Glasses, as soon as I could make sentences, which was when I was about 3 years old. Certainly some time before by 4th birthday. I have an extreme case of astigmatism, which makes it hard to make contacts to correct that part of my vision. Astigmatism is selective focus from ripples in the cornea. The effect is like looking through Venetian blinds. The ripples make my vision vertically challenged. I lose horizontal lines. So a capital H looks like II to me. I lose the connecting bar. Exactly like looking through horizontal blinds where the horizontal lines are being "blocked" by the slats in the blinds. When you are having your eyes examined and they put up a set of vertical and horizontal lines and ask if either set looks darker, THAT is testing for the ripples. The lens you are looking through has a cylindrical component which is rotated. When the cylindrical component matches the component in your eye, it cancels out and you see both sets of lines as equally dark. And THAT is why I can't wear contacts, the lens has two properties, a spherical property to correct for being nearsighted and a cylindrical property which gives the lens a specific orientation. Hard contacts CAN be "weighted" so they have a "heavy side" so they will tend to orient with the heavy side down, but the problem is the lens "floats" and loses its proper orientation every time you blink. Soft lenses can't have a heavy side because of how they are made. So, since my eyes require a rather large cylindrical component, I can only wear ordinary eyeglasses. I just turned 63 this year, which means 60 years of wearing glasses... By the way, the astigmatism is also why laser surgery will not mean I can get away from eyeglasses. Laser modification of the lens does not do well with the cylindrical component I need. My nearsightedness will be fixed, but I will STILL need reading glasses so I can see the horizontal parts of the letters on the page. I DO remember time before I wore glasses, barely. My earliest memories are from somewhere about when I was 20 to 24 months old and I did not start with glasses until I was past 3 but before I was 4 years old.
I'd say the average age people start to use contacts or glasses is at ages 12+. I first started using glasses when I was 13. I prefer wearing glasses over contacts because it is pretty hard to constantly wash the little lenses and often times it can cut your eye.One of my friends had to stop wearing her contacts because of that.... ouch!
But if you still want to look cool without glasses then go for it!
=D To sum it all up I wear glasses and on rare occasions wear contacts.
Started wearing glasses around 8 years old, got my first pair of contacts around 16 years old. During the week (college classes) I wear glasses and weekend I wear contacts.
The only from of glasses I ware are polarized sunglasses. I have photo sensitive eyes and I'll start to sneeze if exposed to too much glare or brightness. I have five pair of different shads of darkness. I even have to ware a selected pair on bright cloudy days. The neatest pair I have I ware during a daytime rain storm. They cut out the haze of the spray of water from rain and cars when driving during the rain. Some suggest I'm just trying to be cool. Not so. I do have a real reason to keep lots of types with me.
I wear glasses and I started to wear them in 1st grade. I would use contacts but my friend wears glasses and when she tried to use contacts she hated them.
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Glasses, as soon as I could make sentences, which was when I was about 3 years old. Certainly some time before by 4th birthday. I have an extreme case of astigmatism, which makes it hard to make contacts to correct that part of my vision. Astigmatism is selective focus from ripples in the cornea. The effect is like looking through Venetian blinds. The ripples make my vision vertically challenged. I lose horizontal lines. So a capital H looks like II to me. I lose the connecting bar. Exactly like looking through horizontal blinds where the horizontal lines are being "blocked" by the slats in the blinds. When you are having your eyes examined and they put up a set of vertical and horizontal lines and ask if either set looks darker, THAT is testing for the ripples. The lens you are looking through has a cylindrical component which is rotated. When the cylindrical component matches the component in your eye, it cancels out and you see both sets of lines as equally dark. And THAT is why I can't wear contacts, the lens has two properties, a spherical property to correct for being nearsighted and a cylindrical property which gives the lens a specific orientation. Hard contacts CAN be "weighted" so they have a "heavy side" so they will tend to orient with the heavy side down, but the problem is the lens "floats" and loses its proper orientation every time you blink. Soft lenses can't have a heavy side because of how they are made. So, since my eyes require a rather large cylindrical component, I can only wear ordinary eyeglasses. I just turned 63 this year, which means 60 years of wearing glasses... By the way, the astigmatism is also why laser surgery will not mean I can get away from eyeglasses. Laser modification of the lens does not do well with the cylindrical component I need. My nearsightedness will be fixed, but I will STILL need reading glasses so I can see the horizontal parts of the letters on the page. I DO remember time before I wore glasses, barely. My earliest memories are from somewhere about when I was 20 to 24 months old and I did not start with glasses until I was past 3 but before I was 4 years old.
I'd say the average age people start to use contacts or glasses is at ages 12+. I first started using glasses when I was 13. I prefer wearing glasses over contacts because it is pretty hard to constantly wash the little lenses and often times it can cut your eye.One of my friends had to stop wearing her contacts because of that.... ouch!
But if you still want to look cool without glasses then go for it!
=D To sum it all up I wear glasses and on rare occasions wear contacts.
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BQ: 13
Started wearing glasses around 8 years old, got my first pair of contacts around 16 years old. During the week (college classes) I wear glasses and weekend I wear contacts.
The only from of glasses I ware are polarized sunglasses. I have photo sensitive eyes and I'll start to sneeze if exposed to too much glare or brightness. I have five pair of different shads of darkness. I even have to ware a selected pair on bright cloudy days. The neatest pair I have I ware during a daytime rain storm. They cut out the haze of the spray of water from rain and cars when driving during the rain. Some suggest I'm just trying to be cool. Not so. I do have a real reason to keep lots of types with me.
Glasses. Age 17. I'm currently 17.
I wear glasses and I started to wear them in 1st grade. I would use contacts but my friend wears glasses and when she tried to use contacts she hated them.
I use contacts. I only wear glasses when I first wake up or if I have an eye infection.
Contacts, now.
BQ: I wore glasses for four years before I got contacts last December, age 14.