I am curious...

🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵

I am curious...

I know I have a lot of followers who are blind, but I'd like to see how many of you are out there that this post will reach!

Including some additional demographics for interest's sake.

Please respond and boost if you don't mind!

Xoa Gray

@Bwee I'm kind of between "I wear glasses and I can see just fine" and “I wear glasses, but my eyesight still isn't great. I have a few different things going on that aren't all 100% correctable with lenses.

Rosy

@Bwee I said "I wear glasses and can see just fine" because there's no blurriness but I did develop floaters recently which is annoying me. I also have astigmatism but I was born with that and didn't even realize it was abnormal for a long time so that doesn't bother me.

Blau ☃️

@Bwee i wear glasses all the time (or at least, i should, but they're uncomfortable at the computer so i don't) - they help the focus issues but i have visual snow that impacts my ability to read text and glasses unfortunately can't help with that

aura-v2a-heretic

@xoagray @Bwee missing this option too. i have a bunch of dead spots on my retinas and floaters and I do notice, but mostly it's fine.

DeeAnn Little

@Bwee I answered the third choice as I wear glasses most of the time, but I have loss of peripheral and center vision that glasses can't fix, and even with correction things are more "flattened" as far as 3-D vision goes. Glasses do help with the general blurriness though, I have multiple pairs for different things.

? Offline

@Bwee I don't wear glasses but I probably should

Nicks World

@Bwee Out of curiosity. Why do you want to know the percentage of blind followers oyu have? i'm just a curious person.

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

@Bwee

I don’t wear glasses. Since I was a kid one eye focuses better at distance and one close up. I normally only see out of one eye at a time. I switch between eyes unconsciously — though I can also do it on purpose.

Strangely no problem perceiving objects in motion in 3d. I used to be very good at both throwing and catching while playing Ultimate Frisbee before knee issues.

Fine on highways or reading a book. Now I think glasses to read text on large monitors would help.

Élana

@Bwee@meow.social we're not blind, but we're supposed to wear glasses (we're probably slightly short-sighted, but in such a way that it would cause too much strain to have the same correction to see close and far, so we have progressive lenses. also we see double as soon as our eyes are slightly tired, so the bottom part of the glasses are supposed to help reduce eye fatigue)

in practice our computer screen is constantly at eye level since we rarely use laptops (and if we do, it's typically at work where we have a second screen) so we mostly wear them when we buy groceries or if we bike

Rick Alfaro

@TheQuinbox @Bwee I am totally blind.

rau

@Bwee *steps up and leans lightly on your fluffy post, which is very considerately placed so as not to be a tripping hazard ^v^* oh hi um oops yes we're blind. the human was born with failing vision which... well... failed. so we understand a lot of visual ideas and references, but don't actually do the seeing anymore

ENG. Tretron 🐲

@Bwee i am between "i wear glasses and i can see fine" and "I wear glasses and they help a bit"

I can see fine but without glasses or long expusure to harsh lights give me migraine attacks.

Doggie BSc :neofox_snug: :therian:

@Bwee glasses make it good enough that it doesn't stop me from doing most things but they can't fully correct it (also annoying things like how if I tilt my head I can't see sharp anymore because the rotation of my eyeballs must be perfectly aligned with the lenses for me to see sharp)

I mostly have strong astigmatism and this also makes dark themes very straining to read on a good day (or unreadable if I already have eye strain).

Sarah Sammis

@Bwee I'm getting the point that glasses just aren't getting my sight back to where it was or where I would like it to be. Not blind just very very blurry.

Sarah Sammis

@xoagray @Bwee Same here.

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.