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I was wondering if anyone else has vision impairment or an eyesight problem of some kind.
Please do not post graphic (real) images of eyes unless they're in a spoiler with a small description of what it is, as I am incredibly eye squeamish. So eye squeamish it's probably honestly a phobia.
I'll have y'all know I only cried at the optometrist 4 times.
- Once in the waiting room
- Once at the first machine where they focus an image of a house
- Once when the nurse asked me questions about medical history (?????, I know, what the fvck)
- Aaaaaaand every time the doctor himself spoke with me OTL;;;;
(edit also I CANNOT handle the glaucoma test - I've never, ever been able to stay calm and just do it. Well, back when it was that spurty spurt of air, I could, but now that shit touches your actual eyes (even tho they're numb, that shit's my b i g g e s t fear) I just cannot even try. I cry at the idea tbh lmao)
So, about me:
I've got an astigmatism. I was born with it, haha. I personally think it's because I was born 3 months early, but I know my twin's eyesight is much worse (she won't let the doctors examine her eyes). I learned recently though my dad has it, too. (I was out of contact with him for a very long time.)
My corneas are incorrectly shaped, causing light rays to focus on multiple points of my retina instead of one, thus causing multiple images. My image isn't really what I'd call 'blurry', it just isn't....sharp. Like, I can still tell what things are, the edges and details just are a little fuzzy. The worst thing for me is how bad my ghosting is - usually the real image plus 2 faint ones in my right eye, and the real image plus a second in my left. It's a refractive error.
Have some terribly edited images in an attempt to understand. Haha.
Right eye
Left eye
Together
Plus a little blur, which I didn't include. lmao.
As you can see, it would be difficult to read this way. In fact, for a time, I had to leave UF because reading was such a headache.
It's much worse at far distances, and it gets lesser the closer I get to an object.
Reading sucked since I was seeing so many of the same line, and lines would be covered by other lines. It was terrible. I'm only 20 ^__^; I feel like it'll get a lot worse before I'm 30, haha. The only option for correction is glasses, contacts, or surgery to reshape my corneas, but since they can't put me under for that, and because I'm more eye squeamish than anything else, that's a no go for me, hah....nnnn....
What about you guys?
Please do not post graphic (real) images of eyes unless they're in a spoiler with a small description of what it is, as I am incredibly eye squeamish. So eye squeamish it's probably honestly a phobia.
I'll have y'all know I only cried at the optometrist 4 times.
- Once in the waiting room
- Once at the first machine where they focus an image of a house
- Once when the nurse asked me questions about medical history (?????, I know, what the fvck)
- Aaaaaaand every time the doctor himself spoke with me OTL;;;;
(edit also I CANNOT handle the glaucoma test - I've never, ever been able to stay calm and just do it. Well, back when it was that spurty spurt of air, I could, but now that shit touches your actual eyes (even tho they're numb, that shit's my b i g g e s t fear) I just cannot even try. I cry at the idea tbh lmao)
So, about me:
I've got an astigmatism. I was born with it, haha. I personally think it's because I was born 3 months early, but I know my twin's eyesight is much worse (she won't let the doctors examine her eyes). I learned recently though my dad has it, too. (I was out of contact with him for a very long time.)
My corneas are incorrectly shaped, causing light rays to focus on multiple points of my retina instead of one, thus causing multiple images. My image isn't really what I'd call 'blurry', it just isn't....sharp. Like, I can still tell what things are, the edges and details just are a little fuzzy. The worst thing for me is how bad my ghosting is - usually the real image plus 2 faint ones in my right eye, and the real image plus a second in my left. It's a refractive error.
Have some terribly edited images in an attempt to understand. Haha.
Right eye
Left eye
Together
Plus a little blur, which I didn't include. lmao.
As you can see, it would be difficult to read this way. In fact, for a time, I had to leave UF because reading was such a headache.
It's much worse at far distances, and it gets lesser the closer I get to an object.
Reading sucked since I was seeing so many of the same line, and lines would be covered by other lines. It was terrible. I'm only 20 ^__^; I feel like it'll get a lot worse before I'm 30, haha. The only option for correction is glasses, contacts, or surgery to reshape my corneas, but since they can't put me under for that, and because I'm more eye squeamish than anything else, that's a no go for me, hah....nnnn....
What about you guys?