walked out of the opticians to the bus stop and was stunned that I could actually see and READ the number of the bus approaching from 500 yards away and not when it arrived at the stop.

I found out I needed glass when I tried my friend's glasses for fun and saw better with them. Twas very depressing actually, realizing I've seen stuff wrong for so many years. Things is I only have -1, so it's not bad enough to significantly affect daily life, tho it is significant enough in how I experience views. Now when I travel I always have a pair with me for whenever I truly want to enjoy the sight of something. Otherwise I avoid my glasses like the plague.
- Also -1 here. I was convinced throughout my studies that my university was being super cheap on the projectors, getting always some shitty, soft ones. Ranted about it the whole time. Wish it was the beamers.
  
  My third grade teacher was getting mad at me for several weeks for reading my own books in class until she asked me WHY I suddenly wasn't paying attention and I told her it was because I couldn't see the board.
  I'm still curious about what exactly went through her head in that moment because her facial expression was wild. Some combination of "I'm sorry for assuming" and "this fucking kid..." I have to assume.
- This is similar to me. My mom was even grumpy with me but I was like how was I supposed to know. It's gotten worse now and I actually need them to see small text on screens but I can still function without them. I wear them so my vision doesn't get worse from straining though.
- Very similar story here, when I finally had glasses it was so weird to realise that stars aren't blurry, and it's in fact normal to be able to see individual leaves on trees, but I never noticed I needed them for many years, because everyday life wasn't affected for me.
  
  Yea... The sky in general is completely different. Knowing that clouds are actually sharp and don't look like cotton candy was quite a shock. Like all those old paintings make soo much more sense now.

One of the really hard habits to break was always looking at my feet when walking
It was primarily because seeing further than that was pretty rough
Though the leaves being back on the trees was pretty great too

I paid for eye insurance when I first landed a "real" job that has benefits and got an eye check up and the optometrist was like "you're just barely off from 20/20, not really even a prescription" and i was like oh geez what a waste of time.
And then I put on the pair of glasses and it was like this. Just every tree looked magical.
- So what are you saying? Even with pretty good vision it makes a massive difference?
  
  well, I can only speak from my own experience. I forget the exact prescription but my eyes were also slightly off so one was worse than the other and neither was perfect.
  Idk if it's just that significant or if it's having them align but it made tree leaves just look individual and pop for me. I was staring at every tree and saying how they look so cool and it was only later that I learned this common tree meme among people who get glasses.
  
  The lenses might have had good coatings which helps cut haze a bit.

Lol me @ 7 years old

I remember really, really wanting glasses because I thought they were cool. I thought it was cool to see two "different" worlds. I even tried to lie on a eye exam.
Well, ask and you shall receive I guess.

It was like getting a new GPU for your computer and you can finally max out the graphics settings.
- There's nothing more satisfying than reinstalling a game and cranking all those sliders to max.

I was 5, don't remember, but my parents clued in asking me about a dog at the park. "Uh... doggy...?"

I still don't like wearing my glasses. Sometimes I just use the pinhole method just so I don't have to wear them. I'm not super blind, just near sighted. I can get about my day without them most of the time. I just find them way to distracting.
- Same for me. I don't like how I look with them and they get in the way. But I have to admit that they are a huge help for reading street signs or recognizing people from far away... But when I'm not outdoors, I really don't like to wear them.

Do we have a Chicken Thoughts community here on Lemmy?

The fucking moon and Stars the First time i looked at the nightsky after i got my glasses ... I dont remember when or where it was, but i still remember the feeling
- Yeah.. I lost them a while ago, my eyesight is dropping very quickly

Reminds me of an interview with Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO fame. The day he got glasses, he started drawing the tree branches he saw for the first time. His teacher said he drew trees better than she did, and that's why he draws every day!

... the snowflakes glisten on the tree...

at what point should one have laughed?

That's two fetishizions of glasses I've seen in the past 15 minutes why
- ?
- Hello!
  The joke is that people (or more likely kids) usually don't want glasses until they get them and can now see.
  I have no idea how you even got to your conclusion!
  
  Because I saw another post about glasses and flirting a few minutes before this one

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