Thing is, it feels normal, you just don't expect to see details past a certain point. And then someone hands you your first pair of glasses and you realise you are not the only person with uneven skin tones in the whole world...
I really feel this, as a kid I thought trees were meant to look like fluffy green clouds when you were a few car lengths away. I was fascinated when I got glasses that I could still see the individual leaves from far away!
@@katebeemakes I think every very near sighted person I know has a story about discovering leaves! I always thought it was kind of charming...now I'm not so sure!
i collected my first pair of glasses at night. the whole ride home i was staring at the rim of the moon and only realized that the moon gives out a slightly blue light
My new optometrist saw my prescription the other day and said “I’ll introduce myself again when you can see my face, I know I’m just a talking blur right now”. It was the friendliest roast I’ve ever heard.
Little side-fact: when you take off your glasses outside and come accross a person you know - you cannot see their faces, but you can identify them by their unique kind of movement. 😊
For me it was always hair. I can make out the shape. Incidentally, even when using corrective lenses I no longer recognize people when they get a haircut.
Legit this. I started needing glasses around 3rd or 4th grade, and I’d get a -1 added every year for the next five and then it slowed down a bit. I didn’t have spare glasses so when I wanted the new lenses to the old frames I literally walked around the school yard in the morning trying to recognize my four friends from their body size and how they moved. Got good at it and then bummer, my glasses were ready for pickup lol
So true. When I was in high school I didn’t wanna wear my glasses and I was -2.75 then. The only way I could tell who I was looking at was by their walk. Could spot it across campus. Even people I didn’t like lol
I know my family members and friends by their walk and how they walk. I can usually tell who it is before I see them. Also, I would just ignore people if I didn't have my glasses because I would have to get too close to see them well. I tend to memorize my spaces because if I lose my glasses while asleep I can't see well enough to find them.
When I got my first pair of glasses, it almost felt like I was on some sort of hallucinogenic drug lol. Everything was so textured and detailed and beautiful!
I got mine at 28. Got home, then realized how dirty my windows were. 😄 I knew my sight wasn't perfect, but I ignored it. Then my friends and I went for lunch, and one of them pointed to a guy she said was cute. I only saw a blurry face. That reason alone made me go have my eyes checked.
Have a friend with -14 on both sides. I only understood how bad that was until there was a sleepover and, as we were getting ready to sleep, he stopped me in a corridor to ask for toothpaste, and opened with "Hey, could you say a word? I can't tell who you are." We were at most elbow distance apart.
As someone with -10 I feel that. If it’s darker or everyone’s dressed the same or I don’t know the persons outfit for the day it’s really hard to tell people apart without glasses. You just gotta memorize “a is wearing hot pink and b had dark long hair and black pants on today” and hope no one else is dressed the same cuz that’s all you can make out.
@@macejetzer897 that makes sense. My friend was completely blindsided then, because we were in the process of changing to sleep clothes. A whole group of people to re-memorise for the evening.
Every near-sighted person knows that refreshing feeling when you get new glasses after your old ones weren't cutting it anymore and you look at a tree and everything is so crisp and clear
I remember being in 4th grade and being confused at how all the other kids were able to read the whiteboard without being right in front of it, since I thought everyone had the same vision as me. Getting glasses for the first time is truly life-changing.
What got me my appointment was when I copied down the new vocabulary list from the board but found out I didn't have the same words as everyone else, lol.
I guess I squinted, so the teacher knew to put me near the front. Then the teacher tells the parents, and the parents go set up the eye doctor appt. Teachers are also the ones who normally notice a child not hearing properly; seems like daydreaming, but it's not necessarily.
For me it got worse in the 7th grade to a point where I could not see how much time we had left in an exam but I sat in front and I gaslighted myself not wanting to be Mr 4 eyes. Now I see clearly but I struggle with depth perception on my glasses
I used to fake blow my nose because the tissues were in front by the whiteboard. I didn't want to tell anyone I couldn't see so I would blow my nose and memorize everything on the board.
@@krygstem When I got my first glasses back in... sixth grade I think? I remember wondering at being able to see the individual leaves on a tree across the street.
As a kid, I thought this was just how the world looked, but when my school notified my parents that I hadn't done well on their eye test, I was taken to an eye doctor. That's when we found out I was nearsighted. When I put my glasses on for the first time, I cried. I didn't realize the world was actually pretty beautiful, and I was overjoyed to see the world as it truly is.
And then there’s me, who somehow didn’t get detected by the school vision tests until my mom realized I couldn’t read road signs before enrolling me in driver’s ed.
I got my first pair of glasses when I was 10 years old. I put them on and ran out of my optometrist’s office so I could look at the trees. Leaves! I saw leaves for the first time! I’d never seen so many shades of green together! So beautiful! I’ll never forget it.
My parents refused to have my eyes checked because they both had phenomenal eye sight. I learned to recognize people by the way they walked and other body language clues. They were shocked when at 12, the eye Dr. said, "She really can't see."
If a kid said to me they recognize people by their body language, I would wonder why not by the face. I used to do that before my glasses, if a person was far away I couldn't recognize them till they were closer. But for my favorite people, I memorized what color they wore, body proportions and how they walk ECT. Did your parents really think the eye doctor would affirm the assumptions? I just can't imagine not trusting what a child says about their own needs. If a kid says they need an iPad, that's one thing, but glasses? C'mon lol.
That's so weird, my parents both also have great eyesight, but i still got checked every year, which was great when i started to get nearsighted at age 13 (the fact that my grandma has been nearsighted her whole life didn't stop my parents from blaming it on my phone tho)
@@rosalee477 I'm sorry, I can just imagine someone right now, walking up behind you, and you recognize them, but when they ask how, you just tell them they have a smell 💀 My best friend is nearsighted, and honestly, if this happened it would be hilarious
I stayed in this one camp, and my glasses got broken or whatever, and I had a week to go still and didn't want to bother my parents. So, by the end of that week, my friends and teachers (who were pretty new to me) I could tell apart by manner of walking. And of some ppl I saw all the time - I learnt all their T-shirts and could tell them apart based on these big color stains moving dozens of feet away. It's insane how adaptive our brains are.
One thing we all have in common is that when we all got our first pair of glasses is being amazed at the fact you can see every individual leaf on the trees for the first time and them not just being fuzzy green blobs, so beautiful 🥺
how I ghetto test if I need new glasses is I see if I can see clear lines on the house at the end of the street. whenever the colors blend together, i go to the eye doc and get new glasses
This is such a great example of extreme near- sightedness. Before eye surgery my vision was -10.5 in my right eye And -11.5 in my left. Surgery was like a miracle.
@PhanteonOP Almost completely cured it. Of course, it couldn't keep my eyes from aging. 25 years later, I have glasses to help with minor astigmatism and farsightedness.
@lucifertheend So, I'm guessing your vision is actually too bad to be addressed by Lasik eye surgery. I'm sorry. Do your glasses do a good job helping you to navigate the world? Like, can you drive?
@lucifertheend God, that sounds terrible. My eyesight is only -6.00 and I literally fall into a depressive state and don't want to do anything when I don't have my glasses. I can't imagine how awful -16 or generally anything higher than my eyesight is. I hope you have or obtain the resources to help you navigate through life the best you can ):
Thank you so much for showing that last one. I'm severely near-sighted and rarely see (pun not intended) examples of myopia to this extent. Really appreciate it, and love your work!
I repeated the 2nd grade because teachers thought I had a learning disability. Half way though 2nd grade i was put in special ed. It was table work, no blackboard. Within 3 months I was reading and writing at a 6th grade level. Turns out I was just nearsighted. That school taught 100% of lessons on the blackboard. The look of guilt on my mom's face at the optometrist was unforgettable.
Yeah most sight problems are discovered by teachers/at school Shout out to my 1st grade head teacher who discovered my near sightedness, and later became my little sister's head teacher and discovered her near sightedness as well
My second grade math/science teacher is the one who realized i was near sighted. I remember not being able to read from one of those projectors that used the laminated sheets, so he zoomed in a couple times before the words were basically 3 words on the screen. He became the elementary school teacher 2 years ago. Very proud of him and to have been taught by him :D
For me it was my grandma who noticed, I used to watch tv at her place and she said I always narrowed my eyes, my mom took me to many different optometrists and they said it was only a habit, I don’t need glasses. Turns out I did, still do, the last optometrist said I needed glasses for someone with -2.5. Now, 12 years later I have -10.5 on the left eye and -9.5 on the right. I’m planning to get surgery once I’m between 23 and 25 years old
I took my son to a regular pediatrician and he was “fine”. My daughter 11 needed new glasses so I made an appointment for my 5 year old at the same time. ( Why not? Our insurance covers one exam a year) Yep! He needs glasses! One eye is weaker so he actually had “crowding effect” so his brain was having issues focusing on words but could see single letters in isolation. He would have ended up with reading problems.
I'll never forget the feeling I had when I put on my glasses for the first time. I looked outside of the window of my optician and I could actually see the leaves of the trees in full detail. I remember never wanting to take them off again, ever. It's amazing how much my right eye (-0,5 at that time) compensated for my left eye (-1,75). I honestly wouldn't have realized that I had needed glasses if I didn't need an eye exam for my drivers licence.
that's is exactly my experience, when I was like 3rd grade. I looked out of the window and was amazed I saw leaves on the trees! now I'm at almost -8. ughh
Same, I stared at the grass and was stunned to see individual blades of grass. Also. The stars at night, omg, so pretty even if there are hardly any stars visible through the light pollution.
Befote having glasses (-3.7 and - 1.5) I could not understand why would they do such small letters. And I thought I could not see things because I am short.
I got my first glasses in boot camp. I remember putting them on and being so amazed at how everything looked. I couldn't believe other people could see things like without glasses. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.
I am currently a -4.57 and when I first mentioned not being able to see my parents didn't believe me for a year of me insisting. When I first went to an eye doctor my doctor went "oooohhh... yeahhhhh... she really needs glasses" lol. I love this video and showing people with decent vision how hard it REALLY is
Idk maybe sometjings off with my scale but I don't really need glasses at that scale it's just very healthy for me to use them ig it's an illusion my brain does
When your very nearsighted, new glasses are the best. Imagine not being able to see anything clearly less than a foot away from you and then suddenly being able to see every leaf on a tree. It's incredible.
I still remember the majesty and sensory overload the first time I put on a proper pair of glasses and saw every single leaf on a tree in sharp detail, all moving independently in the wind. I knew what they are, what they were up close... but 'tree' to me had been 'big shimmery green blob' before.
Ngl I hate new glasses for this exact reason. There's a sort of comfort for me in not being able to see details. If you can't see them for long enough you stop looking for them. And then you suddenly get new glasses and everything is suddenly in focus. It's a lot and I don't like it
I remember the first time I had my first pair of glasses. I didn't realize that the traffic lights weren't supposed to be blurry and I didn't know that the trees could be seen in such details. We went to pick up my prescribed glasses late in the evening and once I put them on our way back home, I was so amazed and I was on the verge of crying because of how beautiful everything was.
No offense but that is a load of crap. Either you were born with poor eye sight and have no recollection of your first pair. OR you, like most people had perfect vision that progressively got worse. You knew how things were supposed to be before your eyesight went bad. It's one thing to get used to not seeing details, its another thing to pretend that you had never seen those details before.
I was like 9 when I got my first pair of glasses. I'd been complaining for a while, but my mother just assumed I was trying to copy my brother who had also just recently got glasses. A teacher of mine noticed I was squinting at the board and she said something that prompted the visit finally. My mother then took me to Walmart to pick up some things on the way home. I was ASTOUNDED that there were signs with words, and proceeded to read every single one of them out loud. "Mom! That one says Electronics!" The amount of excitement must have made me look like a lunatic.
-4.5 in both eyes. Glad that the last two exams I had the worsening stopped (at least for now). It’s a whole different kind of fight for your life when you’re trying to just move around your own damn house without contacts in 😭
Glasses all the way for me. No need to bother with time limit of contacts, no need to worry about eye infections from leaving them on too long, and no need to stick stuff on my eyeballs which i really don’t like the idea of. I don’t mind the downsides of glasses too much such as the fogging up, needing to clean them occasionally, or the potential of breaking them at random.
I recall looking out from the optometrists office and seeing the individual tree leaves of the Japanese maple in the parking lot and being shocked; I had no idea people could see so far away
It was really hard for me to know I was nearsighted, you don't realize you lose a lot of detail until you can't read your professor's slides or can't read street signs until you get close enough.
yep the plus side is wearing glassess for the first time after ur diagnosis feels so good. I remember seeing all the trees like "wtf I can see individual leaves"
Those were the exact two ways I realized! I only needed them every now and then before. Now I’m -3.00 and I can’t recognize faces clearly across a room without my contacts. Can’t wait til my scrip is steady enough to laser them.
I got glasses in 6 th grade for nearsightedness. I still remember walking out of the optometrist's with my new glasses and marvelling that I could see the leaves on the trees (not just a green blob) and I could read the various store signs and such around. It was a whole new world!
I too got my glasses in 6th grade and I was absolutely mesmerized for a good 15 minutes just contemplating the leaves on the trees through my parents' bedroom window. I was dumbfounded that i could see something that was some 150 meters away
@@sofiabranco8544 Is it just 6th grade is the time people realize you actually need glasses? I got mine in 6th after my mom was called in by my teacher who was accusing me of cheating and in the middle of this -I burst out yelling that I wouldn't need to copy the questions off the idiot next to me if he just printed out his test questions like a moderately prepared adult or let me sit in the front row like I asked and every other teacher had before and it should be obvious my answers were different. So an optometrist visit later I had glasses for nearsightedness and astigmatism in both eyes.
Sure, but you don’t have that much control over it. Even if someone follow a your advice to go outside and is careful about screen time and they can still be nearsighted. And nobody with the vision in the video has “lost” their vision - all of that is corrected to normal levels.
This is a ridiculous statement to make. You have absolutely no control over if you become short-sighted or not. Genetics plays a big role in it. The only way you can have control over your eyesight is if you do a lot of close vision work (ie computer, embroidery, writing, etc). And even then you can do all the preventative things and still need reading glasses
@@LM-ny2pywhat role do genetics have in the progression of nearsightedness? I’ve always heard people say genetics but they can never back up their claims with quite literally anything.
@rip02 Genetics and your eyesight is a very complex issue. It is not as straightforward as, say the genetic abnormality which causes cystic fibrosis. Problems with your eyesight is more of a familial trait with several sections of different chromosomes contributing to it (similar to eye or skin colour or height). Hence, they say it runs in the family. However, there are also other contributing environmental factors which may also affect your eyesight. Myself, my mum, my maternal grandmother, two of my maternal aunts, and two of my maternal cousins are all short-sighted. I have been short-sighted since I was 8, but once I started at university (and heavily "exposed" to computers) I now also need reading glasses - especially if I am doing any sort of close-up work for an extended period of time.
At -7 in each eye this is awesome to be able to show my family how I actually see without my glasses. Pro tip if you can't find your glasses try using the camera on your phone. It works fantastic!
In Grey's anatomy, Erica Hahn explained it so well. "because the big green blobs that I had been staring at my whole life, they weren't big green blobs. they were leaves on trees." I cried for weeks after getting My glasses, because I never knew how beautiful snow falling actually is.
for me it was candle flames/lights. I always thought that were just these blurry balls. Seeing a flame on one of my moms candles clearly for the first time felt so lifechanging for no reason
I was a leaves kid. Trees were just those brown amd green broccoli looking things. And then my first pair of glasses in the 1st grade showed me the plethora of leaves attached to each one.
@@TheWonderpup6 Yess! Seeing each individual leaf from a distance was amazing! Until I was 13, I always just assumed leaves from a distance looked like blurry fuzz balls
I remember showing my mom an ex of how the world looked to me. My script is -4 and I took a picture from a vacation we went on and blurred it to about the same blurriness that everything looked to me. I kept taking my glasses on and off to make sure it was right. My mom felt so bad. She really didn't understand until I showed her that 😅
I get that. If you take a video through your glasses, tap for it to focus, then remove the glasses, you get a similar blur. I showed my mom a picture of how I saw Disney without my glasses. I had to take them off for a ride and showed her so she would understand why I needed my sister to guide me. She cried and said she was sorry I had to live that way.
Did that in Photoshop. My mum also has bad eyes, farsighted astigmatism - and she happens to have both + and - in each eye, - sph and +cyl Optometrists are usually helpless with her but ironically, while she has -8 in one eye she still sees better than me when it comes to seeing stuff far away, and I only have -3. She also has insanely good colour perception. When I showed her how I see using the same trick she was also shocked, because for her it was always "too small", not "too far away", and she's shocked how I can read tiny print up close without glasses
I'm really glad you did something like this because I'm 20/20 and was always kind of curious about how they see. Thanks for showing. Kind of gives an understanding what they have to go through.
Once in high school, one of my sister's friends came in the front door while I was reading sans glasses, about an inch from the end of my nose. I looked up, knew it was him by his voice, but couldn't tell what largish thing he was holding. I asked him what he was holding and in a funny voice he said, "uhh... A guitar."
@@amandaarmstrong9900 did lasik helped u? I am thinking of getting it but the dr said the max they can get my prescription to is a -8. I am currently at -15, -14
I work at as an optical assistant and at least once a week when a parent brings their kid along whilst picking up glasses, the kid will do exactly did. Got to a point a few days ago when a kid (who didn't even need glasses) asked me to try it with him, so I held out one hand with all my fingers open and hid my other hand behind my back with one finger unfurled. When he said 5, I pulled my other hand around.
I had glasses from age 5 - 25. I got Lasik 12/30/2016. When I say that the world made me cry from its beauty, it's not an exaggeration. I have astigmatism in both eyes, nearsighted to a -7.25 on my left eye and a -3 on my right eye. While Lasik did enable me to see the world for what it actually is, it couldn't do anything for my astigmatism. I still have large halos around any light, even in the daytime. Nighttime is way more difficult for driving, but at least I can see what color the stoplight is (not colorblind, the halos just obscured everything). I had a couple of abrasions on my eye in May and they messed with the Lasik site. I'm back to seeing 'normally', but the distance I can see has reduced. It's not majorly significant, but by golly, I can notice it.
Really makes normal sighted people appreciate the invention of glasses, so many people would not be able to function if it weren't for them. My mother has -7 and I don't even think that she has a bad vision until she takes off her glasses and asks about something 5 meters in front of her
@@cookieruntranslations thats not rly how it works. im -6 and i can see the things that are far away from me but i just cant see any details besides general shape and color. but i take my glasses off at home all the time just cuz i hate wearing them 24/7. i can function fine. i just cant read or drive or watch tv from the couch lol. i literally cook dinner without glasses sometimes. its not quite as debilitating as u think.
Tbh i have just watched a documentary on this and actually glasses were invented a long-long time ago. People just almost never needed them, only chirch people(not native, sorry), becouse they were pretty much only ones, who did all the reading and writing. And people used to have a better sight in general.
I got glasses in second grade and it was amazing. I don’t think anyone ever forgets what it was like to see the world properly for the first time. Unfortunately, between 4th and 6th grade, I needed a new prescription every six months by a significant margin-I had to get an MRI because they thought I could have a tumor! Thankfully, they didn’t find anything wrong, but it wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I went a full year without getting a new prescription. Two years and even more vision issues and literal headaches later, I’ve discovered that my eyes don’t properly focus on their own, especially when I’m wearing my contacts, so I have to use reading glasses on top of those. My current doc recommended that solution, but it sound like I might be needing bifocals before I’m 30.
I remember when I got my first pair of glasses I was actually amazed at all the details I hadn’t seen for ages. Like seeing strands of hair from far away or making out color nuances. I was actually so protective of my glasses I kept cleaning them like every 5 minutes
I remember looking at trees and clouds for hours when I first got them. Kinda sad the magic wore off after a while, but it was such a pleasant feeling.
@@banbrotherhood First thing I did on the ride back home after picking them up was just stare and read the traffic signs the first time since many years. It was really interesting
I remember the day I got my glasses, I was very young, and the office we went to was right across the street from a lake. As I walked out with my new glasses I could see across the lake and exclaimed to my Father "Wow! Are those birds?! Look, Daddy! Birds!" Looking back on it now it probably was cute to my Dad to see how excited I was just about the geese across the pond. I don't remember his reaction beyond him saying that there were indeed birds there, because I was so enamored with the world.
More like a stab to his heart. Parents usually report it hurts them a lot when they realize their kid has been blindish and they hadn’t noticed or cared
My mum was shocked I was like "MUM! I can read all the signs!" and then I read a bunch of signs really far away in the store that she herself couldn't read. It's been nearly 25 years and after every new pair it's been "ooh that sign is so crisp" "look at the leaves on the tree" "I can see individual trees on the mountains several kilometers away!"
For me it was failing the eye test for my learner's permit. However my sister was like 5. Across the street from the eye doc was the county courthouse with lots of trees in the lawn. My sister remarked that there were so many different shades of green in the trees from all the individual leaves. Before they were just a green blurry blob. That comment had stuck with me 40 years later now
I still remember getting my first glasses and I had only -1, there's nothing that compares to the feeling of seeing the world in ultra HD for the first time
Being near sighted is realizing trees don't look like fuzzy blobs from a little distance away and you're supposed to be able to read from a few feet away. Never will forget getting my first pair of glasses, it was like seeing in 4k.
true bro i got my glasses when i was like 14 or 13 i know i was a little too young to get glasses but when i first got it i was like blown away i was astonished by the detail on the wood the leaves and everything i was like i am in an another dimension where the world is in 4k
Oh my god, this puts everything into perspective. I’m -4.25 bilaterally. I had no idea how bad it is for the poor souls with anything above the 6, which is bad enough. Thank you for sharing this!!!!
I still remember getting my first pair of glasses, and realizing that the world wasn't a painting by Monet, and that trees had individual leaves not just blobs of colour.
It depends on the severity but my eyes are between -1 and -2 (one eye is slightly better then the other). And at that low level it’s barely a inconvenience. I see great close and to a pretty far distance. Without glasses I still see the tv as fine as with glasses. But a little further than a normal distance most people have been the TV and where you sit is where my vision starts to get blurry. So if I drive I have to have glasses, both by law and I would never imagine driving without them because that seems extremely stupid. For a lecture or presentation, I need my glasses. Or they need to use a new pen that you can see well on the white board. Or if I go to a the cinema or watch a play, I need to bring my glasses. But otherwise if I forget my glasses at home, which I do once in a while. It’s fine. And being able to lay on the couch or bed and not need the glasses on to read is nice.
Once I hit forty, I needed reading glasses. I'll fall asleep with them on, and have red indents on the sides of my nose. I have to remember to take them off when I get up to walk around, cuz then I'd trip!
@@lapislazarus8899 yep. My distance vision is still good. I use "Costco readers" (3 for $16?) And I generally look over them when I'm not reading. I also, fall asleep with them on sometimes. Spring-loaded sides leave a small indention just above my ear. But it lets me read easily. So there's that.
When I was 13, I told my mom that I might be nearsighted. It wasn't that bad then. She just scoffed and said "Why don't you watch TV late at night now? ". So I never raised the question again. And before my 10th boards, she saw me reading my book like with literally an inch distance and decided to get a eye check up. Had -5.4 and -5.6 power and when I got my first pair of glasses, the whole ride home, I watched the night sky and realized that the moon is shiny and not a blob of paint over the sky and there are stars in the sky literally distances apart, not fused together. It was like surreal for me, to be able to read the blackboard from the last bench and being able to see farther distances.
I doubt this is true Im -6 on both eyes, and i literally couldnt make out anything on the whiteboard from the first bench, even when i had -3. It was *impossible*
So fucking relatable....sitting on the last bench copying your friend's notes cause couldn't see the board😭😂...even in the tests, copying *only the questions*😂😂.... I got my pairs in my 8th grade with -2.5....tbh I know since 5th grade that I can't see properly.... it take me 3 years to tell my parents that i cant see cause i changed the school and i leave my buddy in the previous school and here is no one who can show their notebook to me while sitting on the last bench....now I am in 2nd year with -4.25... But when I got my glasses... My father used to told me...give some rest to your eyes ( by putting my glasses off) but the thing is i feel relaxed while wearing them....seeing everything so clearly is a beautiful experience....😊 :_)
One of the best things an optometrist ever did in going above and beyond for me was to take the little lens that did this sort of thing to exactly my level, and took that to my mom. She had always been as understanding as she could be with my complaining when I didn’t have glasses (which wasn’t super often, so I didn’t get used to it) - but it helped her SO much to be even more understanding when she looked at my uncorrected world. (Her words: “Oh, you’re BLIND.”) She still doesn’t like complaining in general, of course, but boy did she ease up on me after that. (Well. A little; she’d already been pretty gentle if a bit exasperated.)
I was -10 in each eye at birth. Until I was 22 when I got Lasik eye surgery done that changed my life , It’s been about 15 years since I got it done and i see with perfect vision. I thank all the scientists and 😊doctors in the vision world. Keep up the good work
People always call me snobby because I didn't say hi to them from afar. Ma'am I did not even recognize you. If anybody waves at me, I wave back even though I have no idea who they are.
I do the same! Better to be mistaken than being rude! But I still tell people to say hi to me first, because otherwise I'm probably not going to notice.
I've had that problem too in places where I don't wear my glasses, like at the pool. But even when I do wear my glasses other places I still don't recognize people. I have what is called face blindness. Which means that even though I can see fine with my glasses on I retain little to no memory of their face. I recognize them by context instead. What door did they just come out of, etc. Or by the way they walk. Or by what their voice sounds like. But if I see someone in a different place and they don't say anything and aren't moving I have no idea who they are. I wonder if I learned to recognize people that way because those are the things I could see as a child. Maybe I never learned to remember faces because I couldn't see tham as a child. But whatever the cause, people don't appreciate when we don't acknowledge that we know them. I'm with you on that. So I've actually started telling new people flat out that I'm face blind if we have a nice conversation. I tell them that I won't recognize them if I see them again unless I hear their voice. So, I encourage them to just say hi to me first and then I will recognize them. It's a bit awkward. But it lets people know that I value them enough to tell then how to help me recognize them again.
I remember the first time I could see the individual stars in the sky. It was mesmerizing. Then again, I also felt that way about being able to see the individual bits on roadways and driveways, and such.
I remember thinking I could see perfectly fine. But then I offhandedly mentioned to my parents that it was hard to see things even just halfway across the room. I thought that was normal. It was not, in fact, normal. They scheduled an appointment to get my eyes checked and a month or so later I had glasses. I was legitimately in shock from how clear everything was. Especially trees and things on screens. I was not aware I was supposed to see the individual leaves on trees until I got glasses. Nor was I aware I was supposed to be able to see the TV without being right in front of it
Same, trees really did it to me when I got my first glasses. I had no idea people didn’t just see big green blobs in the distance. I’m at -2.75 which is far from the worst but I always felt it was normal until I was probably 12 or so.
There's also a second level if you have a shitty eye dr like I did. When I went to college and got a new eye dr he was like "your previous prescription was way off, try this" and straight up blew my mind again.
I was on optics for 35 years. Years ago, honestly, many parents would not accept their child wearing spectacles. They denied it and forbid the child to have spex. Often we would take them onto the test room put plus lenses on front of them,xand say... " this is what your child can see, are you happy with this?" O was a type with -6.50 prescription... I didn't get spex til I was 12 years old, and i annoyed the teacher by asking if she could write bigger on the blackboard.!!!! Oddly, after that I started coming top of the class instead of much lower down.
I was 14 when I got glasses for the first time. I was -1.25 in both eyes, so it took a long time to convince my parents I needed to go to an eye doctor because I was reasonably able to function (both parents have perfect vision). The car ride home, I could see INDIVIDUAL BLADES OF GRASS in yards and the ditch, and I was SHOOK. I was so over-stimulated and had no idea people could see things like that from a distance.
I got mine when I was at -1.00 . And it was amazing for me as well. Didn't know I could see everything like the leaves on the tree and tiny small details which I wasn't able to before. My sister, who is still 6/6, said to me, you couldn't do that before? Never knew some people just had that clear of a vision, cause it's slow deterioraion, and you get used to it without realizing that something is wrong.
It was same for me, but I was 1.25 in one eye and 1.75 in the other. I literally couldn't stop talking about the stars and the moon that night, I literally spent an hour just staring at all the little details of the moon, it was awesome! Now I have to get my prescription updated cause I can no longer see it as clearly.
Yeah me too i was 12 years old, And i liked the thing that i can see the crack on my house's corner what was always there but i didn't see I felt so out of universe like thing when i experience this
I have to wear corrective lenses for one eye only. I never experienced as issue with being able to actually SEE, but I did have issues with headaches from things that require your eyes to actually cooperate with each other like reading, sewing, ect. It also explained why I walked around looking like Popeye half the time. No joke, I have one eye squinting in 90% of the pictures that were taken of me before we discovered the issue in college.
I remember as a kid not realizing you were meant to see things that far away. Writing on the overhead blurred by the projector, trees were giant green blobs. Glasses were the best thing ever. In my 40s I got LASIK, and being able to see my alarm clock is incredible
Not being able to tell what number of a bus is coming to the bus stop, or wondering whether that person approaching you is somebody you know or not, really sucks. Glasses remain to be one of my all time favorite inventions of mankind.
Had this a lot during my time in a swim team. It can be difficult to even tell even gender apart if it wasn’t for the bright colored swimsuits. So i’d memorize my friends by color of their swimsuit and would get thrown off when ever they got a new one. Did water polo for a bit too, but a BRIGHT YELLOW ball blends into the water. I could kind of tell where the ball was, but it made it hard enough to make water polo less enjoyable. Its the main reason why i didn’t stick with it after just a year compared to my swim team which i stuck with all of highschool and part of middleschool
One time my glasses were broken and I couldn't afford new ones until the next month, I 100% got on the wrong bus trying to get to work. And I'm only -4 in each eye
I will never forget seeing trees for the first time. They weren't just green blobs anymore, but hundreds of beautiful fluttering leaves. Still Captivating to me to this day as a 26 year old from my first pair at 12!
I will always remember the day I got contacts as a 12yo way back when( hard ones due to a stigmatism -5.00 and -5.50 soft ones tend to float too much). I looked at the individual leaves 🍃 on the trees 🌳, the blades of grass 🌱… Everything was so vivid! I value my sight and can’t imagine aging and losing the ability to see. ❤
And the worst part is it creeps up on you. I didn't even realize I was near-sighted until a friend and I went to a McDonalds and I couldn't read anything up on the menu board.
Totally! You have no basis for comparison, so there's no way to know. I got my glasses when I was six, so I was probably always nearsighted; I misidentified a bunch of trash bags as egrets so my dad took me to an optometrist. ;-)
@@blahaj784 I have really thick and dark douple layered eyelashes. I had a friend a few years ago with near-sidedness and she was so surprised when she came to school and saw that I didn't just have a darker coloured peice of skin on top of my eye; and actually had individual eyelashes. it was a good day.
I’m -10.5 in both eyes and I’ve never understood why my optometrist’s office insists that I take my contacts out in one room and then makes me walk clear to the other side of their large office around multiple corners to the exam room. They need to see this!
That was when my parents noticed that I need glasses, I was like the tree in the back looks like a green blob... the moment looking at the tree with my glasses and seeing the leaves, amazing.
yess i remember my first day with glasses back in 3rd grade and when I went outside for the first time with them the first thing out of my mouth was "Oh my gosh the trees are so cool"
When I got my first pair of glasses I was in awe to realize trees actually had visible leaves on branches instead of green cloud-like shapes. All while I knew what leaves were
I remember the day ,as an adult, that I was able to see the leaves again. I hadn't thought about that type of definition in so long. I felt unstoppable
I've been wearing glasses for more than 10 years since my childhood and I couldn't remember what i used to see before i wore them. Over the years my eyesight decreased and decreased everytime i went to see a doctor. I was so afraid to what's going to be happening in the future and I stopped going to the doctor. Over 4 months ago i had a laser surgery and the after view was mind blowing. I never thought that I would ever see without glasses. It was one of the best decisions i ever took
Yes! I’ve worn glasses since I was 7 and last year (20 years later) I had a special adjustment for my eye’s rotation or something. When I put on the new glasses I couldn’t believe how detailed everything was! I couldn’t stop staring at my radiator and the dents and detail of the spray silver paint 😆 So wearing glasses the first time and getting a really detailed adjustment will definitely cause happiness
It was beautiful. I've been wearing glasses and now contacts ever since third grade I believe. Everything was very blurry. Even while I was sitting on the scratchy carpet next to the whiteboard, I had to squint to comprehend everything. My teachers caught onto this and told my mom about it, and she brought me to the optometrist. Getting the prescription was scary at first, but once I did, we went to pick out a (pretty cringeworthy in retrospect) pair of glasses. Putting them on was like the difference between night and day. It felt like I could make out the most finite details-from the leaves in the trees to the hair on people's heads. Now, I love going to the optometrist every now and then. I just remember what I felt upon wearing glasses for the first time and I immediately know that new prescription will help my rapidly deteriorating eyesight immensely.
Started wearing glass in elementary school, then in my 30s I had Lasik. Say what you want about getting glasses and seeing clearly, it was even cooler to see the alarm clock the morning after my surgery from my pillow.
Got my first pair in elementary school, growing up poor means infrequently renewing the prescription... everytime was saddening as I realized my dependence. The world's wonders obscured from view, how much more am I missing?
I got home from the eye doctor on a clear night and could see the stars for the first time at 6. I stayed outside stargazing so long my mom came out to check on me
I'm an eye care professional and I can tell you that I fell in love with my job when I saw someone smile after getting their first pair of glasses. They looked at me like I was the first human face they'd ever seen. They were so excited. If I never make another difference in the world, I'm glad I made a difference in that person's life.
I can relate I didn't get glasses till I was a teen andalways squinted but no one questioned it because of my korean ethnicity. And when I got glasses it literally felt like my optometrist was the first human face I saw clearly in my entire life.
Yup- that's what it's like! I'm -9.5 in both and hate when I go to the eye doctor, and take out my contacts to do the other exam stuff and then they're like, go to the exam room. I friggin can't see and don't know where I'm going!
My dad lost most of his hearing to a virus, and started getting good results with hearing aids a few years ago. He once told me how nice it was to be able to simply turn them off when he needs to, especially to mitigate sensory issues. This makes me realize I feel the same way about my vision. It can be so comforting to take off the glasses and let the world go soft and fuzzy for a while.
It's just a bit too extreme for me to do that. A cream blob on the floor could be floor, rug, clothes or cat. Two of those are okay to step on, one is slippery and the last one really reacts badly when you put all your weight on them (sorry Oliver, but you were trying to attach yourself to my foot...)
I have both glasses and hearing aids...i got the hearing aids recently only since i was fine performer in school and college and then started to fail interviews since many HRs decided their throat is some precious jewel. .yet if i remove glasses, with or without hearing aids, i can't hear properly 😂.
Good reminder that poor vision is a disability that we often forget about! Glasses are a disability aide, and we should use that to be more compassionate to anyone who has an invisible disability.
Idk, as someone who's near sighted, it feels a little insensitive to compare what I deal with to what someone with a disability deals with. The reality is that I can "turn off" my bad vision with glasses, whereas someone with a true disability can't.
@@kk_612 well, not being able to see well is sort of a disability. You need your sight for everything. Also, you can’t fix it. Glasses doesn’t fix it, it temporarily removes the effect of not being able to see. So yes, it’s a physical disability
@@kk_612 If you lost access to glasses, severe nearsightedness would be debilitating. It’s definitely a disability once you get to a certain point. It only seems like ‘no big deal’ because you have easy access to something that ‘turns off’ the disability. If all places were wheelchair accessible, and wheelchairs were common and affordable, being in a wheelchair wouldn’t seem all that disabling.
@@kk_612 as was said already, having a disability aid doesn’t make something less of a disability. i’m very nearsighted and also have other disabilities, both physical and mental/developmental, and my bad vision is just as much of a disability as the others. it’s just normalized enough to not have as much stigma, and have commonplace treatment options like glasses, vision therapy, surgery, etc!
Yes, the last example, -10 was me in both eyes (for about 30 years) before my 2 cataract surgeries. 🤓 Eye Dr. told me it is common for severely nearsighted patients to need surgery 10 years before the “general” population. 👓 Now, I no longer need to wear my glasses for everything I do! I am so thankful, I am on the other side!!! 😊
I have loved being nearsighted. It feels like the world is quieter. But as it gets worse, I can feel a silence coming that I know I am not yet ready for.
I agree, my sister has asked me why I don't want laser eye surgery, it's unfathomable to me. I don't want contacts either. I love taking my glasses off, I always take them off to eat. Nothing bothers me when I take them off. I also have shelled out for the blue light filter and a prescription sunglass as of late. I am also almost certain I would need to do it again, my eyes are always a little worse at prescription time.
In the mornings, I like walking around without my glasses. I usually don't put them on until I actually have to get ready to go out. The difference between seeing the world when you first wake up - without your glasses - is so different than the world that greets you when you take them off after having worn them all day. Doubly so when you are an engineer thay stares at computer screens all day.
Moi's comment is underrated and easily misinterpreted. I'm at a -8 already, and I feel myself continuing to worsen, drifting towards that -10 he showed, possibly worse. The world is quieter, and it's closer to me without my glasses on. Sure, it feels nice when you wake up to have less details thrust at you. But the impending ominous feeling of knowing that it will be less and less detailed is not a comfort, and there is a line crossed, somewhere around -7 for me, where the loss of details becomes irredeemably harmful. Without wearing my glasses, I can't see doorknobs properly, I can't find my glasses when misplaced, what silverware I use is entirely based on muscle memory and feeling it. Once you hit that point, once that line is crossed, no longer is it a comforting world you wake up to. No longer is it one of quiet and peace. It grows more and more silent, more and more difficult, more and more uncaring as your vision worsens. It is past quiet here. It is growing silent by the day here, and I fear for the days more noiseless than today.
That sounds like some serious existential horror... I sometimes can't help but think about how our bodies are degenerating as we live, slowly inching closer to our death. But when I look in the mirror, thankfully I don't see it yet. You see that. I would be terrified. I hope that something can be done, like eye surgery. Or that somehow, something can comfort you. Science is ever progressing. What will hit the next milestone first? Your eyes seeing less, or science developing a new intervention? Maybe... Well, at the very least I hope that you had fun today(I'm writing at night). Maybe with an audio book like Moi recommended.
I do this as well haha. The only downside is accidentally bumping into everything because im so used to the depth perception with glasses on .... small price to pay
@@anoniukas i don't know the actual numbers of my prescription, i just know that -6 in this video was the first time I've seen anything close to how I see without my glasses represented. (Mine is worse than that but better than the -10 shown)
@@aliciacordero8399 Mine was -5 few years ago, now it's - 6 and it's not so bad as it is shown in the video. If I had that kind of vision, which is shown as -6 there, I would be affraid to walk around my house without glasses. But, yet, I can ride a bicycle without fear to run into the tree or a car f.e. 😃 Seing big texts and f.e. human faces in 2 + meter distance becomes a problem, of course.
I remember getting diagnosed when I was 4 with hypermetropia, my brother went to the optometrist for a checkup in case he needed glasses, I wanted to do one too cause my brother was doing it and it looked fun. Then the optometrist got scared and told my mom we needed to see an Ophthalmologist asap because I had a pretty severe problem. So she took me to a pediatric ophthalmologist, a female doctor who attended me until I turned 18. I remember that someone having the ability to make me actually see for the first time was really shocking to me, she was like a guardian angel in my 4 yr old head. So I decided at that moment I wanted to be a doctor. I still keep in touch now and then with her, sadly once in med school I never liked ophthalmology, I ended up as an Orthobro 😅.
Every near-sighted kid knows the absolute joy and wonder of seeing the individual leaves on trees for the first time when they get their first pair of glasses. Also, idk if it’s because of my astigmatism or if my “good eye” is just that much better at compensating, but does anyone else not experience a uniform degree of blurring like this video shows?
I remember at 11 years old, what it felt like to put on my first pair of far sighted glasses at night and look up to see individual stars, and have my heart practically skip a beat. To this day it was the most breathtaking think I had ever seen.
It took me actually 17 years to see the stars because I never wore glasses outside (I have -5.00 so with the help of friends and family I didn't feel the need to wear glasses in public) and never knew that stars were actually visible with the naked eye, I thought it was made up by movies and books. I also never really had close friends who'd tell me that. And up to a month ago (I'm almost turning 22) I didn't know planets were also visible... Every night with a clear sky I've been following Jupiter, Mars and Venus and I still can't believe that...
I had the same experience with trees... They just looked smooth to me. Then I got glasses and I could see every individual leaf sticking out, truly mesmerized me.
I’m near 8, but I wear contacts and glasses so often that I rarely have to deal with it, and kinda forget, so when I’m not wearing them, I can freak out a little, like, has it always been this bad? (no, steady decline) I’m really grateful for the technology that allows me to feel like I’m not as blind as I am. Thanks for showing this so others can have a little more understanding into what it’s like. And for me to be grateful for what I’ve got!
I remember being 5 or 6 and being told, based on my parents' vision, I'd likely be legally blind by age 10. I was terrified to go to the optometrist after that, and never went again until I was driving age. Rx was and remains fairly low, but the being able to see crisp detail 10ft away in the store was the first and best recollection of getting glasses, walking outside and seeing how much further I could still see detail just blew my mind
Was hoping you'd keep going. I am at -22 with astigmatism and thin retena - non operational. Thank God science has kept up with correcting my vision loss with gas perm!
Thing is, it feels normal, you just don't expect to see details past a certain point. And then someone hands you your first pair of glasses and you realise you are not the only person with uneven skin tones in the whole world...
I really feel this, as a kid I thought trees were meant to look like fluffy green clouds when you were a few car lengths away. I was fascinated when I got glasses that I could still see the individual leaves from far away!
I remember the first time I got glasses I was like, whoa, everything's in hd
@@katebeemakes I think every very near sighted person I know has a story about discovering leaves! I always thought it was kind of charming...now I'm not so sure!
when I was in middle school, I had no idea why I couldn't see the board until I complained to my mom (who's nearsighted) that I couldn't see it 😭
i collected my first pair of glasses at night. the whole ride home i was staring at the rim of the moon and only realized that the moon gives out a slightly blue light
My new optometrist saw my prescription the other day and said “I’ll introduce myself again when you can see my face, I know I’m just a talking blur right now”. It was the friendliest roast I’ve ever heard.
That’s cute ahahha
thats really wholesome and lovey, but like how scary can that be? like not knowing who youre talking to. sounds horrifying.
@@agriculturaldick Try not even seeing your partner's face in bed.
@@agriculturaldick It is lol
My optician said 'Ok now switch to HD'
Little side-fact: when you take off your glasses outside and come accross a person you know - you cannot see their faces, but you can identify them by their unique kind of movement. 😊
For me it was always hair. I can make out the shape. Incidentally, even when using corrective lenses I no longer recognize people when they get a haircut.
Legit this. I started needing glasses around 3rd or 4th grade, and I’d get a -1 added every year for the next five and then it slowed down a bit. I didn’t have spare glasses so when I wanted the new lenses to the old frames I literally walked around the school yard in the morning trying to recognize my four friends from their body size and how they moved. Got good at it and then bummer, my glasses were ready for pickup lol
So true. When I was in high school I didn’t wanna wear my glasses and I was -2.75 then. The only way I could tell who I was looking at was by their walk. Could spot it across campus. Even people I didn’t like lol
I know my family members and friends by their walk and how they walk. I can usually tell who it is before I see them. Also, I would just ignore people if I didn't have my glasses because I would have to get too close to see them well. I tend to memorize my spaces because if I lose my glasses while asleep I can't see well enough to find them.
I got -7
When I go outside without my glasses the only way I recognise anyone is when I hear my name and see a blob waving at me
When I got my first pair of glasses, it almost felt like I was on some sort of hallucinogenic drug lol. Everything was so textured and detailed and beautiful!
I love the feeling of going from no glasses -> dirty glasses -> clean glasses
It's like watching TV get upgraded from SD to HD to 4K
And overwhelming. Ugh.
It’s beautiful how detailed it is but at the same time it hurts my eyes because of the sharpen… i don’t like it lol
I got mine at 28. Got home, then realized how dirty my windows were. 😄
I knew my sight wasn't perfect, but I ignored it. Then my friends and I went for lunch, and one of them pointed to a guy she said was cute. I only saw a blurry face.
That reason alone made me go have my eyes checked.
As someone who once did shrooms right after getting a new prescription, this is so so true. Highly recommend
Have a friend with -14 on both sides. I only understood how bad that was until there was a sleepover and, as we were getting ready to sleep, he stopped me in a corridor to ask for toothpaste, and opened with "Hey, could you say a word? I can't tell who you are." We were at most elbow distance apart.
As someone with -10 I feel that. If it’s darker or everyone’s dressed the same or I don’t know the persons outfit for the day it’s really hard to tell people apart without glasses. You just gotta memorize “a is wearing hot pink and b had dark long hair and black pants on today” and hope no one else is dressed the same cuz that’s all you can make out.
@@macejetzer897 that makes sense. My friend was completely blindsided then, because we were in the process of changing to sleep clothes. A whole group of people to re-memorise for the evening.
@@S_Carol I see what you did there haha
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I was only -4 but with an astigmatism that made it very difficult to tell what I was looking at. I got LASIK and haven’t looked back!
Every near-sighted person knows that refreshing feeling when you get new glasses after your old ones weren't cutting it anymore and you look at a tree and everything is so crisp and clear
That's going to be me in a couple days as my glasses got delayed
@Dogrubb me too, mine get in on the 11th
Yes! And its like exclusively trees! Its almost like you used the sharpen tool to edit photos cuz you can see every leaf it almost looks weird
Frrr
The best feeling
I remember being in 4th grade and being confused at how all the other kids were able to read the whiteboard without being right in front of it, since I thought everyone had the same vision as me. Getting glasses for the first time is truly life-changing.
What got me my appointment was when I copied down the new vocabulary list from the board but found out I didn't have the same words as everyone else, lol.
I guess I squinted, so the teacher knew to put me near the front. Then the teacher tells the parents, and the parents go set up the eye doctor appt. Teachers are also the ones who normally notice a child not hearing properly; seems like daydreaming, but it's not necessarily.
For me it got worse in the 7th grade to a point where I could not see how much time we had left in an exam but I sat in front and I gaslighted myself not wanting to be Mr 4 eyes. Now I see clearly but I struggle with depth perception on my glasses
I used to fake blow my nose because the tissues were in front by the whiteboard. I didn't want to tell anyone I couldn't see so I would blow my nose and memorize everything on the board.
What feels awesome is when you eyes worsen but you dont realize until you get new glasses and all of the sudden everything is 4k
I can relate. It was the best feeling first time and the worst feeling. Because I rwalized how much damage I've done to my eyes :(
i didnt know bluelight did this man i wouldnt have been addicted so much if i had known my eyes had myopia@@Blue_Gym
when i first got glasses i had to relearn how to walk😭 then when i got new ones everything looked painted😭
As someone that is near sighted thank you for showing me what near sightness looks like, I would've had no idea otherwise
@@krygstem When I got my first glasses back in... sixth grade I think? I remember wondering at being able to see the individual leaves on a tree across the street.
@@Jallorn Same!
@@Jallorn I feel like activating HD mode in real life every time I put my glasses on.
@@Jallorn Same. That's the exact thing I always cite when asked about putting on glasses for the first time.
@@Jallorn YES!! Exactly this!! I'm legally blind now but am appreciative for what I was able to see for a while. ✌🏼
As a kid, I thought this was just how the world looked, but when my school notified my parents that I hadn't done well on their eye test, I was taken to an eye doctor. That's when we found out I was nearsighted.
When I put my glasses on for the first time, I cried. I didn't realize the world was actually pretty beautiful, and I was overjoyed to see the world as it truly is.
And then there’s me, who somehow didn’t get detected by the school vision tests until my mom realized I couldn’t read road signs before enrolling me in driver’s ed.
Literally same. I was like 5yrs old and cried cause I could finally see my beautiful mom. 😭
Nice I bet that makes uncle touching you pale in comparison
@@CeruleanWings wholesome
same thing happened with me. I got glasses when I was thirteen.
I got my first pair of glasses when I was 10 years old. I put them on and ran out of my optometrist’s office so I could look at the trees. Leaves! I saw leaves for the first time! I’d never seen so many shades of green together! So beautiful! I’ll never forget it.
Glad the feeling of seeing trees for the first time with glasses is universal
It's not. I don't even remember it. I just remember the glasses being uncomfortable.
Now, getting contacts for the first time - THAT was amazing.
My parents refused to have my eyes checked because they both had phenomenal eye sight. I learned to recognize people by the way they walked and other body language clues. They were shocked when at 12, the eye Dr. said, "She really can't see."
If a kid said to me they recognize people by their body language, I would wonder why not by the face.
I used to do that before my glasses, if a person was far away I couldn't recognize them till they were closer. But for my favorite people, I memorized what color they wore, body proportions and how they walk ECT.
Did your parents really think the eye doctor would affirm the assumptions? I just can't imagine not trusting what a child says about their own needs. If a kid says they need an iPad, that's one thing, but glasses? C'mon lol.
That's so weird, my parents both also have great eyesight, but i still got checked every year, which was great when i started to get nearsighted at age 13 (the fact that my grandma has been nearsighted her whole life didn't stop my parents from blaming it on my phone tho)
It's precisely how I could distinguish people. Color patterns, shapes, and their gait. Smells came later but only if within arms length.
@@rosalee477 I'm sorry, I can just imagine someone right now, walking up behind you, and you recognize them, but when they ask how, you just tell them they have a smell 💀
My best friend is nearsighted, and honestly, if this happened it would be hilarious
I stayed in this one camp, and my glasses got broken or whatever, and I had a week to go still and didn't want to bother my parents. So, by the end of that week, my friends and teachers (who were pretty new to me) I could tell apart by manner of walking. And of some ppl I saw all the time - I learnt all their T-shirts and could tell them apart based on these big color stains moving dozens of feet away. It's insane how adaptive our brains are.
One thing we all have in common is that when we all got our first pair of glasses is being amazed at the fact you can see every individual leaf on the trees for the first time and them not just being fuzzy green blobs, so beautiful 🥺
how I ghetto test if I need new glasses is I see if I can see clear lines on the house at the end of the street. whenever the colors blend together, i go to the eye doc and get new glasses
So true!!!
Literally the first thing I told my mom about when I got my first glasses. "I can see the leaves!"
Yes! That's what struck me first, too! It's the first thing I said in the car on the way home.
Yes! I was so happy being able to see leaves. I’m just a little worse than -10 in both now and had to laugh at this video
This is such a great example of extreme near- sightedness. Before eye surgery my vision was -10.5 in my right eye And -11.5 in my left. Surgery was like a miracle.
Did it cure it or reduce it?
@PhanteonOP Almost completely cured it. Of course, it couldn't keep my eyes from aging. 25 years later, I have glasses to help with minor astigmatism and farsightedness.
@@waltermoon1241congrats man... I have -16 on right and -16.5 on left with high axis and astigmatism
@lucifertheend So, I'm guessing your vision is actually too bad to be addressed by Lasik eye surgery. I'm sorry. Do your glasses do a good job helping you to navigate the world?
Like, can you drive?
@lucifertheend God, that sounds terrible. My eyesight is only -6.00 and I literally fall into a depressive state and don't want to do anything when I don't have my glasses. I can't imagine how awful -16 or generally anything higher than my eyesight is. I hope you have or obtain the resources to help you navigate through life the best you can ):
Thank you so much for showing that last one. I'm severely near-sighted and rarely see (pun not intended) examples of myopia to this extent. Really appreciate it, and love your work!
I repeated the 2nd grade because teachers thought I had a learning disability.
Half way though 2nd grade i was put in special ed. It was table work, no blackboard. Within 3 months I was reading and writing at a 6th grade level.
Turns out I was just nearsighted. That school taught 100% of lessons on the blackboard. The look of guilt on my mom's face at the optometrist was unforgettable.
Yeah most sight problems are discovered by teachers/at school
Shout out to my 1st grade head teacher who discovered my near sightedness, and later became my little sister's head teacher and discovered her near sightedness as well
My second grade math/science teacher is the one who realized i was near sighted. I remember not being able to read from one of those projectors that used the laminated sheets, so he zoomed in a couple times before the words were basically 3 words on the screen. He became the elementary school teacher 2 years ago. Very proud of him and to have been taught by him :D
For me it was my grandma who noticed, I used to watch tv at her place and she said I always narrowed my eyes, my mom took me to many different optometrists and they said it was only a habit, I don’t need glasses. Turns out I did, still do, the last optometrist said I needed glasses for someone with -2.5. Now, 12 years later I have -10.5 on the left eye and -9.5 on the right. I’m planning to get surgery once I’m between 23 and 25 years old
I took my son to a regular pediatrician and he was “fine”. My daughter 11 needed new glasses so I made an appointment for my 5 year old at the same time. ( Why not? Our insurance covers one exam a year) Yep! He needs glasses! One eye is weaker so he actually had “crowding effect” so his brain was having issues focusing on words but could see single letters in isolation. He would have ended up with reading problems.
At least she brought you
I'll never forget the feeling I had when I put on my glasses for the first time. I looked outside of the window of my optician and I could actually see the leaves of the trees in full detail. I remember never wanting to take them off again, ever. It's amazing how much my right eye (-0,5 at that time) compensated for my left eye (-1,75). I honestly wouldn't have realized that I had needed glasses if I didn't need an eye exam for my drivers licence.
that's is exactly my experience, when I was like 3rd grade. I looked out of the window and was amazed I saw leaves on the trees! now I'm at almost -8. ughh
Same, I stared at the grass and was stunned to see individual blades of grass. Also. The stars at night, omg, so pretty even if there are hardly any stars visible through the light pollution.
It's always the leaves. First thing I remember getting my glasses as a kid. LEAVES!!!!
Same with me when i first got my glasses during elementary school i was like: everyone sees everything in such detail everyday??
Befote having glasses (-3.7 and - 1.5) I could not understand why would they do such small letters. And I thought I could not see things because I am short.
I got my first glasses in boot camp. I remember putting them on and being so amazed at how everything looked. I couldn't believe other people could see things like without glasses. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.
I am currently a -4.57 and when I first mentioned not being able to see my parents didn't believe me for a year of me insisting. When I first went to an eye doctor my doctor went "oooohhh... yeahhhhh... she really needs glasses" lol. I love this video and showing people with decent vision how hard it REALLY is
Idk maybe sometjings off with my scale but I don't really need glasses at that scale it's just very healthy for me to use them ig it's an illusion my brain does
When your very nearsighted, new glasses are the best. Imagine not being able to see anything clearly less than a foot away from you and then suddenly being able to see every leaf on a tree. It's incredible.
it saddens me that it always seems to fade though.
I love being able to finally see the leaves but it's like after a week I can't any longer
Exactly, I was observing leaves on the trees
I still remember the majesty and sensory overload the first time I put on a proper pair of glasses and saw every single leaf on a tree in sharp detail, all moving independently in the wind. I knew what they are, what they were up close... but 'tree' to me had been 'big shimmery green blob' before.
I feel like the leaves on trees is a universal experience for nearsighted people... It was what struck me the most when I first got glasses too
Ngl I hate new glasses for this exact reason. There's a sort of comfort for me in not being able to see details. If you can't see them for long enough you stop looking for them. And then you suddenly get new glasses and everything is suddenly in focus. It's a lot and I don't like it
I remember the first time I had my first pair of glasses. I didn't realize that the traffic lights weren't supposed to be blurry and I didn't know that the trees could be seen in such details. We went to pick up my prescribed glasses late in the evening and once I put them on our way back home, I was so amazed and I was on the verge of crying because of how beautiful everything was.
No offense but that is a load of crap. Either you were born with poor eye sight and have no recollection of your first pair. OR you, like most people had perfect vision that progressively got worse. You knew how things were supposed to be before your eyesight went bad. It's one thing to get used to not seeing details, its another thing to pretend that you had never seen those details before.
It was the trees for me 😂
I loved looking at the aspen leaves and cumulus clouds. I got new glasses during monsoon season in Flagstaff, az. I loved looking at every detail.
I was like 9 when I got my first pair of glasses. I'd been complaining for a while, but my mother just assumed I was trying to copy my brother who had also just recently got glasses. A teacher of mine noticed I was squinting at the board and she said something that prompted the visit finally.
My mother then took me to Walmart to pick up some things on the way home. I was ASTOUNDED that there were signs with words, and proceeded to read every single one of them out loud. "Mom! That one says Electronics!" The amount of excitement must have made me look like a lunatic.
Every time I got a new pair of glasses as a kid it was always trees - seeing every leaf was a revelation
-4.5 in both eyes. Glad that the last two exams I had the worsening stopped (at least for now). It’s a whole different kind of fight for your life when you’re trying to just move around your own damn house without contacts in 😭
Glasses all the way for me. No need to bother with time limit of contacts, no need to worry about eye infections from leaving them on too long, and no need to stick stuff on my eyeballs which i really don’t like the idea of. I don’t mind the downsides of glasses too much such as the fogging up, needing to clean them occasionally, or the potential of breaking them at random.
I'm at a -4 in one eye, -3 in the other. It's like the floor meets my face without glasses and lights are so blurred.
I feel ya
I recall looking out from the optometrists office and seeing the individual tree leaves of the Japanese maple in the parking lot and being shocked; I had no idea people could see so far away
It was really hard for me to know I was nearsighted, you don't realize you lose a lot of detail until you can't read your professor's slides or can't read street signs until you get close enough.
yep
the plus side is wearing glassess for the first time after ur diagnosis feels so good. I remember seeing all the trees like "wtf I can see individual leaves"
Omg same, I remember being able to see the texture of the bricks on a building across the yard in school
Exacly !
Similar story, being able to see the blades of grass from the bus window.
Those were the exact two ways I realized! I only needed them every now and then before. Now I’m -3.00 and I can’t recognize faces clearly across a room without my contacts. Can’t wait til my scrip is steady enough to laser them.
I got glasses in 6 th grade for nearsightedness. I still remember walking out of the optometrist's with my new glasses and marvelling that I could see the leaves on the trees (not just a green blob) and I could read the various store signs and such around. It was a whole new world!
I too got my glasses in 6th grade and I was absolutely mesmerized for a good 15 minutes just contemplating the leaves on the trees through my parents' bedroom window. I was dumbfounded that i could see something that was some 150 meters away
And seeing the individual pieces of grass
I dont remember the days when I didn't need glasses 😭 I had it since I started elementary school.
@@sofiabranco8544 Is it just 6th grade is the time people realize you actually need glasses? I got mine in 6th after my mom was called in by my teacher who was accusing me of cheating and in the middle of this -I burst out yelling that I wouldn't need to copy the questions off the idiot next to me if he just printed out his test questions like a moderately prepared adult or let me sit in the front row like I asked and every other teacher had before and it should be obvious my answers were different.
So an optometrist visit later I had glasses for nearsightedness and astigmatism in both eyes.
Leaves on trees! Yes! And I’m only -1.25!
Vision is what everyone doesn't care about until they lose it. Take care of your eyes and get outside sometimes. It doesn't come back once it's gone.
I feel like this statement could be applied to many things that are health related... but also completely agree with you too.
Sure, but you don’t have that much control over it. Even if someone follow a your advice to go outside and is careful about screen time and they can still be nearsighted. And nobody with the vision in the video has “lost” their vision - all of that is corrected to normal levels.
This is a ridiculous statement to make. You have absolutely no control over if you become short-sighted or not. Genetics plays a big role in it.
The only way you can have control over your eyesight is if you do a lot of close vision work (ie computer, embroidery, writing, etc). And even then you can do all the preventative things and still need reading glasses
@@LM-ny2pywhat role do genetics have in the progression of nearsightedness? I’ve always heard people say genetics but they can never back up their claims with quite literally anything.
@rip02 Genetics and your eyesight is a very complex issue. It is not as straightforward as, say the genetic abnormality which causes cystic fibrosis. Problems with your eyesight is more of a familial trait with several sections of different chromosomes contributing to it (similar to eye or skin colour or height). Hence, they say it runs in the family.
However, there are also other contributing environmental factors which may also affect your eyesight.
Myself, my mum, my maternal grandmother, two of my maternal aunts, and two of my maternal cousins are all short-sighted.
I have been short-sighted since I was 8, but once I started at university (and heavily "exposed" to computers) I now also need reading glasses - especially if I am doing any sort of close-up work for an extended period of time.
At -7 in each eye this is awesome to be able to show my family how I actually see without my glasses. Pro tip if you can't find your glasses try using the camera on your phone. It works fantastic!
In Grey's anatomy, Erica Hahn explained it so well.
"because the big green blobs that I had been staring at my whole life, they weren't big green blobs. they were leaves on trees."
I cried for weeks after getting My glasses, because I never knew how beautiful snow falling actually is.
for me it was candle flames/lights. I always thought that were just these blurry balls. Seeing a flame on one of my moms candles clearly for the first time felt so lifechanging for no reason
When I got my first pair I remember saying "wow, the carpet has spots"! I was 13 and I'd known that carpet since I was 10!
I was a leaves kid. Trees were just those brown amd green broccoli looking things. And then my first pair of glasses in the 1st grade showed me the plethora of leaves attached to each one.
@@TheWonderpup6 Yess! Seeing each individual leaf from a distance was amazing! Until I was 13, I always just assumed leaves from a distance looked like blurry fuzz balls
@@rainestar82t is. Fire and flames are life, warmth and passione
I remember showing my mom an ex of how the world looked to me. My script is -4 and I took a picture from a vacation we went on and blurred it to about the same blurriness that everything looked to me. I kept taking my glasses on and off to make sure it was right. My mom felt so bad. She really didn't understand until I showed her that 😅
That is a really creative way to share your literal POV
Well done
I get that. If you take a video through your glasses, tap for it to focus, then remove the glasses, you get a similar blur. I showed my mom a picture of how I saw Disney without my glasses. I had to take them off for a ride and showed her so she would understand why I needed my sister to guide me. She cried and said she was sorry I had to live that way.
Did that in Photoshop. My mum also has bad eyes, farsighted astigmatism - and she happens to have both + and - in each eye, - sph and +cyl
Optometrists are usually helpless with her but ironically, while she has -8 in one eye she still sees better than me when it comes to seeing stuff far away, and I only have -3. She also has insanely good colour perception. When I showed her how I see using the same trick she was also shocked, because for her it was always "too small", not "too far away", and she's shocked how I can read tiny print up close without glasses
I'm really glad you did something like this because I'm 20/20 and was always kind of curious about how they see. Thanks for showing. Kind of gives an understanding what they have to go through.
Any time i get asked "oh wow, so what CAN you see?" In the last year, i just pull up this video.
-14 on left, -11 on right. It's like I'm wearing microscopes.
Woah...
Once in high school, one of my sister's friends came in the front door while I was reading sans glasses, about an inch from the end of my nose. I looked up, knew it was him by his voice, but couldn't tell what largish thing he was holding. I asked him what he was holding and in a funny voice he said, "uhh... A guitar."
Samesies, dude! Was -14 in one eye and -12 in the other before permanent contact lenses and lasik in 2016. Holy cannoli, are our eyes bad
@@amandaarmstrong9900 did lasik helped u? I am thinking of getting it but the dr said the max they can get my prescription to is a -8. I am currently at -15, -14
@@DramasAddict4Life i was -12.00, they did manage to get me to 0.00. I think it depends on the thickness of your cornea or something like that
Doesn't stop 4th graders from waving a hand 2 ft from your face and ask how many fingers they're holding up.
Considering I also suffer from double vision, classmates had a fun time testing my depth perception with this one.
They dont understand how bad vision works. If they're holding up 4 fingers I see 4 blurry fingers.
just say "5 in Roman numerals"
Every time
I had a strong urge to bite those fingers
Might've tried to once even
I still do
I'm 26
I work at as an optical assistant and at least once a week when a parent brings their kid along whilst picking up glasses, the kid will do exactly did. Got to a point a few days ago when a kid (who didn't even need glasses) asked me to try it with him, so I held out one hand with all my fingers open and hid my other hand behind my back with one finger unfurled. When he said 5, I pulled my other hand around.
I had glasses from age 5 - 25. I got Lasik 12/30/2016. When I say that the world made me cry from its beauty, it's not an exaggeration. I have astigmatism in both eyes, nearsighted to a -7.25 on my left eye and a -3 on my right eye.
While Lasik did enable me to see the world for what it actually is, it couldn't do anything for my astigmatism. I still have large halos around any light, even in the daytime. Nighttime is way more difficult for driving, but at least I can see what color the stoplight is (not colorblind, the halos just obscured everything). I had a couple of abrasions on my eye in May and they messed with the Lasik site. I'm back to seeing 'normally', but the distance I can see has reduced. It's not majorly significant, but by golly, I can notice it.
Ya'll don't understand how hard it is living with 144p resolution
Lmao 🤣
Yeees
That how i always describe it
Exactly lmao
Same 🥺😭
Yeah it sure sucks
when you finally put your glasses on and the world starts to render properly
rtx 3090 or glasses? you can only turn up one of the graphics....
Dude that's true
😂🔥
So people with short sighted see in 720p and 144p
when i put in contacts for the first time it was magical
I vividly remember the car ride home. I think I was 7 or 8 at the time.
I personally have -3 and I can’t read anything and stuff blends in far away (without glasses) but for -10 I feel so bad.
Really makes normal sighted people appreciate the invention of glasses, so many people would not be able to function if it weren't for them. My mother has -7 and I don't even think that she has a bad vision until she takes off her glasses and asks about something 5 meters in front of her
5 meters? your mom is a pro at recognizing blurred things, -7 is when you stop seeing at 25 cm away from face!
@@cookieruntranslations thats not rly how it works. im -6 and i can see the things that are far away from me but i just cant see any details besides general shape and color. but i take my glasses off at home all the time just cuz i hate wearing them 24/7. i can function fine. i just cant read or drive or watch tv from the couch lol. i literally cook dinner without glasses sometimes. its not quite as debilitating as u think.
I'm just 21 and my eyesight is so bad. 😭 -7 in my right eye and -7.75 in my left.
Tbh i have just watched a documentary on this and actually glasses were invented a long-long time ago. People just almost never needed them, only chirch people(not native, sorry), becouse they were pretty much only ones, who did all the reading and writing. And people used to have a better sight in general.
@@tianwardle4047 My eye sight is terrible too. I'm 14 and I have -9.50 in my right eye and -10.00 in my left eye.
The worst part of being near-sighted is that when you drop your glasses, you need your glasses to FIND YOUR GLASSES
Yea remember putting mine down like right next to me forgetting about them then hunting for them for like 12 minutes
Jinkies!
Lololol gold
I have see through glasses which makes it even harder lol
i use my phone camera when this happens LMAO
I got glasses in second grade and it was amazing. I don’t think anyone ever forgets what it was like to see the world properly for the first time. Unfortunately, between 4th and 6th grade, I needed a new prescription every six months by a significant margin-I had to get an MRI because they thought I could have a tumor! Thankfully, they didn’t find anything wrong, but it wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I went a full year without getting a new prescription. Two years and even more vision issues and literal headaches later, I’ve discovered that my eyes don’t properly focus on their own, especially when I’m wearing my contacts, so I have to use reading glasses on top of those. My current doc recommended that solution, but it sound like I might be needing bifocals before I’m 30.
I was a -6 before my husband paid for my lasik surgery and to this day I am still in awe that these are my own eyes. 🥺
I remember when I got my first pair of glasses I was actually amazed at all the details I hadn’t seen for ages. Like seeing strands of hair from far away or making out color nuances. I was actually so protective of my glasses I kept cleaning them like every 5 minutes
And I was the dork who wore them since first grade 💀
I remember looking at trees and clouds for hours when I first got them. Kinda sad the magic wore off after a while, but it was such a pleasant feeling.
Personally, I was shocked by the beauty of trees. The leaves but especially the bark !
@@banbrotherhood First thing I did on the ride back home after picking them up was just stare and read the traffic signs the first time since many years. It was really interesting
I remember I looked at a tree from far away and was shocked I could see every branch and leaf and the grass had texture and it was so amazing
I remember the day I got my glasses, I was very young, and the office we went to was right across the street from a lake. As I walked out with my new glasses I could see across the lake and exclaimed to my Father "Wow! Are those birds?! Look, Daddy! Birds!"
Looking back on it now it probably was cute to my Dad to see how excited I was just about the geese across the pond. I don't remember his reaction beyond him saying that there were indeed birds there, because I was so enamored with the world.
More like a stab to his heart. Parents usually report it hurts them a lot when they realize their kid has been blindish and they hadn’t noticed or cared
I was stunned to discover license plates were really bright and clear
Isn’t it nice to be able to fall in Love with the world again each time we get new glasses?
My mum was shocked I was like "MUM! I can read all the signs!" and then I read a bunch of signs really far away in the store that she herself couldn't read. It's been nearly 25 years and after every new pair it's been "ooh that sign is so crisp" "look at the leaves on the tree" "I can see individual trees on the mountains several kilometers away!"
For me it was failing the eye test for my learner's permit. However my sister was like 5. Across the street from the eye doc was the county courthouse with lots of trees in the lawn. My sister remarked that there were so many different shades of green in the trees from all the individual leaves. Before they were just a green blurry blob. That comment had stuck with me 40 years later now
Thank you for doing this video. I always have trouble explaining my sight problems to my hawk-eyed friends 😅
Just got my glasses I see in 4k now. I didn't realize how beautiful the world around me was I wanna go re experience everything now
I KNOW RIGHTTT
I still remember getting my first glasses and I had only -1, there's nothing that compares to the feeling of seeing the world in ultra HD for the first time
we pay to see the world 😎
I used to have 20-20 vision... I think I've got -1 nearsighted vision now cause it was so accurate to what i see now
It’s like a breath of fresh air every time you get a new pair
Right?? I had such a headache and actually couldn’t stand it for like a month..
I used to be 20/20 but i’m like .5-.75 now i think. it’s so odd lmao
Being near sighted is realizing trees don't look like fuzzy blobs from a little distance away and you're supposed to be able to read from a few feet away. Never will forget getting my first pair of glasses, it was like seeing in 4k.
I’m curious, how old were you getting your first glasses? I was pretty young so I don’t remember lol
@@9cloudrachel207 I think I was around 14 or 15
Yes when I first realized I need glasses and actually got them it was like 4k
OMG TREE LEAVE WERE THE FIRST THING I NOTICED WHEN I GOT GLASSES TOO!!!! (19)
true bro i got my glasses when i was like 14 or 13 i know i was a little too young to get glasses but when i first got it i was like blown away i was astonished by the detail on the wood the leaves and everything i was like i am in an another dimension where the world is in 4k
Oh my god, this puts everything into perspective. I’m -4.25 bilaterally. I had no idea how bad it is for the poor souls with anything above the 6, which is bad enough. Thank you for sharing this!!!!
I still remember getting my first pair of glasses, and realizing that the world wasn't a painting by Monet, and that trees had individual leaves not just blobs of colour.
I am going to stop whining about occasionally needing to wear reading glasses.
Yeah everything gets kinda blurry past my elbow
I wasn’t excited when the optometrist told me I’m also beginning to lose that
I’m farsighted and I can’t read labels without glasses and this happened in the span of a year. I hate it 😢
It depends on the severity but my eyes are between -1 and -2 (one eye is slightly better then the other).
And at that low level it’s barely a inconvenience.
I see great close and to a pretty far distance.
Without glasses I still see the tv as fine as with glasses. But a little further than a normal distance most people have been the TV and where you sit is where my vision starts to get blurry.
So if I drive I have to have glasses, both by law and I would never imagine driving without them because that seems extremely stupid. For a lecture or presentation, I need my glasses. Or they need to use a new pen that you can see well on the white board.
Or if I go to a the cinema or watch a play, I need to bring my glasses.
But otherwise if I forget my glasses at home, which I do once in a while. It’s fine.
And being able to lay on the couch or bed and not need the glasses on to read is nice.
Once I hit forty, I needed reading glasses. I'll fall asleep with them on, and have red indents on the sides of my nose. I have to remember to take them off when I get up to walk around, cuz then I'd trip!
@@lapislazarus8899 yep. My distance vision is still good. I use "Costco readers" (3 for $16?) And I generally look over them when I'm not reading. I also, fall asleep with them on sometimes. Spring-loaded sides leave a small indention just above my ear. But it lets me read easily. So there's that.
When I was 13, I told my mom that I might be nearsighted. It wasn't that bad then. She just scoffed and said "Why don't you watch TV late at night now? ". So I never raised the question again. And before my 10th boards, she saw me reading my book like with literally an inch distance and decided to get a eye check up. Had -5.4 and -5.6 power and when I got my first pair of glasses, the whole ride home, I watched the night sky and realized that the moon is shiny and not a blob of paint over the sky and there are stars in the sky literally distances apart, not fused together. It was like surreal for me, to be able to read the blackboard from the last bench and being able to see farther distances.
got emotional reading this😭 but it's really so surreal to actually see with my glasses too. i envy good sighted people so much
@@duhsaki5459 yea, they just wake up and SEE while we wake up and need glasses to SEE BETTER
I have somewhat a same story like you, I literally felt that I am into a new world after wearing glasses
I doubt this is true
Im -6 on both eyes, and i literally couldnt make out anything on the whiteboard from the first bench, even when i had -3. It was *impossible*
So fucking relatable....sitting on the last bench copying your friend's notes cause couldn't see the board😭😂...even in the tests, copying *only the questions*😂😂.... I got my pairs in my 8th grade with -2.5....tbh I know since 5th grade that I can't see properly.... it take me 3 years to tell my parents that i cant see cause i changed the school and i leave my buddy in the previous school and here is no one who can show their notebook to me while sitting on the last bench....now I am in 2nd year with -4.25... But when I got my glasses... My father used to told me...give some rest to your eyes ( by putting my glasses off) but the thing is i feel relaxed while wearing them....seeing everything so clearly is a beautiful experience....😊 :_)
One of the best things an optometrist ever did in going above and beyond for me was to take the little lens that did this sort of thing to exactly my level, and took that to my mom. She had always been as understanding as she could be with my complaining when I didn’t have glasses (which wasn’t super often, so I didn’t get used to it) - but it helped her SO much to be even more understanding when she looked at my uncorrected world. (Her words: “Oh, you’re BLIND.”) She still doesn’t like complaining in general, of course, but boy did she ease up on me after that. (Well. A little; she’d already been pretty gentle if a bit exasperated.)
I was -10 in each eye at birth. Until I was 22 when I got Lasik eye surgery done that changed my life , It’s been about 15 years since I got it done and i see with perfect vision. I thank all the scientists and 😊doctors in the vision world. Keep up the good work
the best part about being nearsighted is you don’t know what you’re missing out on until the damn dr factory resets your vision during the exam 😂
😂😂😂😂 I get new prescription every year so I feel you. 500 and up for 2 pairs.
Then the floor be eating your feet as you adjust to this new update
"How's that" "oh god put it back it's so detailed i got a headache"
@@mallowhoney OMG that's so true
i got glasses a year or so ago and i was like "damn, i was blind"
People always call me snobby because I didn't say hi to them from afar. Ma'am I did not even recognize you. If anybody waves at me, I wave back even though I have no idea who they are.
It's a problem in crowds lol
I do the same! Better to be mistaken than being rude! But I still tell people to say hi to me first, because otherwise I'm probably not going to notice.
Wave at random people to have an excuse to approach them. The near-sighted gambit.
Question: why do you guys not wear glasses?
I've had that problem too in places where I don't wear my glasses, like at the pool. But even when I do wear my glasses other places I still don't recognize people. I have what is called face blindness.
Which means that even though I can see fine with my glasses on I retain little to no memory of their face. I recognize them by context instead. What door did they just come out of, etc. Or by the way they walk. Or by what their voice sounds like.
But if I see someone in a different place and they don't say anything and aren't moving I have no idea who they are.
I wonder if I learned to recognize people that way because those are the things I could see as a child. Maybe I never learned to remember faces because I couldn't see tham as a child.
But whatever the cause, people don't appreciate when we don't acknowledge that we know them. I'm with you on that.
So I've actually started telling new people flat out that I'm face blind if we have a nice conversation. I tell them that I won't recognize them if I see them again unless I hear their voice. So, I encourage them to just say hi to me first and then I will recognize them. It's a bit awkward. But it lets people know that I value them enough to tell then how to help me recognize them again.
I remember the first time I could see the individual stars in the sky. It was mesmerizing. Then again, I also felt that way about being able to see the individual bits on roadways and driveways, and such.
Thank you! My husband is near sighted with a like -11 or something and it's crazy to finally see what he sees!
I remember thinking I could see perfectly fine. But then I offhandedly mentioned to my parents that it was hard to see things even just halfway across the room. I thought that was normal. It was not, in fact, normal. They scheduled an appointment to get my eyes checked and a month or so later I had glasses. I was legitimately in shock from how clear everything was. Especially trees and things on screens. I was not aware I was supposed to see the individual leaves on trees until I got glasses. Nor was I aware I was supposed to be able to see the TV without being right in front of it
The tree part is real af, first time i got glasses i the first major thing that i noticed was the leaves on the trees, really beautiful tbh
I still remember seeing blades of grass for the first time while still standing. It was such an incredible experience.
Same, trees really did it to me when I got my first glasses. I had no idea people didn’t just see big green blobs in the distance. I’m at -2.75 which is far from the worst but I always felt it was normal until I was probably 12 or so.
There's also a second level if you have a shitty eye dr like I did. When I went to college and got a new eye dr he was like "your previous prescription was way off, try this" and straight up blew my mind again.
Now imagine being the other way around. It sucks to begin losing your eyesight and seeing less details as you get older. It sucks.
Every time I get new lenses, it's like the world turns from SD to HD. Grass changes from a carpet to individual blades. It's amazing.
Yeah
Yeah 😂😂
so relatable
Couldnt have explained it better 😂 feel you bro
More like 4k hd
I was on optics for 35 years. Years ago, honestly, many parents would not accept their child wearing spectacles. They denied it and forbid the child to have spex. Often we would take them onto the test room put plus lenses on front of them,xand say... " this is what your child can see, are you happy with this?" O was a type with -6.50 prescription... I didn't get spex til I was 12 years old, and i annoyed the teacher by asking if she could write bigger on the blackboard.!!!! Oddly, after that I started coming top of the class instead of much lower down.
The only thing missing is everything becoming crisp and perfectly clear once you're close enough
I was 14 when I got glasses for the first time. I was -1.25 in both eyes, so it took a long time to convince my parents I needed to go to an eye doctor because I was reasonably able to function (both parents have perfect vision). The car ride home, I could see INDIVIDUAL BLADES OF GRASS in yards and the ditch, and I was SHOOK. I was so over-stimulated and had no idea people could see things like that from a distance.
I got mine when I was at -1.00 . And it was amazing for me as well. Didn't know I could see everything like the leaves on the tree and tiny small details which I wasn't able to before.
My sister, who is still 6/6, said to me, you couldn't do that before?
Never knew some people just had that clear of a vision, cause it's slow deterioraion, and you get used to it without realizing that something is wrong.
It was same for me, but I was 1.25 in one eye and 1.75 in the other. I literally couldn't stop talking about the stars and the moon that night, I literally spent an hour just staring at all the little details of the moon, it was awesome! Now I have to get my prescription updated cause I can no longer see it as clearly.
Yeah me too i was 12 years old,
And i liked the thing that i can see the crack on my house's corner what was always there but i didn't see
I felt so out of universe like thing when i experience this
I always sat in the front row of school. Because I couldn't see the whiteboards.
I have to wear corrective lenses for one eye only. I never experienced as issue with being able to actually SEE, but I did have issues with headaches from things that require your eyes to actually cooperate with each other like reading, sewing, ect. It also explained why I walked around looking like Popeye half the time. No joke, I have one eye squinting in 90% of the pictures that were taken of me before we discovered the issue in college.
I remember as a kid not realizing you were meant to see things that far away. Writing on the overhead blurred by the projector, trees were giant green blobs. Glasses were the best thing ever. In my 40s I got LASIK, and being able to see my alarm clock is incredible
It’s crazy I came across this. I just got eye surgery last week where they put contacts inside my eyes (ICL Surgery). My vision was a -14.
Not being able to tell what number of a bus is coming to the bus stop, or wondering whether that person approaching you is somebody you know or not, really sucks. Glasses remain to be one of my all time favorite inventions of mankind.
Same just wish they weren't so damn expensive
Had this a lot during my time in a swim team. It can be difficult to even tell even gender apart if it wasn’t for the bright colored swimsuits. So i’d memorize my friends by color of their swimsuit and would get thrown off when ever they got a new one. Did water polo for a bit too, but a BRIGHT YELLOW ball blends into the water. I could kind of tell where the ball was, but it made it hard enough to make water polo less enjoyable. Its the main reason why i didn’t stick with it after just a year compared to my swim team which i stuck with all of highschool and part of middleschool
One time my glasses were broken and I couldn't afford new ones until the next month, I 100% got on the wrong bus trying to get to work. And I'm only -4 in each eye
I will never forget seeing trees for the first time. They weren't just green blobs anymore, but hundreds of beautiful fluttering leaves. Still Captivating to me to this day as a 26 year old from my first pair at 12!
That was my first thought too, still don't use glasses tho xD
Me too
That was me too! I was a sophomore in high school and walking out of the optometrist It was amazing, seeing all the details on the trees!
loll I was literally screaming on the way to home when I got my glasses 🤣🤣🤣
EXACT same experience. I was 13. I distinctly remember being like THE TREES HAVE LEAVES FROM BACK HERE???! 🌳 😅
My last eyedoctor appointment told me I got -5.00 in one eye and worse in the other. I did not know what that meant till now. Thank you lmao
I will always remember the day I got contacts as a 12yo way back when( hard ones due to a stigmatism -5.00 and -5.50 soft ones tend to float too much).
I looked at the individual leaves 🍃 on the trees 🌳, the blades of grass 🌱… Everything was so vivid! I value my sight and can’t imagine aging and losing the ability to see. ❤
And the worst part is it creeps up on you. I didn't even realize I was near-sighted until a friend and I went to a McDonalds and I couldn't read anything up on the menu board.
Exactly this !!😂 In my case it was a menu at Thai Express
Totally! You have no basis for comparison, so there's no way to know. I got my glasses when I was six, so I was probably always nearsighted; I misidentified a bunch of trash bags as egrets so my dad took me to an optometrist. ;-)
@@calliarcale "Wait. I thought everyone's vision got blurry after a few feet."
@@TacitPoseidon you do realise that people don't get -10 instantly, right?
@@ved3046 Of course I do. That's what I'm saying
As someone who has -4.00 sight, it’s unbelievable how clear you can see leaves on trees the first time you wear contacts
-6.45 in one -4 in the other first time with contacts felt like I was seeing in 4k
Leaves on trees! That was what surprised me when I first got glasses! I didn’t know you were supposed to be able to see that detail
@@blahaj784 I have really thick and dark douple layered eyelashes. I had a friend a few years ago with near-sidedness and she was so surprised when she came to school and saw that I didn't just have a darker coloured peice of skin on top of my eye; and actually had individual eyelashes. it was a good day.
It’s always the leaves! I also was surprised when I realized that most people could actually see leaves from pretty far away.
The detail on carpet was just like turning on high graphics with ray tracing
I’m -10.5 in both eyes and I’ve never understood why my optometrist’s office insists that I take my contacts out in one room and then makes me walk clear to the other side of their large office around multiple corners to the exam room. They need to see this!
It's honestly impressive that we can "fix" (read slap a bandaid on it and call it good) someones vision even if it gets to a -10.0.
Nothing can replace the moment when you realize real trees are actually more detailed than a watercolor painting of a tree.
For me it was the crisp edges of signage
That was when my parents noticed that I need glasses, I was like the tree in the back looks like a green blob... the moment looking at the tree with my glasses and seeing the leaves, amazing.
yess i remember my first day with glasses back in 3rd grade and when I went outside for the first time with them the first thing out of my mouth was "Oh my gosh the trees are so cool"
I watched a girl on my class cry and comment on this, after she tried on someone else's glasses for fun
So true. For me it was tv. I was floored
You never realize how many branches trees actually have until you put your glasses on for the first time in a while
It's the dirt for me. Take a look at the ground and it's weirdly fascinating with clear vision.
When I got my first pair of glasses I was in awe to realize trees actually had visible leaves on branches instead of green cloud-like shapes. All while I knew what leaves were
When I got my first pair of glasses, on the way home I noticed that I could see every little leaf on trees, instead of just a green cluster blob
@@eventerkeira Eyegasm
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I remember the day ,as an adult, that I was able to see the leaves again. I hadn't thought about that type of definition in so long. I felt unstoppable
I've been wearing glasses for more than 10 years since my childhood and I couldn't remember what i used to see before i wore them. Over the years my eyesight decreased and decreased everytime i went to see a doctor. I was so afraid to what's going to be happening in the future and I stopped going to the doctor.
Over 4 months ago i had a laser surgery and the after view was mind blowing. I never thought that I would ever see without glasses. It was one of the best decisions i ever took
I love how every spectacle wearing person acknowledges that wearing glasses for the first time was such an uplifting experience
Yes! I’ve worn glasses since I was 7 and last year (20 years later) I had a special adjustment for my eye’s rotation or something. When I put on the new glasses I couldn’t believe how detailed everything was! I couldn’t stop staring at my radiator and the dents and detail of the spray silver paint 😆 So wearing glasses the first time and getting a really detailed adjustment will definitely cause happiness
It was beautiful. I've been wearing glasses and now contacts ever since third grade I believe. Everything was very blurry. Even while I was sitting on the scratchy carpet next to the whiteboard, I had to squint to comprehend everything. My teachers caught onto this and told my mom about it, and she brought me to the optometrist. Getting the prescription was scary at first, but once I did, we went to pick out a (pretty cringeworthy in retrospect) pair of glasses. Putting them on was like the difference between night and day. It felt like I could make out the most finite details-from the leaves in the trees to the hair on people's heads. Now, I love going to the optometrist every now and then. I just remember what I felt upon wearing glasses for the first time and I immediately know that new prescription will help my rapidly deteriorating eyesight immensely.
Started wearing glass in elementary school, then in my 30s I had Lasik. Say what you want about getting glasses and seeing clearly, it was even cooler to see the alarm clock the morning after my surgery from my pillow.
Got my first pair in elementary school, growing up poor means infrequently renewing the prescription... everytime was saddening as I realized my dependence. The world's wonders obscured from view, how much more am I missing?
I got home from the eye doctor on a clear night and could see the stars for the first time at 6. I stayed outside stargazing so long my mom came out to check on me
I'm an eye care professional and I can tell you that I fell in love with my job when I saw someone smile after getting their first pair of glasses. They looked at me like I was the first human face they'd ever seen. They were so excited. If I never make another difference in the world, I'm glad I made a difference in that person's life.
That's so sweet. I strive to fulfill my calling like you have.
Made me think of the MrBeast video 😮
I can relate I didn't get glasses till I was a teen andalways squinted but no one questioned it because of my korean ethnicity. And when I got glasses it literally felt like my optometrist was the first human face I saw clearly in my entire life.
What a nice perspective
Ily 🤟🏼
Yup- that's what it's like! I'm -9.5 in both and hate when I go to the eye doctor, and take out my contacts to do the other exam stuff and then they're like, go to the exam room. I friggin can't see and don't know where I'm going!
It's blurry? To me stuff from far far away just loses its depth and detail like polygons in mario 64 idk maybe it's just me and a couple million mors
same, i have a check tomorrow and im so sad and nervous. i hate being blind 😂😂
gaaang when i got my first pair of glasses i was SHOCKED. i remember when i was five i could see in the same clarity, but it was incredible.
My dad lost most of his hearing to a virus, and started getting good results with hearing aids a few years ago. He once told me how nice it was to be able to simply turn them off when he needs to, especially to mitigate sensory issues. This makes me realize I feel the same way about my vision. It can be so comforting to take off the glasses and let the world go soft and fuzzy for a while.
It's just a bit too extreme for me to do that. A cream blob on the floor could be floor, rug, clothes or cat.
Two of those are okay to step on, one is slippery and the last one really reacts badly when you put all your weight on them (sorry Oliver, but you were trying to attach yourself to my foot...)
Ahhh when i take off my glasses and i can't see properly, i just get anxious and annoyed 😂
I take off my glasses when I have to do public speaking. I just assume all the blurry faces are enjoying my speech :D
I have both glasses and hearing aids...i got the hearing aids recently only since i was fine performer in school and college and then started to fail interviews since many HRs decided their throat is some precious jewel. .yet if i remove glasses, with or without hearing aids, i can't hear properly 😂.
Yes. Especially when I become overwhelmed the glasses go and it's like taking a deep breath.
Good reminder that poor vision is a disability that we often forget about! Glasses are a disability aide, and we should use that to be more compassionate to anyone who has an invisible disability.
Idk, as someone who's near sighted, it feels a little insensitive to compare what I deal with to what someone with a disability deals with. The reality is that I can "turn off" my bad vision with glasses, whereas someone with a true disability can't.
@@kk_612 well, not being able to see well is sort of a disability. You need your sight for everything. Also, you can’t fix it. Glasses doesn’t fix it, it temporarily removes the effect of not being able to see. So yes, it’s a physical disability
@Peeta true, I just wished there was a word in the middle to describe something that impacts your life, just not to the severity of other disabilities
@@kk_612 If you lost access to glasses, severe nearsightedness would be debilitating. It’s definitely a disability once you get to a certain point. It only seems like ‘no big deal’ because you have easy access to something that ‘turns off’ the disability. If all places were wheelchair accessible, and wheelchairs were common and affordable, being in a wheelchair wouldn’t seem all that disabling.
@@kk_612 as was said already, having a disability aid doesn’t make something less of a disability. i’m very nearsighted and also have other disabilities, both physical and mental/developmental, and my bad vision is just as much of a disability as the others. it’s just normalized enough to not have as much stigma, and have commonplace treatment options like glasses, vision therapy, surgery, etc!
Okay. More things I’m discovering about my eyesight now. 😂 this man is doing more for the community than I think he knows.
Yes, the last example, -10 was me in both eyes (for about 30 years) before my 2 cataract surgeries. 🤓 Eye Dr. told me it is common for severely nearsighted patients to need surgery 10 years before the “general” population. 👓 Now, I no longer need to wear my glasses for everything I do! I am so thankful, I am on the other side!!! 😊
I have loved being nearsighted. It feels like the world is quieter. But as it gets worse, I can feel a silence coming that I know I am not yet ready for.
I agree, my sister has asked me why I don't want laser eye surgery, it's unfathomable to me. I don't want contacts either. I love taking my glasses off, I always take them off to eat. Nothing bothers me when I take them off. I also have shelled out for the blue light filter and a prescription sunglass as of late.
I am also almost certain I would need to do it again, my eyes are always a little worse at prescription time.
In the mornings, I like walking around without my glasses. I usually don't put them on until I actually have to get ready to go out. The difference between seeing the world when you first wake up - without your glasses - is so different than the world that greets you when you take them off after having worn them all day.
Doubly so when you are an engineer thay stares at computer screens all day.
Moi's comment is underrated and easily misinterpreted. I'm at a -8 already, and I feel myself continuing to worsen, drifting towards that -10 he showed, possibly worse. The world is quieter, and it's closer to me without my glasses on. Sure, it feels nice when you wake up to have less details thrust at you.
But the impending ominous feeling of knowing that it will be less and less detailed is not a comfort, and there is a line crossed, somewhere around -7 for me, where the loss of details becomes irredeemably harmful. Without wearing my glasses, I can't see doorknobs properly, I can't find my glasses when misplaced, what silverware I use is entirely based on muscle memory and feeling it. Once you hit that point, once that line is crossed, no longer is it a comforting world you wake up to. No longer is it one of quiet and peace. It grows more and more silent, more and more difficult, more and more uncaring as your vision worsens.
It is past quiet here. It is growing silent by the day here, and I fear for the days more noiseless than today.
@@jeremiahtablet sending you all the love. Audiobooks are dear friends of mine, I highly recommend them.
That sounds like some serious existential horror...
I sometimes can't help but think about how our bodies are degenerating as we live, slowly inching closer to our death. But when I look in the mirror, thankfully I don't see it yet.
You see that. I would be terrified. I hope that something can be done, like eye surgery. Or that somehow, something can comfort you. Science is ever progressing. What will hit the next milestone first? Your eyes seeing less, or science developing a new intervention? Maybe...
Well, at the very least I hope that you had fun today(I'm writing at night). Maybe with an audio book like Moi recommended.
We live on another level, having to decipher whether that blob is a chair or somebody’s shirt
fuck off pussy I have to cheat on eye exams if I ever want to get my drivers permit.
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this hit home for me at -8.00 that first time having glasses is life changing
The nice thing about being -8.50 and -8.75 is being able to largely remove my vision when I'm overstimulated 🤓
I know the feeling.
I thought I was the only one that did that lol. Cheers, nearsighted brother!
the nice thing about eye surgeries - they exist and improve the quality of life a lot! the only thing I'm sad about - i didn't do it earlier
I do this as well haha. The only downside is accidentally bumping into everything because im so used to the depth perception with glasses on .... small price to pay
@@julia.95 Too expensive for me 🥲.
Hopefully in the future.
As a near sighted person this is one of the better representations
Yep. As soon as -6 hit it was just oof
@@aliciacordero8399 Yet -6 isn't that as bad as it is shown there.
@@anoniukas i don't know the actual numbers of my prescription, i just know that -6 in this video was the first time I've seen anything close to how I see without my glasses represented.
(Mine is worse than that but better than the -10 shown)
@@aliciacordero8399 Mine was -5 few years ago, now it's - 6 and it's not so bad as it is shown in the video. If I had that kind of vision, which is shown as -6 there, I would be affraid to walk around my house without glasses. But, yet, I can ride a bicycle without fear to run into the tree or a car f.e. 😃 Seing big texts and f.e. human faces in 2 + meter distance becomes a problem, of course.
Playing videos at 144p gives a quick similar idea too, imo!
I remember getting diagnosed when I was 4 with hypermetropia, my brother went to the optometrist for a checkup in case he needed glasses, I wanted to do one too cause my brother was doing it and it looked fun. Then the optometrist got scared and told my mom we needed to see an Ophthalmologist asap because I had a pretty severe problem. So she took me to a pediatric ophthalmologist, a female doctor who attended me until I turned 18. I remember that someone having the ability to make me actually see for the first time was really shocking to me, she was like a guardian angel in my 4 yr old head. So I decided at that moment I wanted to be a doctor. I still keep in touch now and then with her, sadly once in med school I never liked ophthalmology, I ended up as an Orthobro 😅.
Every near-sighted kid knows the absolute joy and wonder of seeing the individual leaves on trees for the first time when they get their first pair of glasses. Also, idk if it’s because of my astigmatism or if my “good eye” is just that much better at compensating, but does anyone else not experience a uniform degree of blurring like this video shows?
I remember at 11 years old, what it felt like to put on my first pair of far sighted glasses at night and look up to see individual stars, and have my heart practically skip a beat. To this day it was the most breathtaking think I had ever seen.
SAME WITH ME. I could never see the stars until I wore my first glasses
It took me actually 17 years to see the stars because I never wore glasses outside (I have -5.00 so with the help of friends and family I didn't feel the need to wear glasses in public) and never knew that stars were actually visible with the naked eye, I thought it was made up by movies and books. I also never really had close friends who'd tell me that.
And up to a month ago (I'm almost turning 22) I didn't know planets were also visible... Every night with a clear sky I've been following Jupiter, Mars and Venus and I still can't believe that...
I had the same experience with trees... They just looked smooth to me. Then I got glasses and I could see every individual leaf sticking out, truly mesmerized me.
You are the most breathtaking thing I’ve ever seen
With me it was leaves leaving the office
How individual each one was
Looking at a star twinkling for you my nearsighted friend ✨
Please do one for farsighted! I’m +8 with astigmatism of -3.5 I would love to show those around what it’s like without my glasses! Thank you!
Man I’m +6 and I’m blind, can’t imagine +8!
As a nearsighted person, I cannot understand farsightedness. It seems so wild to me!
Damn, a -3.5 astigmatism is actually wild, never heard of one that high.
-3.5 astigmatism... your eyeball is then an American football eyeball.
@@sosewnknits My son is. +9 and +9.5
I’m near 8, but I wear contacts and glasses so often that I rarely have to deal with it, and kinda forget, so when I’m not wearing them, I can freak out a little, like, has it always been this bad? (no, steady decline) I’m really grateful for the technology that allows me to feel like I’m not as blind as I am.
Thanks for showing this so others can have a little more understanding into what it’s like. And for me to be grateful for what I’ve got!
-7.75 in one eye and -7.50 in the other with astigmatism in both. Thanks for showing people how the world looks to me!
I love taking off my glasses because when I see things as blurry I pretend that I stopped the world.
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I’m totally gonna start doing that
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I'll take my glasses off and say I don't want to see anymore. Half way through anything. 🤣😭 like that's enough seeing for 1 day.
I remember being 5 or 6 and being told, based on my parents' vision, I'd likely be legally blind by age 10. I was terrified to go to the optometrist after that, and never went again until I was driving age. Rx was and remains fairly low, but the being able to see crisp detail 10ft away in the store was the first and best recollection of getting glasses, walking outside and seeing how much further I could still see detail just blew my mind
I remember the first time I got my glasses I looked across the parking lot and said “I can see the rims on that Jeep!”
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Tree leaves freaked me out in a good way as a kid
I remember going outside once I got my glasses and I was astounded that Mormon ppl saw like this every day.
Was hoping you'd keep going. I am at -22 with astigmatism and thin retena - non operational. Thank God science has kept up with correcting my vision loss with gas perm!