How do you feel wearing glasses?

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For a long time I was scared to wear glasses. I thought I would look like a geek and get targeted more. When I started wearing glasses all the time I actually felt like people stared at me less. It feels like a shield. I now wear contacts more because I find them more practical.

I wear glasses because I am unable to put anything into my eyes. I'm horrified by the thought of doing that. I think my glasses look good, though.

I like wearing glasses and I like wearing contacts. However I was never able to get a lens prescription that worked for me so I stick with glasses. I buy my frames online from a specific outlet store so they look good and also they are cheap.

I used to have trouble with frames, felt like they interfered with my sight so I didn't use my glasses most of the time when I was a kid but without glasses I can't see so I needed to get used to it.

Annoyed. It has nothing to do with looks -- but it has something to do with wearing it for too long, it felt like it got heavier or tighter with time when it's not.

For being nearsighted, I often put my glasses up like a headband instead of letting it rest on my nose the whole time.
Because most of my preferred activities are nearsighted, and if I wear glasses while doing those activities -- I won't able to see far well with glasses on. Meaning, my eyesight do get worse if I wear them whenever I choose to do nearsighted activities too often.


And, I can't afford contacts in the long run. Not worth spending everytime it expires.

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I am fine with wearing glasses most of the time. In hot weather though, they tend to slide down my nose and just generally feel heavy.

I wanted to wear glasses when I were a teenager because I liked the nerdy look. But my eyesight was good and fashion glasses were not available (not that I cared enough to find out if its true) so I never had a chance to wear them back then.

I did wear some glasses for a short time in preschool though (lazy eye), but I don't remember it. My parents only tell me I was really calm with the glasses on. Usually I wouldn't sit in one place and the room was full of me. With the glasses on I would barely move or speak. So they must have been very uncomfortable. Or perhaps I was afraid to break them.

Now I have to wear glasses (slight nearsightedness) and I dislike them. Most of the time I keep them in my bag and only put them on when I need to see something far away or I am overwhelmed by the fog around. My clear field of view without glasses is 15cm-3m so I don't need glasses for most activities and my eyes don't feel comfortable when I am reading with my glasses on - the glasses are for walking/driving. I wish I could have progressive glasses 0 to -1 instead of the regular -0,5R/-0,75L. I would be able to control the glasses strength by looking up or down.

The glasses I have now are my 2nd glasses, although my prescription didn't change.

I had to stop using the first ones because they were way too uncomfortable. Heavy, tight and blocking a lot of my field of view. and they wouldn't be properly customized to my head shape despite what the clerk was saying when I was choosing them ("They are uncomfortable." - "Don't worry, we will customize them after we put the lenses in").

My current glasses are better. They are very light, have no frames and practically cannot be felt. But they are very flexible so they move when someone is hugging me which makes me look and feel even more autistic because I refuse to be hugged and push people away when they try, due to fear people will break my glasses. I even yelled at my uncle for "destroying my glasses" because they moved so bad when he hugged me I thought they changed shape.
I also hate being hugged with them on because people make the lenses dirty and I hate looking through dirty lenses.

I thought about contacts but the idea of putting anything in my eyes terrifies me. I can't even apply eye drops due to uncontrollable blinking.

Glasses also give me the "seeing world through a glass wall" feeling which isn't good. I socialize better without my glasses on. I need to focus more in order to pay attention to people when I am wearing them because it's sort of as if I were seeing people through a screen. It's a barrier.

That's one thing that's a pain - cleaning glasses all the time. My eyelashes are long and hit the top of my lenses sometimes. They make a greasy mess so multiple times a day I clean my glasses.

I have Irlen lenses also. The lenses are light blue. Someone once thought that they were a fashion statement, but no. I have been wearing Irlens since 2006 in various colours. Grey, purple and now blue. I tend to need a change in colour when I have a medication change. They have been blue for 4 years now. Stable medication.

I have needed glasses since gr.4, and appreciate being able to see distant details. The quality of the metalwork on the frames has become abysmal, but I still have one presentable, general purpose pair of bifocals in glass so that they won't scratch from use in the workshop. Unfortunately, what I need there now are medium-distance glasses, and I had to buy cheap plastic lenses to experiment. Optometrists are totally useless at questions any photographer deals with constantly regarding depth of field and focus distance.
I am astounded at the advertising I get about glasses, as if they were fashion accessories. I wear them for what they do, and have never noticed any public reaction, except a general reluctance of schoolyard bullies to risk breaking them.

Wearing glasses really carries NO stigma these days; in fact, there are people who don't need glasses who wear glasses with just "glass" in them, nothing "optical" about the glass.

I wish I could dispense with mine, though. They're a bit of a pain in the butt. They fog up at inopportune times--such as when I'm driving.

I have multiple vision problems which would preclude me from getting the laser surgery. I'm both near-sighted and far-sighted, and have rather severe astigmatism. Though I'm not legally blind because my vision, corrected, is 20/30 or so.

I wore glasses through most of my childhood, and I really didn't like it back then. I don't know that it encouraged bullying any more than if I hadn't worn them, but it was definitely seen as a point of "weakness". A couple of bullies in particular would often try to take them from me so that I would have to fight or demean myself somehow to get them back.

I always found them annoying to wear too. They never seemed comfortable, and I'm sure they are partly why I am so good at waggling my ears! I also seem to find it hard to blank the frames out from my peripheral vision, so the world always seems a bit like some kind of "virtual reality".

In adulthood, I didn't wear them again until just recently, and only for reading and the computer etc. The thing I find most odd now that I only wear them occasionally is the way that they mess with my coordination. My proprioception doesn't seem to be very good, so when the magnification changes when I put them on or take them off, my walking gets very unsteady as I lose my perception of how far away the floor is, as if my whole body has changed size.

I was definitely bullied in junior high because I wore glasses and braces. This was back in the early 1970s.

If one would Google "Cousin Oliver," you would see a kid who resembled me when I was 12 years old.

"Joe 90" was the usual playground taunt for glasses wearers when I was a kid. I always found that quite odd, as couldn't see what was so negative about being like Joe 90; he was one of the few TV characters that I really liked as a kid. As far as I can remember, he didn't even wear glasses all the time.

I recently got prescribed glasses, but I've only ever worn them when watching TV indoors. I need to wear them more often but I keep thinking strangers might judge me more than they do already. Glasses suit some people, and the majority of people over about 40-45 wear glasses I know, but I keep thinking they look stupid on me, even after choosing them with an aunt of mine who is really good with the latest trends and knows which glasses suit me.

I think it's because 99% of people with ASDs, and people with Down's Syndrome, that I've ever seen (whether it's real life or on TV) wear glasses, like it's a common thing for people with disabilities to wear glasses, and I don't want to fit that stereotype. If I were NT and needed glasses, I probably wouldn't think twice about geek or disability stereotypes, but because I'm on the spectrum I seem to be more sensitive to these silly things.