How come young people with glasses are generally nicer?

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I say ''youngsters'' because it is more common in elderly people and middle-aged people to wear glasses, but I am talking about young people here, probably from childhood to mid-30s. I have never got picked on by anyone with glasses on at school, and those who did wear glasses always seemed to have a certain niceness to them, and they had a soft spot for me too. I know people without glasses were nice too, but those who wore glasses seem to have this ''nice'' vibe, and theyr niceness came out too.

Even now when I see young people (especially girls) in glasses, they seem to have this kind look about them, and I seem to relax more when I'm near them and don't feel as self-conscious as I normally do when standing near other young girls. I don't even know if it's true - maybe some Aspies here got bullied by someone in glasses or knows a nasty type of person who wears glasses, but to me it seems every young person who I met wearing glasses all seem to have a serious, mature, kind way about their characteristics.

My cousin knows a family where the dad and the 3 daughters all wear glasses, and they are really nice, kind people who you could trust. (They're not Aspies or anything).

I don't wear glasses myself, but I was just wondering if anyone else thought this in people who wear glasses, or is it just me?

They probably see themselves lower on some social ladder or something, and therefore feel they have to be nice. I've noticed that when people stop wearing glasses (corrective surgery/contacts) they often become more like jerkwads.

Perhaps carrying a miniature bicycle on one's face is a humbling experience. I wouldn't know. I was both nice and bullied before I got my glasses. I got mine at the age of eight.

Just about all as*holes tend to be people who are very concerned with their image and wouldn't dare put on a pair of glasses due to it decreasing their sex appeal (some people will say glasses increase sex appeal but those tend to be the types of people that can't be taken advantage of as easily and are therefore of little interest to as*holes). They're also people who are less likely to develop visual problems in the first place due to being less likely to spend their time reading or staring at a computer or doing anything that won't help them have more sex.

/cynicism

I wear glasses and I can be nice.

I wear glasses mostly for close up work though. I have been wearing them for years (since my teens) so although I am now 36 I just about fit into your age range lol.

I did not wear glasses at school but I always befriended the children who were standing on their own and were bullied by others. They looked so lonely standing in the school playground by themselves that I thought they looked like they needed a friend. Oddly I was able to approach them and talk. The friendship would sort of develop by itself from there as they seemed to take a liking to me.

The bullies on the other hand hated me

Actually nearly all the friendships I have ever had resulted from my adopting various outcasts and strays...(which I don't mind).

I seem to attract stray cats as well oddly lol. I have had some follow me home lol. I also had a similar thing with a puppy/dog. I went to a shelter to look around as I was considering adopting one. I asked to look at one particular pup and the woman said "he won't come to anyone, he stays hiding behind his kennel". I walked into the cage and he came straight up to me so I could give him a fuss! The woman said she was surprised as usually he kept his distance from people. I must have something about me lol

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So this means that I'm a nice guy?

Yeah, good point...thinking about it, none of the "mean" people when I was at school wore glasses - besides some of the teachers (but maybe they were just p'd off that people used to be mean to them),

Perhaps we glasses wearers are lower on the social ladder and need to compensate for that by being nice. Theres nothing wrong about being nice

Cause they're afraid that if they're mean you'll punch them and break their glasses.

I think you would all be rather surprised to find how many people need glasses but don't seek them out, ignore them and avoid them for fear of being mocked. A lot of those bullies need glasses just as often as the nice kids, they just don't want to be made fun of. I'd wager those nice glasses wearing kids were just as nice before they got glasses.

Thats actually a good point, however I wear glasses and I can be a right b***h.

I wear glasses, and honestly that is a major factor that I always consider.

You obviously haven't met my friend. She wears glasses and is verbally abusive to people in earshot. We joke around with each other so I know she isn't verbally abusive to me.

People in glasses have been rude to me. Now that 'geek chic' is in some real uptight snobs are donning the black rimmed square look.
I'm not rude and don't make people feel down because I know what it's like to be bullied for being different.

School yard bullies don't wear glasses because they themselves don't want to be made fun of. They could just punch someone out if that happened, I'd imagine.

I don't think it makes a difference if a kid wears glasses.
They can still be vary cruel and one of the worst bullies at the school.
I remember being bullied by a fat kid with glasses. He used to trip me and call me ret*d.
It makes me sense to say that. It is a stereotype that a a kid who wears glasses is a nerd and is bad at sports.

I actually find that to be attractive and I do think glasses increase sex appeal. There's nothing quite like an attractive girl in glasses, I guess I'm one of the few guys that finds the Librarian look attractive.

interesting fact: eye defected genes are dominant so if one parent has glasses, then it is most probible that all the children will too.
I think people with glasses are nicer because they know what its like to be shunned by society because they have glasses, kids are cruel...
I used to get teased just for the types of frames i had. I got glasses in grade 2, and i chose these thicked frames with fish on the, by the time i got to grade 6 i was teased for having "teachers glasses" funny enough i studying to become just that, a teacher.