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Frustrations with Glasses or Contacts
The switching in between prescription sunglasses and glasses. Especially outside. Always needing a case that goes with it.Movie theatres with those 3-D things over my regular glasses.Not being able to properly snuggle up to my partner because my glasses get in the way.My eyes are too dry for contacts. So that’s a no for me.…
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Glasses or Contacts?
If your glasses fit properly then you should have no issues. As for contacts, well they are a foreign body in your eye. They are not for everyone. I tried them but they just didn’t feel comfortable so I went back to glasses. Besides, contacts require too much maintenance. Glassers Community via Facebook
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Stylish Frames
[I] was 8 when I got glasses, couldn’t see the board at school. My mom always let me have stylish frames, they’re part of my identity now.
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Tango
I dance tango but my glasses dig into my partner’s face, without them I can’t see the dance floor.
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Dollar Tree Readers
I started wearing Dollar Tree readers in my 40s and noticed a decline in my vision approaching my 50s. I made an appointment with my optometrist friend from church to get checked out. Macular degeneration runs in my family, and I need to do all I can to stay on top of that. After examining…
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Glasses, you can’t live with them, can’t live without them
In 7th grade, on a particularly warm day in Wisconsin, I was walking to school with a friend. The world looked watery, as if everything was melting a bit in the unseasonal heat. I commented on the shimmery trees to my friend but she couldn’t see them. Then I turned to her. She, too, looked…
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Validating Myself
It was after I told my mother that I couldn’t see the chalk board and had to sit directly in front of the board to see that my mom took me to get an eye exam. My diagnosis was I was near sided, with a stigmatism in my right eye. I remember looking around the…
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Beat it four eyes.
I was one of those kids who memorized eye charts in school, in fear of needing glasses. I managed to escape a visit to the optometrist all throughout high school but all of that ended in college. In college, I was found out. It was a fall afternoon at basketball practice and the team was…
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Bradenton Family Bathroom
Toothpaste splattered the mirror. I brushed the vomit taste off my tongue. I had hurled after riding a rollercoaster with a corkscrew turn. My cousin Taylor entered the bathroom. He smelled like his coconut tanning oil. His white T-shirt unevenly bunched over his thick right shoulder, bulked up from years of playing tennis. He stepped…
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Glasses, Bullying, and Seeing Things Clearly Pt. IV
Just before graduation from basic training in the Air Force in 1971, I learned what my next base was and what my AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code) would be. My job was my second choice, Medical Service Specialist. I’d asked to be an air traffic controller to be around airplanes and very disappointed after that…
