I am curious...

Sarah Sammis

Irrlicht

@Bwee@meow.social
I'm a bit in between. I do wear glasses and my vision is technically "ok". I don't see blurry and it's not required that I use a screen reader. But I wouldn't describe my vision as "just fine" so I answered according to that. Hope that's ok

Xoa Gray

@pussreboots @Bwee There’s a lot of us I think. We fall in the cracks between “I can see” and “I can’t see”. It’s almost like a silent disability. Like I can see, but still use text to speech for longer things to avoid eye strain because I don’t have normal eyes.

Bard :genderqueer_flag: :rat_pan:

@Bwee@meow.social I wore glasses for mild shortsightedness from the age of around 15 or 16. But after university I got a job at a laser eye surgery clinic and ended up getting LASIK for free, so since then I have been without glasses.

xolatgames

@Bwee I see badly, but I still don't wear glasses.

Indekantlijn

@lalah @Bwee I did the same. I have floaters and astigmatism. My glasses cannot fully correct my vision because of the difference between my eyes.

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@Bwee@meow.social other: I'm developing some vision problems and will need glasses soon, but don't yet have or wear them

Chris Siebenmann

@Bwee I need glasses, but only a mild prescription. Once upon a time I could wear one pair for all situations and I wore glasses all the time. Now I need one pair for normal circumstances and another pair for computer/reading use, and it's a pain to swap between them, so a lot of the time I wander around away from the computer without any glasses on at all. Mostly the non-computer glasses get worn when I go outside, or at least significantly away.

John-Mark Gurney

@Bwee
Due to RA related inflammation (and becoming old), I have occasional vision issues that could be addressed by glasses, but they aren't frequency/sever/long enough to require me to use glasses/readers.

refraction :verified_transgender:

@Bwee we can see okay at short distance, but not so well at distance and especially lights at night cause of astigmatism, so we wear glasses now

refraction :verified_transgender:

@Bwee we might not be able to read something well or at all across the room and watching TV is hard, but computer close up is fine. with glasses we see pretty well still.

refraction :verified_transgender:

@Bwee though the glasses not perfectly correct the astigmatism

ScriptFanix💍⏚ ⸫

@Bwee
I need glasses but have yet to make an appointment... And I'm colourblind (protanomaly)

Canageek

@Bwee I put down see just fine, because I tested 20/20 but I don't seem to be able to read road signs and such as well as other people for some reason...

Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦

@Bwee My caveat is I wear two different pairs of glasses depending on context and can see just fine if I have the correct pair glasses for the context.

@jeffhorton

Owen Beresford

@Bwee right eye 20/20 vision.
left eye after 2020, smol shadows fumbling in the darkness
left eye (dominant) before 2020, 20/20 (ie focussing) but not very well lined up with right.
#leSigh

Econproph

@Bwee
I have keratoconus - progressive deformation of corneas. I characterize myself as "part-time blind" .
There are very sophisticated contact lenses that can get me to a decent (can drive but not at night) vision, but they are very uncomfortable. My lenses can only be worn an unpredictable ~8hrs/day, although it used to be 12 when younger.
Without my lenses, I can't see edges, I see too much light. Def "blind" w/o the lenses.

gemelen

@Bwee
If I understand correctly, in English term my vision falls into the legally blind, but I had to search its equivalent in "eye chart" (that also usually returns the "20/200" which by itself is in "freedom" units :] )

ekari

@Bwee Only reading glasses at the moment, but due to genetic lottery there might be some severe deterioration ahead.

My plan is to not care about it yet

Luna the Deer

@Bwee@meow.social I have a cataract in one eye and my other eye is (as of right now) 20/20 vision