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I'm half as nearsighted as I used to be

  1. 2025-01-28 at 12:53 PM UTC
    #1
    Tab Numlock Houston
    I was pretty nearsighted:

    -3.50
    -3.75

    Years ago, I got computer glasses that were +1.50, single focus. So:

    -2.00
    -2.25

    My regular bifocals got so scratched up, I started wearing my computer glasses full time. Over the weeks, I kept seeing better and better and after a year, I can see perfectly. License plates and street signs are no problem. I sometimes forget I'm not wearing glasses. Trying my old glasses on makes me laugh.

    I can now use the computer (27" monitor) without glasses if I get a bit close. I've always been able to read and see my phone without glasses but had to lift things a bit out of my lap. Now I don't, nice.

    And the lenses are half as thick.

    I also realized bifocals are kinda dumb. Now, the whole room is in focus. And single focus lenses are dirt cheap.

    So it turns out my eyeballs were pretty adjustable. And I'm past retirement age. I highly recommend optometrists always give people one step down, 0.25, until their eyes stabilize.
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  2. 2025-01-28 at 1:08 PM UTC
    #2
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Can you tell me my numbers?
  3. 2025-01-28 at 1:09 PM UTC
    #3
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Iam near sights
  4. 2025-01-28 at 1:19 PM UTC
    #4
    Semiazas African Astronaut


  5. 2025-01-28 at 1:27 PM UTC
    #5
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Semi emi do you want to compare our glasses to see if we have same prescription?
  6. 2025-01-28 at 1:41 PM UTC
    #6
    Semiazas African Astronaut
    I don't know mine. I think they're Hella thick/20
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  7. 2025-01-28 at 1:44 PM UTC
    #7
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    I want a new prescription or new eyes
  8. 2025-01-28 at 1:47 PM UTC
    #8
    Semiazas African Astronaut
    This guy seems legit

  9. 2025-01-28 at 1:47 PM UTC
    #9
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Semi emi what you eatin today
  10. 2025-01-28 at 1:55 PM UTC
    #10
    Tab Numlock Houston
    Originally posted by Crispy Can you tell me my numbers?

    You can try having an optometrist read them but they often won't because they suspect you'll go to Zenni and get new glasses for $10. They are right.
  11. 2025-01-28 at 1:56 PM UTC
    #11
    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Originally posted by Tab Numlock You can try having an optometrist read them but they often won't because they suspect you'll go to Zenni and get new glasses for $10. They are right.
    Optometrist wont tell me, tells my grandmother and my grandmother doesnt tell me shit. Getting them read now costs $25 and my grandmother refuses to pay for that shit lol
  12. 2025-01-28 at 2:06 PM UTC
    #12
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    When I was 19 I needed glasses, if I held out my hand it would be blurry. Now I can read things at the opposite side of a room. Idk if it was hypnosis with the bates method that helped me see again or a split personality, apparently that can happen. I haven't worn glasses since.

    This is the improve eyesight one I listened to:

    https://voca.ro/1je9i20mBRJE

    And this is the supercharge eyesight one I haven't listened to yet. I think it was experimental.

    https://voca.ro/1bClatETipGc
  13. 2025-01-28 at 2:08 PM UTC
    #13
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    I think the second one is just to make things more vivid, not correct vision issues.
  14. 2025-01-28 at 3:05 PM UTC
    #14
    Tab Numlock Houston
    I would never consider lasik because my eyes are too sensitive. It wouldn't make any diff anyway, now. Instead of wearing glasses to drive, I'd have to wear them to read.

    Lucky I have zero cataracts despite being fucking old. Always wore sunglasses.

    Here's how good my eyesight is. I had to call to switch my phone sim and could perfectly read those tiny numbers.
  15. 2025-01-28 at 3:15 PM UTC
    #15
    Instigator Naturally Camouflaged [the staring tame crusher]
    I see what you did there 👀
  16. 2025-01-28 at 3:53 PM UTC
    #16
    Tab Numlock Houston
    BTW, myopia is not a defect, it's a trait. It allows people to read and do hand work into middle age. It's linked with high IQ.

    If you eliminated the trait, society might be in big trouble if reading glasses were ever not available.
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