#optometry

[provided-insanity]

I like to think he has dozens of ailments as a victorian child would, I don't know if we've decided hes red/green colourblind or fully colourblind.

He's so literal baby girl and I wanna put him in a fight ring.

Anyways I'm not the best at comic formatting, but I guess I better git gud.

[bean-enthusiast-29]

People with glasses, how old were you when you first got them?

younger than 4 (how?)

5-7

8-10

11-12

As a teen

Early 20s

Late 20s

30s

40s

I got glasses unrelated to aging eyes older than 50

No corrective lenses for me (lucky)

Voting ended onJan 9, 2025

I didn't really know how to divide the categories but I tried my best.

Please recognize for larger sample size!!

[nemfrog]

An eye superimposed with a degree scale. The text criticizes its use, saying it leads to eyeglasses with poor lens alignment.

Hand-book for opticians. 1892.

Internet Archive

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Though Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing multiple focus glasses, they were originally proposed by the ancient Greek optometrist Bifocles.

[gaystation4]

[witchrealms]

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[travelbasscase]

just learned not everyone sees the Dots????????????

yknow the dots that make up your vision! the ones that are most visible when looking at a light solid-colored surface and/or in low lighting conditions but are always there and always moving?

i thought i could see atoms as a kid because of the dots

both my sisters see the dots also! but my mom can't? i thought everyone saw the dots!!!!!!!!!! what is this??????

not like visual snow it's nto that obtrusive or big. like really really really tiny tv static or like the pixels on a computer

[gamingtimewarppumpkin-blog]

going to the eye doctor at pompeii:

me: yeah I can read all those letters just fine

optometrist: but if you close your eyes