I was about 35. I started driving late, and I went to take the eye exam at MVA. I was told to read the letters. I told the person that they needed to adjust the screen that displayed the letters before I could read them. He nonchalantly looked at me without blinking, and asked when was the last time I got my eyes checked. I insisted that I had 20/20 vision. I was wrong and needed distance glasses. When I put them on I never realized what I was missing. I could see clearly!!!
2007-10-11 14:39:01 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
That is so funny. That's exactly how I learned I needed glasses. I moved to Texas and went to get my new license only I had the poor woman adjust the machine three times. The letters looked like Chinese characters. Same problem, distance. I couldn't believe what a difference those glasses made. I was 34.
2007-10-11 17:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by curious connie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I realized it? age 5 or so. When I got them? Age 10. I was already at -4.00! The doctor asked my mom how I managed to get this far with no one noticing. Then she felt bad for ignoring my pleas all those years (I'm the last of 4 kids, none of them wear glasses, so my mom never imagined that my eye site could possibly be that bad). By age 23 I was at -10.00, had lasik surgery, and now I still wear glasses but it is only -.75. A vast improvement.
For those who don't know, -4.00 is 20/400 and then I was -10.00 which is 20/1000! I had to call my husband home from work once because my cats knocked my glasses off the nightstand when I was taking a nap one day, and I couldn't find them. The only reason I could call him was because I could hold my cell phone right up to my face to see the screen. Being blind sucks!
2007-10-11 14:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by Dolyn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
about 10
2007-10-11 17:17:50 · answer #3 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I realized something was very wrong in an eye test given at my school when I was a mere 12 years old. All the kids were laughing and I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why. They called my Mom in to discuss the fact that I needed a professional eye exam. I was subsequently found to be 20x40 and needed glasses. Been wearing them ever since.
And, YES, in case you're wondering, life improved immensely for me after that. No telling what I WASN'T SEEING that made my experience of the world "blurred" until then. I only know I wore those glasses and still am.
That damned old wives tale, "Men don't make passes as girls who wear glasses" is a bunch of crap. My hubby loved me just the way I was. Oddly, in a few years he would need glasses himself and been in them almost as long a I have been.
2007-10-11 14:47:18 · answer #4 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I went longer than most, I didn't need glasses until I was 55. And now I wear blended lenses with bifocals on the bottom, computer prescription in the middle and plain glass on the top.I still don't need them for driving and have an unrestricted license.
Didn't realize I needed them until I had to have an eye exam because my eyes wouldn't quit watering when I was outside and driving. Eye strain! I thought the Dr. was going to tell me that I had an allergy. Go figure!
2007-10-11 18:05:10 · answer #5 · answered by Cranky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was ten when I realized I needed it. I had to sit WAY in the front of my fifth grade classroom to read whatever was projected on the board by the overhead projector.
Just this year, it was found that the glasses I'd had since the summer before the sixth grade weren't giving me 20/20 vision anymore. So I got new ones...now the world around me looks so much clearer! :D
2007-10-11 15:00:57 · answer #6 · answered by Din-din 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was about 45. My husband would stick something in front of me and ask me to look at it, and I would have to push it further away before I could read it. But I refused to get my eyes checked until it got to the point where when I got the print far enough away to read, the print was too small to see. So DH made me an eye exam appointment and made me go.
And I still hate my glasses.
2007-10-11 16:58:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sara 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was in seventh grade, I was looking at the overhead and my teacher gave us, my classmates a lecture. I was trying to look closer the project and never realize I was actually very closely! My teacher told me that I need to take a eye exam and I was panicked because I didn't want to wear it and I didn't want to look like weirdo. Turned out I did need new glasses so I went. Now I am 17 and sometimes wear my glasses and contract lenses. I realized I shouldn't ashamed of wearing the glasses...they are very important to wear... ^^ If without them, I'd go blind!
2007-10-11 14:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by loveme 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was 39. Things on the computer were blurred. I got reading glasses. I always had excellent vision and could read signs from half a mile away. Now I'm 60 and wear tri focals. Everything is blurred without them.
2007-10-11 15:49:44 · answer #9 · answered by Granny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was about 30 and at a one man comedy show of David Steinberg at the local college He's is now known for a TV LAND show called SIT DOWN COMEDY. It was at that show that I realized that my latest career, bookkeeping, had ruined my far vision. I could not see him from my seat in the balcony. I've been near sighted ever since. I wore glasses for a while. Switched to contacts, (but they screw up your close vision), then tried bifocal contacts. They are a compromise because your close vision is still impaired. Now I'm back to glasses for driving.
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2007-10-11 15:15:45 · answer #10 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋