Glasses.

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Why do a lot of people on the spectrum wear glasses?

(I don't wear glasses though)

i am far sited, i where these (only mine are black) except when i am driving.

I'm quite nearsighted. I got my first pair of glasses when I was 13, but didn't start wearing them full time until I was 19.

I got glasses, far sighted and a bit of short sighted. Let's just say if I took my glasses off the world would look really fuzzy and I can't see text at all.

I'm very nearsighted with some astigmatism. Been wearing glasses since 1st grade. I tried contacts in high school and college, but I had the rigid kind, so they hurt. Plus, I never liked the sensation of putting something on my eye, so I went back to glasses.

Speaking of which, does anybody freak out at the "puff" test for glaucoma? That's when they shine a blue light very close to your eye and blow a puff of air to measure your eyeball pressure. The first time I experienced this, it took half a dozen tries before I calmed down.

I had "lazy eye".. I had an operation that equalized the tension in the eye muscles and enabled me to fuse images with no trouble. A few years ago my wife and I had cataracts removed from our eyes and artificial lenses implanted. Now I have 20-20 vision for distance viewing (no glasses required any more) and I wear 2.00 magnifiers for close reading.

ruveyn

I am short sighted. Have been since teens and got glasses at 17. Myopic (short sighted), though peripheral vision has better focus than central vision. Wear octagonal glasses that cover central vision but leave peripheral unadjusted, and I find this best and that my myopia is slowly receding.

I am near-sighted and have worn glasses since high school. I like wearing glasses.

I'm very near sighted,I get it from my Mom. I've been wearing glasses ever since I was 9 on upwards.I love my glasses.After awhile if I don't have them in.My eyes start getting burly and I can't see well.

I was very near sighted as a child and was given a pair of glasses to wear during the summer between 2nd and 3rd grade. The optometrist thought he was being cute when he gave me a toy gun holster to carry the glasses in. I was in summer school that summer for some reason and the other kids gave me a rough time about that holster telling me with great cynicism that I could not bring such things to school. From that point on I refused to wear those glasses at all. My sister got glasses at the same time and soon could not see without them while I did OK for many years, although having to do a lot of squinting along the way. Finally around age 37 my eyesight changed the other way and I could no longer see up close (old age syndrome). I began wearing drug store reading glasses and have needed them increasingly since that time (I am now age 60). Soon I need to get a more powerful pair.

Very short sighted and wore glasses since I was 11 but really needed them before that. Now crossing over to needing reading glasses as well, it's an age thing apparently after 40 ish your eyes change. I wear contacts as well.

I've been wearing glasses for...5 years maybe? I've tried contacts but they make me dizzy and they just fall off my eyes I got some prescription sunglasses last year and it was a terrific decision, I wear them all the time