Not Everybody Will Approve Of This
Posted July 18th, 2011 at 3:53AM
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Wearing glasses looks sexy.
For example, my avatar.
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Sammi -
This is really thrilling.... I feel the same feeling too, and love the look of strong glasses. How many diopters have you got? if that is your pic you should be really close to -10........
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In this country they use a different measurement. 85 left and 55 right.
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Sammi -
10 diopters is the power of the needed lenses, should be the same in every country. Visual acuity could be measured in different scale.
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If this is what you wanted to do, why would someone not approve of this. How you live your life should not cause you to be judged by athers. I know a few other people who have done the same thing. One girl is now looing at life through -20D lenses, and says she would not change it for the world.
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I cannot imagine anybody who would like to be very nearsighted. They all get contact lenses because they don't want to be seen in glasses. My friends, my brother and sister, my parents, they would all call me crazy if they knew what I have done. But I just love this life "behind glasses". -
Caytlyn, you are not crazy - we are all individuals and we all like things just because we like them. I totally get what you mean about loving life behind glasses. I started wearing glasses about 20 years ago but I wasn't really that nearsighted. I could have probably gotten away with not ever getting them, but I was on a mission! I really wanted to wear and NEED glasses so I dutifully got the glasses and then got this burst of shyness about them. I wore them for driving and whenever someone else who wore glasses that I thought were "cool" were wearing them around me.
Let's flash forward to 2011. I was wearing glasses 100% of the time. I loved them. I don't know if it was the slipping down my nose (love it when they slip) or just the feel of them on my face. I always felt like I was a fraud though. Even 20 years later my prescription was only a -1.75 (and that was stretching it). I wanted some serious coke-bottles but how would I be able to wear them and see? How could I explain coming in to a room now with these 1/2 inch thick glasses?
I did some online research - you gotta love the Internet - and found people that did "GOC" (glasses over contacts). This means that people actually wear contact lenses to make their eyesight worse so that they can then wear thicker glasses to correct their vision. How sick is this?!?!?! Or is it?
I have now been GOC for almost exactly 1 year. The explanation for the sudden need for coke-bottle glasses (my lenses are almost 1/2 inch thick) is that I had an issue with "convergence" - in layman's terms "double-vision". The way that this is corrected is by having lenses that have prisms in them. The prisms make the lenses really thick at the edges. I don't REALLY have prisms in my lenses, but they are pretty thick and people have actually said that they can "see the prisms in my lenses" after I gave them this bull story.
So here I am - even more of a rebel than you are. My point is that you need to do what makes you feel good. I totally get how you feel but you know that most people probably don't. WHO CARES?!?! If it makes you happy - go for it!!! -
That's an interesting idea to wear contacts to make your eyesight worse. Do you order them online? How do you know what prescription your glasses have to be then? Or do you not mind if the glasses are too strong or too weak then? What prescription are your glasses now?
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Yes, you order the contacts on line. Basically you sort of estimate what you need to offset your desired minus rx at with plus contact lenses. In my case, I use +7 contacts with -9 glasses. My real rx is somewhere between -1.75 and -2. You simply just make up the difference with the contacts. The best part about this is, I can see great. I will also say that I have never felt better about my appearance in my entire life than I do right now. I just wish that I had learned about it sooner. I also have to say that I "befriended" someone online that has encouraged me to do it. I felt like I was doing something bad or shameful. He told me one thing that makes me sure that this is the right thing - "You aren't hurting anyone by doing this right?? Then why not do something that you like to do?" I agree with everything that you have said and I hope that you read this and proudly push those thick spex of yours up your nose!1 more reply
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i don't understand why you disabled yourself to wear glasses... lulz, did you not realize you don't need actual presc
ription lenses to wear them? i'm not going to judge your fascination with wearing glasses at all because they can be a fashion statement for some. but i do feel from reading your story and others that you seem like one who is *trans-abled* - that is, a person who deliberately disables themselves unnecessarily. it's kind of a mental illness.
that said, i am one who waz forced to wear glasses for inherited familial near-sightedness from the age of 10 and dang you must have gone to private school or something amazing like that because i waz mercilessly teased and hated from there on out at school for being ugly wearing glasses. hehe, i'm over all that now and i actually love my glasses these days. i bought some beautiful designer black gothic frames from Vera Wang and i just love them. i am, however, concerned and sad to read that people are harming themselves to achieve a look. it's really unnecessary when non-presc ription glasses are just the same. glad you love your glasses though.... very strange story, and somewhat disturbing. thanks for sharing. -
I did realize I could have worn non-prescription glasses but that was not what I wanted. I didn’t do it to achieve a look. Have you ever looked through glasses that are too strong for you? I realized that I could wear minus glasses though I didn’t need them. I just loved the vision and was fascinated with the feeling that minus lenses gave me. When my eyes got worse that feeling seemed to disappear. So I needed stronger glasses to get the feeling back. I admit that I loved becoming near-sighted and really needing glasses. I was proud of my glasses. I did not go to private school and I was never teased. My friends simply accepted that I needed glasses and that they became stronger and stronger. Please don’t call me transabled. Would you call glasses wearers disabled? Half the world wear glasses. Why shouldn’t I? Yes, I did disable myself unnecessarily but as long as I wear them I can see fine with my glasses. I don’t hurt anybody else. I don’t even believe that I hurt myself because my glasses make up for my myopia. You say you love your glasses these days. I love mine. Where’s the difference?
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Hi Caytlyn,
I have read your story and it resembles my own story a lot. I wouldn't have expected to find somebody with a story similar to mine. Could you please contact me?
Regards, Ilona
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