Trouble with getting glasses - Eye exam

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Does anyone else with asperger's have trouble when you're taking your eye exam? I wear glasses (sometimes) but I hate taking the eye exam because I feel like my eyes tend to make LOTS of minor adjustment throughout the entire test.

"Which is better? 1........ or 2?" I can't really tell the difference. Sometimes I can distinguish which one looks better but it really depends on which one I'm looking at for longer. Most of the time, I tell the guy "Uh.... I think.... 2 looks a little better... I think..." But I believe that I only give him this answer because I'm currently looking at 2.
Whenever I get glasses, my prescription is always VERY strong.


My glasses broke and I had to go without them for a few months. The first couple of weeks were bad but after a while, my eyes adjusted to not having glasses and I felt like my eye sight wasn't as bad as it was.
I recently started a new job and NEEDED glasses so I found a way to fix my previous pair. The first week of wearing my glasses caused me headaches and my eyes would often water at times. I felt as if my glasses were WAY too strong. I would let me friends wear my glasses and they also suffered from headaches and stuff but I thought that it was weird that it was happening to me.

Now that I've been wearing my glasses so often at work, I feel like they've made my eyes worse because the prescription is so strong. I have to wear my glasses ALL the time now. I can't read my laptop screen, read anything on television and definitely can't read my cell phone. I had the text size on my cell phone at 7 pts and would be able to read it fine without my glasses. Now, I struggle to read the text when it's at 9 pts.


Does anyone else have a similar problem?

I have a bit of trouble with the eye test too. I'm fine with reading the letters, except when they try 2 lenses and ask which one is clearer. I can't tell. They aren't the same, but I can't say which one is clearer. Then they point to the red/green/black circles and ask, 'Which one is darker/clearer/bolder?' I don't have a clue. I'm not sure if they're asking the right questions at all.

Yeah, I have two pairs of glasses. My old prescription was good, and would only cause minor headaches after a whole day of wearing them. My second pair was a little too strong, and I feel like I lose depth perception and focus when wearing them. I bump into a lot of things even more than I usually do. But when I get used to them, I become virtually blind without them on. I only wear my first pair now. When taking the eye exam I just focus on a sharp corner of a letter/number, then see which one is the clearest. It usually ends up with a prescription that's a little too strong though, and everything looks like it's in HD. It's like watching a movie in the theater at the front row.

I can barely see out of my right eye, so the eye exam for my right eye doesn't go very far until the doctor realizes that.

I can hardly stand that "#1 or #2" portion of the exam. I am 20/800 in my left eye and 20/40 in the right, so when I tried glasses one side was heavier than the other and I couldn't merge both eyes to see the same thing. Getting metal shavings in my eyes was actually one of the best things to happen; it connected me with a good ophthalmologist that fitted me with an Acuvue soft lens, which allowed me to get my driver's license

This is me! I have been told that they can't get my eyes corrected back to 20/20, and I think it's because of this. My prescription is always just a little off.

I have an extremely rare low vision disorder that involves color blindness & light sensitivity. It wasn't identified till my senior year of high-school partly because the eye docs thought I was being a difficult patient because of my AS issues. I hated having drops put in my eyes, having equipment touching my face, I acted weird so some thought I was slow or mentally retorted & simply didn't know how to read the letters or didn't understand to read them.