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I wear a contact lense on my right eye (I wish I had a monocle).

I've worn glasses since I was 17 and am short sighted with bad astigmatism. My new distance spectacles arrived in the post yesterday and I'm still getting used to them. Trouble is that while everything is now crisp and clear the relative distances of things are different, it look like I'm always walking up a steep hill and when I look down at my feet it seems like I'm only a 3 feet high dwarf Weird! I'm actually 6 feet tall.

It seems your glasses are magnified.

I am astigmatic with a lazy left eye that was operated when I was young, but it didn't correct much. I wear contacts, and glasses at home. I started wearing glasses young, although I was alwas sitting on my NHS frames.

Generally speaking people get more longs sighted as the get old.

I'm short-sighted (I don't wear glasses except for outside in the light--my prescription glasses are tinted).

Medium myopia due to computer use and a genetic base. My right eye has a corneal irregularity.

I wandered around more than one year without glasses from age 11 to age 12 although I couldn't see, because I didn't manage telling anyone. And nobody noticed until after months.

I can barely wear glasses even after 8 years of 'use'. I can't stand them in my face, it makes me sick and they break all the time. (I can only wear my one pair of shades without issues.)

So I wear contacts.

I'm near/short-sighted and have been wearing glasses since I was 6. I would get contacts, but I feel that the glasses are apart of my image (ie a sizable chunk of my current friends have EVER seen me without glasses) and - like Lisa Loeb - i'm allergic to contact lenses (trust me i've tried).

I'm moderately near-sighted. I started out wearing glasses in fourth grade and my vision gradually became worse. Pretty much everyone in my family has some degree of myopia so it was probably inevitable, though my massive amount of time spent on the Internet hasn't helped. Until recently, I probably had the best vision in the family. I just got a new prescription yesterday, and it's great to no longer have headaches from poor lenses. I doubt I could wear contacts because I'm sure I would find putting something in my eyes very comfortable. Just having my eyes dilated at the optometrist is a bit of a nightmare because I'm so sensitive about my eyes being touched. I can't tolerate the eye-puff glaucoma test at all, and doctors always want to do it because my grandmother has glaucoma. I know a lot of aspies hate the dentist (and I'm among them), but I find the optometrist just as bad if not worse.

I wore glasses from like 5th grade until i finished high school. Now I wear contacts.

Worst thing ever is this portable device, I think it's for measuring eye pressure...it's about the size and shape of a capped pen, and they tell you to hold still and look straight at it while it comes so very near to your lense They told me it would come close but not touch, but I think they slipped a little

I used to wear glasses for nearsightedness.

Couple years ago I got Lasik, cut up and lasered my eyes...
I'm fine now as eyesight goes.

It will only be a matter of time before I need to start wearing glasses. Until about 2 years ago, my eyesight was about average. Now, I'm short-sighted to the extent where I see nothing but splodges and blurs. Slight exaggeration there, but my eyesight really is crap.

I've worn glasses since around age 6 or 7. I'm almost legally blind. I'm both nearsighted and farsighted now. I can't see past the end of my nose without glasses or contacts. I also have a reverse astigmatism. Apparently mine goes the opposite way that others do. My eye doctor says it's pretty rare. He also says that as long as technology stays a half step ahead of the degeneration of my sight that I'll continue to be able to wear contacts. I have to say that I love the new super thin plastics. No more coke bottle rims for me! I'm vain, I'll continue to pay for it as long as they keep inventing it. I'm also extremely night blind. Without the anti glare on my lenses, I wouldn't be able to drive at night at all.

I am nearsighted... have astigmatism in both eyes... and a lazy right eye (what is with the lazy right eyes you guys?)

Your opticians were WRONG, at least given what I have seen in the US. I have asked about 100 people, with correction, if they were far/near sighted. Only about 3 said FAR sighted! BTW I am one of them. The people were in about 7 states, and not part of a related group.

SO many have had lasik done, and Anyone more than +1 far sighted is NOT a candidate. They don't say that publically, and don't mention it on ads. All that leads me to believe MOST are NEARSIGHTED!