I am curious...

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.

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...