How is your vision?
 

My vision has changed since 2019. I have an appointment to get my eyes checked in a couple of weeks. Not a big change since I passed the drivers license test, but it's annoying.


All my local eye exam places are booked, so I went with America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses. It's cheap, but I'm worried they might burn my retinas during the exam.


What issue does it take for you to get an eye exam?

There's nothing wrong with my eye. This one just has no pigment. I'm what you call a partial ocular albino, but I'm fine with it. I have perfect 20/20 vision with both eyes.

I see great near blurry far.

I'm the same way nut. The far blurry sucks. Ugh.

Mine went to shit about 12 years ago. I have to wear Walmart reading glasses to drive. I've had 3 pairs of prescription glasses and they're no better that a pair of ****ing $8.88 walmart glasses.

I got a pair of readers last year.

As of the last year or so....

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It's amazing. I can see two gnats sucking each other off in a dust bowl.

....when my contact lenses are in. Without them, my vision is total shit. I was born nearsighted. I played 2 full years of little league baseball and couldn't hit the god damn baseball. Then my 5th grade teacher finally figured out I was nearsighted. I got glasses before the very last game of the season. Playoff game. My first at-bat and I ripped a single up the middle. Turns out vision is pretty important to hitting a baseball. I quit baseball after that season and got into basketball. I wonder how much more fun it would've been to play while being able to see...

Oh yeah. I am stuck with readers too. What a pain.

Didn't realize I was picking up fat chicks at the bar.

I’m still like 20/25 or something. Not worth correcting according to the dr.

When I was younger my eyes didn’t coordinate so I didn’t have depth perception. In 8th grade I went to an eye doctor (in Wichita - 5 hours away) who was surprised I could function. Most kids come see him when they can’t read shit. Apparently I’m too goddamned stubborn and just shut the ****ing non-dominant eye off and made up my own depth perception. Because **** you that’s why.

Not advisable though. I could drive tractor way straighter after the therapy and I got better at basketball. That correlation is a little looser because I ****ing sucked and didn’t really grow into my body until after that. Presumably there was a corresponding improvement in my capacity to drive cars, which is horrifying because mom made me drive to Wichita most of the time. But whatever, not dead.

That's really interesting. A dominant eye when young normally leads to a lazy eye.

When I was in 8th grade, I got a new backpack for school. But it had these pieces of material on the zippers that I didn't like. I used an icepick to remove them since they were knotted. I slipped with the icepick, and accidentally hit myself in the right eye with the tip. There was a 1/4" cut in the white part of my eye right below the retina. Had to be sedated and get stiches on my eyeball. It resulted in me becoming right eye dominant. Fortunately it was my shooting eye.

Since it pierced multiple layers surrounding my eyeball, it messed up the pressure in my eye and eventually gave me glaucoma. Along with a bunch of squiggly material over my right eye lens that looks like little worms swimming around when I move my eye. Distracting at times, but the brain does a good job of erasing stuff from your vision that you don't need. Sometimes I will purposely close my right eye for a few hours just to make my lazy ass left eye work harder...

This is basically what I see in my right eye when I look at the sky. Except my squiggly is in the shape of the western African coastline.

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If the distance is from my chair to the computer screen, I see great and don't need glasses. If it's closer than that, I need glasses. If it's farther than that, I need glasses. I think I may have spent too much time in front of a computer.