People will come to work and say “oh sorry, I can’t read that since I’m not wearing my glasses” and I’m like “why would you go anywhere without glasses if you need glasses?” I just don’t understand it.
actually, they do bring glasses with them all the time, they just straight up refuse to wear them
Keep in mind that depending on the type of eye issue they may not need them all the time. In this example the person only needs then to read and it might actually make their vision worse to wear them when not.
the thing is, even when they need to read something, they just squint their eyes and whine about how they can’t see without glasses then ask others to read it for them instead of idk, PUTTING ON THE DAMN GLASSES that are RIGHT ON THE FUCKING TABLE. Why did you think I said they REFUSE to wear glasses?
It’s because they want YOU to read it for em.
As someone who suffers from migraines, allodynia, and chronic pain, wearing glasses all the time isn’t an option.
Because I forgot them.
I usually don’t need any glasses unless something is more than 1m away from me. They’re uncomfortable laying down so I usually don’t wear them at home
They’re uncomfortable laying down so I usually don’t wear them at home
Is the only thing you do at home is lay in bed? I do plenty of stuff at home that requires me to have my glasses on all day.
I put them on in the morning and take them off before bed.
No, but I don’t really need to wear them inside since most of the time I don’t look at something far away enough to bother wearing glasses, because they get dirty fast and it can be hard to clean them sometimes.
It’s not that bad for me since I only need -0,75dpt and -1,00dpt
Fucking hell, you’re near-sighted and you don’t wear them because they get dirty? Do you walk around naked?
I only have two pairs of glasses.
I have more clothes and I can simply change them when they get dirty.
Also it’s not really a major annoyance when they get a little dirty unlike it’s the case with glasses.
Might come as a shock, but different eyeballs need glasses at different times.
I am “legally blind” but my glasses are pointless inside the house. My vision is just fine for anything that isnt outdoors.
Meanwhile my father cant drive with his glasses, but needs them to read.
During the mandated mask times, I didn’t wear mine because they would fog up while wearing a mask.
ROASTED!
I am comfortably millenial.
I still do this.
Glasses are a pain in the arse, man.
That’s not where glasses go though smh
I love glasses, they add style. Contacts are good but I wouldn’t be a fan of having to do that every morning and night
I won’t disagree – Glasses look nice on my face. But see my other reply.
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You gotta grandma that shit up and get the little grippers that go on the arms of the glasses behind your ears. I’m telling you it’s game changing. They’re basically goggles because they no longer yeet themselves off your face. If only there was a solution to them fogging up with masks. I’ve tried so many things that go in or over masks and they never work. Absolute rage point for me I can’t stand it. I switch to contacts for masks now so I can retain my sanity.
Ah, that was never my problem with glasses.
The problem is that I am a very sweaty, oily person by nature.
The interaction between this and the glasses is that the oils get into those little nose pad thingies and eventually into my eyes, causing immense eye irritation. The only way to avoid it is to take a break every hour to wash face and glasses lest my eyes turn read and teary.
Generally annoying, doubly so given how ADHD I am and my tendency to either hyperfocus and forget about it entirely until I straight up can’t see, or to move off a task only to find myself unable to start it again.
And right now I can afford to only wear my glasses if I’m like. Doing a lot of reading with really tiny text or if I’m driving (which I rarely do because I’m fortunate enough to work from home and live at a place where most services are accessible by foot) – But my eyesight has a tendency to worsen as I age, and I have no idea how I’ll cope once it gets so bad I need them all the time.
Ah yeah I hear that. Just FYI a lot of people with “oily” skin actually have very dry skin that’s producing extra oil to compensate. Happened to me I was told my skin was oily my whole life until a few years ago. Against everything I believed I tried some moisturizer at the suggestion of someone on reddit and it was like getting new skin over the course of a couple weeks. HUGE difference. Same thing for my scalp. Shampoo etc for oily hair wasn’t working because my scalp wasn’t oily. It was making it more dry and making the oil problem worse lmao. Just throwing that out there because it was a real game changer for me. Nowadays it’s super rare for me to get that terrible burning in my eyeballs from my stupid face oil.
I do recommend anyone reading this to get face moisturizer specifically. Especially if you don’t like the feel of lotion because it’s usually a lot less greasy and rubs in better. Get some cheap stuff and give it a shot you never know.
Edit to also mention that I stopped suffering from pretty bad face face acne, which I’d suffered from for decades, with this change too.
Well I’ll be thrice-damned.
Worth a try I guess.
This also with fucking hearing aids. Like yeah it sucks, but wear them - they help. I’m sick of yelling at people with clear hearing issues who are not wearing anything to help.
I hear fine, I just have an issue understanding human speech. It just sounds like noise sometimes.
As a person with a hearing impairment, I can unfortunately confirm that they’re not all simply solved with hearing aids. OP has big “this liar walked from the handicap spot” energy.
As someone with ADHD, I find that if I’m focused on something and someone tries to get my attention, I’ll often need to ask them to repeat themselves. Not because I didn’t hear them, but I couldn’t comprehend them. It’s not about the sound entering my ears, it’s about my brain not being ‘ready’ to take in information from a different source so suddenly.
Same here. For me it’s like when I can recognize other languages based off the sound or the way the written language looks. Like I know your speaking English but have no idea what was said especially with directions sometimes
Whoa, I’ve been having this exact problem for years and it’s been troubling me, especially in my new job. I keep needing to ask people to repeat themselves unless I’m facing them, focused on them, and within a short distance of them. We also use earpieces at work and I’m sometimes struggling to hear what I’m being told through them. It can cause embarrassment.
I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD nor do I have any diagnosed hearing problems. I’ve always wondered if its just related to my shy personality or if I have poor active listening skills, but your comment made me think that I should speak to someone about it.
So, fun fact: the human brain cannot multitask. Some are good at switching tasks quickly, their minds well adjusted for doing so. Others, like you and I, have trouble switching tasks quickly. It’s not something you can train or get better at, it’s just a quirk of how your brain developed. There’s no shame in it, either. But now that you’re aware of what the issue is, you can take steps to work around it.
Talking to a mental health professional is a good step, but be wary of getting put on any drugs. Sometimes the best thing you can do is be aware of any issues and work around them. That being said, for me, a stimulant is the perfect solution to some of my ADHD related issues, others are deeply ingrained behaviors that need to be trained out.
No drug is suddenly going to solve all your problems. They can help with aspects, but be wary of side effects. Not just physical ones, either.
Oh that’s totally normal. Or like when you say “pardon?” but by the time you’re finished asking, the sound has rattled around in your ears long enough for your brain to have made sense of it, then you’re like “sorry, nevermind, it’s on the top shelf” while they’re in the middle of clarifying.
The reasons I’ve heard (hah) are:
- They cost a lot
- People are biased against people who they see wearing hearing aids
- It makes you feel old and face aging
Some people like tuning out everything around them
Others can have a distinct problem picking voices out of surrounding noise.
People with such a bad vision they just can’t afford to not wear them while awake : wat?
Exactly! I couldn’t imagine even getting out of my room after I wake up without putting my glasses on
I can imagine that but my functionality will be questionable at best and the most advanced task I can do is probably make a sandwich and itll take me 5 minutes to find the mayonnaise if its been moved from the usual spot.
I can’t hear you, it’s too dark.
This isn’t just a boomer thing. I know damn well half my schoolmates in the 90s preferred to walk around blind as fuck than be “uncool” and wear glasses. I’d see them sneak them out of their cases to read something on the chalkboard real quick and then tuck them away.
One of my grandfathers refused to wear a seatbelt and got really pissy any time someone put their foot down and wouldn’t move the car if he took it off.
Boy do I have an absolute awful show for you!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_I_Like_Forgot_Her_Glasses
Joke’s on you, I’ve read the manga and I love it. The story is cute but in my case people straight up refusing to wear glasses simply because they don’t want to is damn annoying.
Okay maybe I need to be more specific…”awful” as in in cringe …regarding the MC
At least in the anime he is one of the worst I’ve seen in a long time. I finished it to the end though
I find it even more annoying when they refuse to use their hearing aids. It’s not my problem if they can’t read the newspaper, but repeating every sentence because they need two attempts to understand it… aAaAAAaahh!
Not sure what this has to do with boomers. I’ve heard people of all ages grumble about having to wear glasses.
Xer and glasses never bothered me that much but I did dream of not needing them. Waking up and being able to see clearly when I open my eyes. Well anyway I got nearsided as well and ugh do I ever hate progressive lenses and I still end up taking off my glasses for looking at things close.
Fellow Xer here. My optometrist fitted me for my first pair of glasses for reading and said “welcome to your 40s”. I keep a cheap pair in every room and the nice prescription ones in my home/work offices.
Me, not Boomer, reading this without my glasses right now…
Cue shifty eye fox thing meme
I’m on the boomers side I hate wearing glasses
cringe
Whew, a surprising amount of aggression on this topic
I’d probably be like this, but wearing glasses is better than not being able to see six inches in front of you. My nearsightedness is bad.
Unless 12 year olds are boomers as well then your title isn’t very good.
Boomers act like preteens…
Not all of them.
While you are right, I have met way too many old folks that have the maturity of preteens. Like, I expect preteens to be childish and immature, I don’t expect a man in his 60s to be like them.
You don’t understand that older people might only need glasses for reading?
