This topic is about........ glasses!

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I started wearing glasses when I was 23 ( 42 now ) after putting it off for years.

I was gutted, but at least I only needed them for reading. Ten years on, at 33, I had to bow to the inevitable & wear my glasses all the time.

I was really self concious wearing them in work & when out & about.

I'd prefer not to wear glasses.

I started wearing glasses part time at 13 after i could afford my own. My parents refused to buy any for me before then even though i needed them from 4ish years old. I now have to wear them constantly. It is a pain in the bum when i am on my motorbike as my periferal vision is shot but meh, whatever.

I've worn contacts for the last three years. Would never go back to glasses.

I don't mean to derail the thread, but what is everypony's vision? Mine is -5.5 in one eye, and -5.75 in the other.

I have been wearing glasses for reading for a year and just had another test because of my eyes feeling so strained so I've got to have a new pair. There's a buy 1 get 1 free offer on though which was good news! Maybe I'll post a pic when I get the new ones. (Of my glasses that is, not me.)

I wear reading glasses only because they do help. But, there is a certain distance range that glasses are totally useless. I don't like to drive with glasses because they bug me. I'm suppose to wear them because one of my eyes turn in which caused me to get a restriction on my license and have sideview mirrors on both sides.

I've worn glasses since I was 15 to help me see clearly things that are a long way away. Without my glasses things far away look blurry. I've never worn contacts and I don't want laser eye surgery. My glasses are rectangular shaped with rounded edges and the lenses are relatively small. I don't know what my vision is, sorry. Check out these tvtropes links about glasses though:


http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... ssesTropes

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... ourGlasses

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Megane

I wear glasses because I'm myopic (it's a genetic thing, everyone from my father's family is myopic), and I wear them all the time; I don't use contact lenses.

I have worn contact lenses for the past 12 years as I could never pick out a pair of glasses. I hate how glasses look on me so I went with contacts.

I wear glasses to do my art work, to read and for driving. They are fashionable black plastic and I like them. I have dry eyes too. The eye doc said to put real hot damp washcloths on my eyes - supposedly helps dry eyes. I haven't tried it though as it sounds painful.

I was wearing glasses when I was in kindergarten & I always wore them for school & work or going to the movies. I have an extremely rare sever low vision disorder. I'm very nearsighted, have some colorblindness & am sensitive to lighting conditions, I think I tested on the border of being legally blind without glasses but I only tested slightly better with them. My close vision is a little screwy with my glasses on thou & it's easier for me to do things like read without them & I get a headache if I were to wear them for close things like watching TV or being on computer. I adapted to getting close to things & not wearing glasses except for school(which I've been out of for over 11 years now) work(I haven't worked in a few years but I do want to go back to work & I'd wear glasses for that mostly likely) or going to the movies(which I very seldom do)

I've worn glasses since 5th grade....February 1971 to be exact. I got glasses the week after recovering from a 2-week bout of measles. Had the old dark brown "cat-eye" glasses. Oh...and I started getting zits about the same time. Yep -- 5th grade was just a bang-up year for me.

I'm blind as a bat. I don't know my exact prescription, but I passed 20/400 YEARS ago. I would be disabled in the truest sense of the word if I couldn't obtain glasses -- I wouldn't be able to drive or type or see a screen or grocery shop or work or even recognize people coming towards me unless I knew them well and could recognize their "shape." And now that I've reached middle age -- it's not enough that I can't see far away, but now my close up vision is going too. My glasses are what used to be called "Tri-focals" and now called "progressives." I have three different prescriptions in my glasses -- for distance (driving), mid-range (a computer screen) and close-up (reading, sewing).

I've tried contacts a couple of times, but just can't get used to them. I don't mind my glasses, unless I go to the beach or when I used to bounce of a trampoline at school -- then I can't see what I'm doing and I feel mildly endangered. I'm sure I hide behind them to a certain degree.

About when I started wearing glassees: Around the 3rd/4th grade. My dad also wore them around the same time in his life, so it's a genetic thing within me.

I got a pair of reading glasses a couple of years ago. At first I was surprised that they made everything look bigger - I thought they would only correct the fuzziness in my vision. Also, I have to hold the book at a specific distance (or my head at a specific distance from the desk if I'm leaning over a print-out) in order to see the text clearly. But I like how my brown plastic rims (I thought about getting real horn-rims, but they're frightfully expensive) make me look properly intellectual!

I will get this out of the way: I have a thing for women in glasses (except Palin, o' course....)

At first I read this topic as

"This topic is about.......... greese!"

Maybe I need to get some glasses.. or greese I am not sure.