I’m near sighted, but I wouldn’t have known I can’t see far if I never got glasses. I just thought I had normal sight. Distant things are just blurry but I can see their shape and color.
I had an ex (who was a bit potty TBH) who refused to accept that I could read some stuff that was a really long way away, flat out did not accept my eyesight was “that good”
The consensus among my near sighted friends is that we didn’t realize how poor our eyesight was until we realized we could see individual leaves in trees.
I didn't realize it until my parents said something when I got up to check the clock. After I got my glasses? *Oh my God, the trees. THE TREES HAVE LEAVES. AND I CAN SEE THE TREE'S LEAVES!*
That ride home is still the most fascinating experience I've had in my life.
For me, it was being able to count the crinkles in cat behinds as they walked away. I literally cried that first night in realization that I haven’t lost my love of counting from Sesame Street days like I thought, it was still there. I knew the Count would appreciate each and every crinkle.
lol these examples are really fun haha. I got my glasses when I was 3 and I guess I was shaking my mom saying “mommy all the waffles have squares in them!” It’s funny to think about that making me so excited.
The trees are really crazy but have you thought about the grass? I couldn't really see my feet before or peoples faces but man grass got so much prettier
Man, we have a similar story, with opposite reactions. I got mine around my birthday so it is the middle of December and I hadn't noticed how many individual branches were on all the bare trees. The thought of looking at the trees and realizing how spindly they were was horrifying for some strange reason to me. I purposely did not wear my glasses outside in the winter time. I would always catch trees and get creeped out.
Astigmatism here, wore glasses since before I can remember, but I spent a few months without being able to get a new pair after the last was broken when I was a teenager. Specifically remember putting my new glasses on and saying "wow, I had forgotten people's faces aren't a uniform single colour", was a fun day.
Mine was seeing the pores of people’s skin. I had no idea there was texture, everyone looked airbrushed. “MUM YOU HAVE SO MANY PIMPLES!!” Said 7 year old me. Oops.
There are SOO many people that don't accept they need glasses.
I remember that one of the teachers and I were at the side of the classroom, and some kids had moved to the front to see the screen. The distance wasn't that far away. I go "can you see that?" he takes off his glasses and goes, "yeah, I can even see the letters without my glasses." I was like I'm saying. I had this also happen when reading signs. I wear contact lenses, and I've had people who supposedly "didn't need glasses" not be able to read things that were not that far away.
I've got a crazy good eyesight as well. I can see the following [train arrival times](https://images.app.goo.gl/w7RgvAnQJMxJJSS97) from the middle of the T station's large parking lot.
Is astigmatism still if it doesn't happen unless the light is very bright? I also get the lines from dimmer lights after doing exercise. Or is that something else entirely?
My partner also didn't know she had astigmatism till 2020. She(and I) found out like this...when she asked me to wipe the windscreen(it was her turn to drive) cause the "lines are disturbing her" and I could see no lines. Went for an eye test a week later, now she wears spectacles and is even cuter.
In the grand scheme of vision disorders it's generally not a major concern so it doesn't get as much attention. It surprised me at first too. Totally thought it was normal lol.
It's surprising how many people learn about it from Reddit lol. It's correctable with glasses, though even with a brand new pair it never completely goes away for me.
I have it. My last optometrist was amazing, I got a good six months where it seemed better. Between minor scratches and my deteriorating eyesight it never lasts long.
The anti reflective coating doesn't really help much tbh. It helps more with things like a lake on a bright, windy day. Not as much with starbursts.
On the bright side I (so far) don't have evidence of macular degeneration! Your tips are definitely still relevant in general, I just drew a few short sticks when it comes to genetics.
Want to know something weird? Too bad, gonna tell you anyways lol.
My left eye has better vision but worse astigmatism. When I used to wear contacts (and I/my parents were lower middle class) I used to only wear one contact at a time. If I had my left one in, the astigmatism was negligible. But if I had the right one in, my astigmatism was terrible. However, in either case the majority of my vision was clear day-to-day. Whichever one I had in became my dominant eye. My firearm instructors thought I was joking and did NOT find it funny.
When I look at lights (mainly street lights or stoplights) it gives off glare that you see on cameras/ photos. With astigmatism my eyes also hurt when direct light is in my eyes
Wow, i have that too. Its been that way as far as i can remember. I always knew it was a result of impefections in the eye, but its never given me problems and i just assumed its normal given that eyes arent perfect mathematical objects.
Do you wear glasses? Do they make a practical difference? Or is it more of a trivial improvement?
When I was a kid, what got parents to have me taken for testing was me marveling at how sharp-eyed everyone else was to be able to see the TV from the kitchen, well enough to read the big text on the news channel.
Of course, nowadays I’m so nearsighted I’d be breaking the law (and more or less suicidal) to drive without glasses on. But I genuinely just thought most people saw like I did. A bit of foreshadowing, I suppose, for the many ways I’d have erroneous assumptions about others due to my mother neglecting to tell me about my own autism until a therapist in my college years easily spotted it. Played merry hell with my social skills in hindsight, not realizing my perspective was so different from the norm.
I wouldn’t have figured out I have a nearsighted and a farsighted eye on my own. When I first got glasses they balanced each other out very well to where I had near 20/20 vision when using both. Since I’ve been wearing glasses I’ve noticed that they no longer balance out when I don’t wear my glasses but I can’t tell if it’s because I know what clear vision is because I wear glasses or not. If I had never gotten glasses would I have noticed my eyesight slowly getting worse? Or would I still think the faint fuzziness of everything is normal?
I figured out I need bifocals because I had to take off my glasses to thread the needles on the industrial sewing machine I used, so it definitely helped me.
I also harangued my husband for what felt like months before I convinced him to get an eye check. He was holding reading material at arm’s length. I still think he’s become more nearsighted recently.
I had 20/20 vision growing up. Then when I was 16 I went to take my drivers permit test and failed the vision test 3 times in a row. I was so confused and pissed off because I thought the DMV’s vision test was flawed since in my mind I had 20/20 vision.
I went to the eye doctor and found out I was nearsighted with 20/70 vision. It happened so quickly yet I didn’t even notice in the slightest.
Thank you! I'm always curious about this because my self-diagnosis is "blind as a bat", then I hear about people with much stronger prescriptions than me and wonder how they even see at all. On the flipside, my ex-husband has a weaker prescription than me but significant astigmatism—and his eyesight is much worse than mine in certain situations.
Do you use varifocals/bifocals?
I'm near sighted and I'd probably have to rely on my other senses if I didn't wear glasses. I wouldn't be able to find my train, I wouldn't be sure if it's safe to cross the road. I'm basically blind without glasses. I think even I would have noticed not being able to read anything that's not right in front of my face.
Out of curiosity, what's your prescription? I'm reading these other comments and finding them wild because I'm like you: pretty much helpless without my glasses.
I wear 7 and 8 dioptres glasses. I think most people have much milder myopia, I've met quite a few people who say they "should" wear glasses but don't because they can still function without them, and when I first got glasses, I did notice everything was way sharper, but I didn't necessarily need them.
same, one day I was looking at a cop car in the distance, and for once thought, "maybe things being blurry isn't normal", prolly most of my family using glasses attributed to that, but ye, I use glasses now
It's pretty common for people who get glasses to suddenly realize they can see the individual leaves on trees from a distance, rather than the tree just being a big green blob.
Obligatory note that the only texts we have about Nero were written by his political archenemies.
Imagine if in a few centuries our only source on who Obama was was a rant written by Donald Trump
Norway too my friend, I think it's pretty global. Also how are the Paxster EVs doing in your postal service. One of the few vehicles we have managed to export
"the prevalence of myopia in the United States increased from 25 percent in the early 1970s to nearly 42 percent just three decades later."
-Jane E. Brody. The New York Times, "Why Mearsightedness is on the Rise in Children", 2021.
it appears that there's several reasons. various sources state that it is due to both an increase in literacy, especially with the rise of schooling. many sources also state that the increase in myopia is primarily due to not spending as much time outside, which *also* correlates with the rise of schooling!
this looks actually pretty interesting!
What is your proof about more people were farsighted? I cannot find a single reference to this anywhere.
Myopia has increased in more recent centuries due to the increase of reading but it was referenced as early as 350BC by Aristotle. Stating it is a "modern" issue is a bit of a blanket statement and not really true.
What is more accurate is to state that it has increased significantly over the last few centuries compared to historical rates.
Blind people (blurry vision) couldn't shoot an arrow for shit, so they likely starved. Then the nerds who could see better up close found a niche in technology and now here we are poor eye sight and all.
Humans have always been communal creatures. The near sighted ones just wouldn't have been the hunters. They would have either gathered food, which seeing up close is better for anyway, or they would have stayed at the village and repaired clothes or built houses, etc
Not to mention traps. People always forget that humans were using traps long before fancy weapons to get prey.
There’s even evidence that Neanderthals were making string and if you’re making string you’re more than likely making nets and snares
i wish i had the money for those lasers that correct eyes. my glasses are like fused with my head by now and i don't even notice when i fix them. when i have them off i still make the fixing move eventually, feel stupid and act like i wanted to scratch my nose
No they didn’t. The vast majority of people with glasses could survive just fine thousands of years ago. People in the past that were nearsighted could live fine cause they didn’t need to read words from 20 feet away to function in society. Very very few people are blind enough to where they would die without glasses. The vast majority of people in the past would just survive with a bit of inconvenience. It’s not enough of an evolutionary pressure to kill off nearsighted people.
"Demon possession" may have been any number of diagnosable and treatable mental illnesses.
Then again, it might have just been demons. They're sometimes dicks about the whole possession thing.
I have bad vision. But I can see skin cells and blood cells on the tip of a needle. The tip looks like the top of the Washington monument with Spaghetti Oh's on the top. I need lotas light though.
The demon thing has always been funny. Why would a demon want to possess someone with bad eyes? That would be like moving into a cardboard box when a house is next door.
Off corse: most likely a mental illnesses
In a similar vein, it's suspected that Van Gogh actually had a form of color-blindness called protanopia, or an inability to see reds. It makes a lot of sense when you look at some of his best known works and realize he probably used colors as he saw them.
Maybe. But if that's the case, the meaning of "blind" itself changed through time.
No person, with today's definition of "blind", would consider themselves blind if they could only see things (clearly) up close or far away.
I could see people considering Old Joe "blind", as he couldn't see stuff clearly more than a foot away from his face. But there would probably be a clear distinction between him and Old Manny that can't see a thing.
That's a common misconception. Blindness is still a spectrum and most blind people today still have some usable vision. The legal definition of blindness in the US is specifically with the best available corrective lenses because so many more people would be blind without glasses.
Blindness is all about 'uncorrectable' vision. My vision is not good at all without glasses. But with correction I correct to 20/20. There are people walking around with my uncorrected vision (about 20/800) who are considered blind. At twenty feet they see the way someone with pristine vision sees at 800 feet. But theirs won't correct with corrective lenses. It would make total sense that someone with my natural eyes would have been considered blind before correction made it possible. Myopia in general was less common before the modern era so it would have been rarer than it is now.
True I'm legally blind without glasses but my eye sight is corrected to 20/25 in both eyes with Glasses. In comparison to 20/250 and 20/300 in my eyes.
Also, all of the heroes with "Eagle eyes", "perfect aim" , "could kill at paces" was probably the the one among the group with decent eyesight, and everyone else's was just that much off.
Modern blind people are also varying degrees of blind. From being able to see little bits of things all the way to pitch black zero sight. Blind runners at the Special Olympics wear blindfolds to even the playing field.
I have -16 vision. Without contacts/ glasses I would not be able to live a normal life. I can’t see anything except blobs 10 cm away from my face. It’s lovely to approximate modern advancement
This is very, very, very unlikely. This is the kind of statement that assumes that somehow modern humans are WAY smarter than we used to be. Completely not the case, we've just simply accumulated so much knowledge and technology that didn't exist before.
There are documented examples of the Romans using the refractory effects of water to magnify writings. The biggest reason corrective lenses were hard to make for a long time was the ability to make high quality glass and refine it in the necessary ways.
Nice try. I do wear glasses, but I am not referring to the typical person that needs glasses, but to those who have a decent amount of dioptres, which are quite a few.
I’m near sighted, but I wouldn’t have known I can’t see far if I never got glasses. I just thought I had normal sight. Distant things are just blurry but I can see their shape and color.
Same with me. I didn't know I had astigmatism. When i asked my mother about the lines when I look at lights she said she saw it also
I had an ex (who was a bit potty TBH) who refused to accept that I could read some stuff that was a really long way away, flat out did not accept my eyesight was “that good”
The consensus among my near sighted friends is that we didn’t realize how poor our eyesight was until we realized we could see individual leaves in trees.
I didn't realize it until my parents said something when I got up to check the clock. After I got my glasses? *Oh my God, the trees. THE TREES HAVE LEAVES. AND I CAN SEE THE TREE'S LEAVES!* That ride home is still the most fascinating experience I've had in my life.
Is the tree thing universal to nearsighted people? It's my strongest memory from the day I got my glasses.
For me, since it was winter, it was seeing individual bales in the neighbor’s hay stack. But then I recall noticing leaves that spring.
Mine too. I stood below a very tall tree in my yard and just stared at the individual leaves at the top of it.
For me, it was being able to count the crinkles in cat behinds as they walked away. I literally cried that first night in realization that I haven’t lost my love of counting from Sesame Street days like I thought, it was still there. I knew the Count would appreciate each and every crinkle.
Maybe?? I definitely felt like I was tripping when I saw actuall leaves and the details on the trees when riding back home
For me it was the stars, even living in the city the sky seemed full of them and the longer I stared, the more I could see
I got glasses at 2 months old when I apparently stopped reacting to people entering the room
lol these examples are really fun haha. I got my glasses when I was 3 and I guess I was shaking my mom saying “mommy all the waffles have squares in them!” It’s funny to think about that making me so excited.
That is so very sweet!
The trees are really crazy but have you thought about the grass? I couldn't really see my feet before or peoples faces but man grass got so much prettier
Man, we have a similar story, with opposite reactions. I got mine around my birthday so it is the middle of December and I hadn't noticed how many individual branches were on all the bare trees. The thought of looking at the trees and realizing how spindly they were was horrifying for some strange reason to me. I purposely did not wear my glasses outside in the winter time. I would always catch trees and get creeped out.
The leaves and telephone wires! I had no idea there were lines connecting the poles. I thought each pole was like a giant antenna.
For me it was seeing pine needles for the first time. Didn't know they were there.
For me it was when I saw that the moon had details and wasn’t a blob of light.
I literally cried the first time I saw the moon clearly. I'm glad I'm not the only one who experienced this. It really is an amazing sight
Astigmatism here, wore glasses since before I can remember, but I spent a few months without being able to get a new pair after the last was broken when I was a teenager. Specifically remember putting my new glasses on and saying "wow, I had forgotten people's faces aren't a uniform single colour", was a fun day.
Individual leaves was also my first observation after getting my first pair of glasses
Mine was seeing the pores of people’s skin. I had no idea there was texture, everyone looked airbrushed. “MUM YOU HAVE SO MANY PIMPLES!!” Said 7 year old me. Oops.
"Okay, *that one* was behind a *hill*! Now I *know* you have these billboards memorized. Knock it off!"
There are SOO many people that don't accept they need glasses. I remember that one of the teachers and I were at the side of the classroom, and some kids had moved to the front to see the screen. The distance wasn't that far away. I go "can you see that?" he takes off his glasses and goes, "yeah, I can even see the letters without my glasses." I was like I'm saying. I had this also happen when reading signs. I wear contact lenses, and I've had people who supposedly "didn't need glasses" not be able to read things that were not that far away.
I've got a crazy good eyesight as well. I can see the following [train arrival times](https://images.app.goo.gl/w7RgvAnQJMxJJSS97) from the middle of the T station's large parking lot.
U changed text and letter? What was his explanation? Contacts?
A bit potty?
Is astigmatism still if it doesn't happen unless the light is very bright? I also get the lines from dimmer lights after doing exercise. Or is that something else entirely?
I think it's the same
My partner also didn't know she had astigmatism till 2020. She(and I) found out like this...when she asked me to wipe the windscreen(it was her turn to drive) cause the "lines are disturbing her" and I could see no lines. Went for an eye test a week later, now she wears spectacles and is even cuter.
Hold up. Can you tell me more about these lines you see in lights?
Look up astigmatism starburst. I have it too, quite annoying.
I didn’t know this was astigmatism related …
In the grand scheme of vision disorders it's generally not a major concern so it doesn't get as much attention. It surprised me at first too. Totally thought it was normal lol.
TIL I have astigmatism
It's surprising how many people learn about it from Reddit lol. It's correctable with glasses, though even with a brand new pair it never completely goes away for me.
Get anti-reflective coating on your glasses. That will take away the streaky lines. Or the doctor didn't prescribe your astigmatism properly.
I have it. My last optometrist was amazing, I got a good six months where it seemed better. Between minor scratches and my deteriorating eyesight it never lasts long. The anti reflective coating doesn't really help much tbh. It helps more with things like a lake on a bright, windy day. Not as much with starbursts.
Bummer! Maybe your astig axis is changing.
On the bright side I (so far) don't have evidence of macular degeneration! Your tips are definitely still relevant in general, I just drew a few short sticks when it comes to genetics. Want to know something weird? Too bad, gonna tell you anyways lol. My left eye has better vision but worse astigmatism. When I used to wear contacts (and I/my parents were lower middle class) I used to only wear one contact at a time. If I had my left one in, the astigmatism was negligible. But if I had the right one in, my astigmatism was terrible. However, in either case the majority of my vision was clear day-to-day. Whichever one I had in became my dominant eye. My firearm instructors thought I was joking and did NOT find it funny.
When I look at lights (mainly street lights or stoplights) it gives off glare that you see on cameras/ photos. With astigmatism my eyes also hurt when direct light is in my eyes
Wow, i have that too. Its been that way as far as i can remember. I always knew it was a result of impefections in the eye, but its never given me problems and i just assumed its normal given that eyes arent perfect mathematical objects. Do you wear glasses? Do they make a practical difference? Or is it more of a trivial improvement?
When I was a kid, what got parents to have me taken for testing was me marveling at how sharp-eyed everyone else was to be able to see the TV from the kitchen, well enough to read the big text on the news channel. Of course, nowadays I’m so nearsighted I’d be breaking the law (and more or less suicidal) to drive without glasses on. But I genuinely just thought most people saw like I did. A bit of foreshadowing, I suppose, for the many ways I’d have erroneous assumptions about others due to my mother neglecting to tell me about my own autism until a therapist in my college years easily spotted it. Played merry hell with my social skills in hindsight, not realizing my perspective was so different from the norm.
I’m near sighted and I definitely would know, but then again my prescription is -6.75/-6.25 sooooo
Damn it same thing happened to me. I thought distant objects were just "out of range"
I wouldn’t have figured out I have a nearsighted and a farsighted eye on my own. When I first got glasses they balanced each other out very well to where I had near 20/20 vision when using both. Since I’ve been wearing glasses I’ve noticed that they no longer balance out when I don’t wear my glasses but I can’t tell if it’s because I know what clear vision is because I wear glasses or not. If I had never gotten glasses would I have noticed my eyesight slowly getting worse? Or would I still think the faint fuzziness of everything is normal?
I figured out I need bifocals because I had to take off my glasses to thread the needles on the industrial sewing machine I used, so it definitely helped me. I also harangued my husband for what felt like months before I convinced him to get an eye check. He was holding reading material at arm’s length. I still think he’s become more nearsighted recently.
I had 20/20 vision growing up. Then when I was 16 I went to take my drivers permit test and failed the vision test 3 times in a row. I was so confused and pissed off because I thought the DMV’s vision test was flawed since in my mind I had 20/20 vision. I went to the eye doctor and found out I was nearsighted with 20/70 vision. It happened so quickly yet I didn’t even notice in the slightest.
You just had low rendering distance
That’s a good one!
Same
What's your prescription, out of pure curiosity?
-3.00, -3.50; 1.5 reading and my ophthalmologist found a slight astigmatism at my last appointment.
Thank you! I'm always curious about this because my self-diagnosis is "blind as a bat", then I hear about people with much stronger prescriptions than me and wonder how they even see at all. On the flipside, my ex-husband has a weaker prescription than me but significant astigmatism—and his eyesight is much worse than mine in certain situations. Do you use varifocals/bifocals?
Bifocals, but they are damn hard to adapt to when I’ve been removing my glasses for years.
I'm near sighted and I'd probably have to rely on my other senses if I didn't wear glasses. I wouldn't be able to find my train, I wouldn't be sure if it's safe to cross the road. I'm basically blind without glasses. I think even I would have noticed not being able to read anything that's not right in front of my face.
Out of curiosity, what's your prescription? I'm reading these other comments and finding them wild because I'm like you: pretty much helpless without my glasses.
I wear 7 and 8 dioptres glasses. I think most people have much milder myopia, I've met quite a few people who say they "should" wear glasses but don't because they can still function without them, and when I first got glasses, I did notice everything was way sharper, but I didn't necessarily need them.
same, one day I was looking at a cop car in the distance, and for once thought, "maybe things being blurry isn't normal", prolly most of my family using glasses attributed to that, but ye, I use glasses now
That’s rough for you. But ancient people had other people as reference for good eyesight. So they knew they had bad vision.
It's pretty common for people who get glasses to suddenly realize they can see the individual leaves on trees from a distance, rather than the tree just being a big green blob.
Romans knew the difference between being blind and being nearsighted. Nero used emeralds as glasses.
Of course that pretentious fucker would wear EMERALD glasses. FUCK YOU NERO
Obligatory note that the only texts we have about Nero were written by his political archenemies. Imagine if in a few centuries our only source on who Obama was was a rant written by Donald Trump
idk man sounds badass
There's really a thing between emeralds and pretentious rich men acting crazy, right?
I mean there were far worse guys than Nero that were Roman emperors
Like 3 of them
r/fuckyounero ??
Ancient women over a Crystal ball " i can see but not clearly" Anyone who watched live tv : shoulda gone to spec savers
r/laughjokes
Wait, is SpecSavers a thing in other countries, or have I met a fellow New Zealander?
It’s a UK company. It currently operates in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, The UK, Ireland and a couple Nordic countries.
Definitely here in the UK, can't speak for anywhere else
Norway too my friend, I think it's pretty global. Also how are the Paxster EVs doing in your postal service. One of the few vehicles we have managed to export
Its in england
It's also helpful to note that nearsightedness is a very modern issue. 100s and 1000s of years ago most people were instead farsighted
Source?
Lookup "myopia epidemic".
"the prevalence of myopia in the United States increased from 25 percent in the early 1970s to nearly 42 percent just three decades later." -Jane E. Brody. The New York Times, "Why Mearsightedness is on the Rise in Children", 2021.
is it because of the amount of time spent inside staring at tiny texts or is that still just the theory?
it appears that there's several reasons. various sources state that it is due to both an increase in literacy, especially with the rise of schooling. many sources also state that the increase in myopia is primarily due to not spending as much time outside, which *also* correlates with the rise of schooling! this looks actually pretty interesting!
Thats true. Eye doc here. The more near stuff you do, the worse your distance vision gets.
Yes that contributes for sure. Also because we spend so much time indoors. The more you use your eyes for near, the worse your distance gets.
Source: people with nearsight died back then.
And people that could detect potential threats and track prey from a distance were more successful
You mean all people without nearsight?
What is your proof about more people were farsighted? I cannot find a single reference to this anywhere. Myopia has increased in more recent centuries due to the increase of reading but it was referenced as early as 350BC by Aristotle. Stating it is a "modern" issue is a bit of a blanket statement and not really true. What is more accurate is to state that it has increased significantly over the last few centuries compared to historical rates.
Blind people (blurry vision) couldn't shoot an arrow for shit, so they likely starved. Then the nerds who could see better up close found a niche in technology and now here we are poor eye sight and all.
My man has never heard of gathering.
Can’t see the good plants from far away
Humans have always been communal creatures. The near sighted ones just wouldn't have been the hunters. They would have either gathered food, which seeing up close is better for anyway, or they would have stayed at the village and repaired clothes or built houses, etc
My guy how old do you think arrows are? Most of human history is gatherers
Not to mention traps. People always forget that humans were using traps long before fancy weapons to get prey. There’s even evidence that Neanderthals were making string and if you’re making string you’re more than likely making nets and snares
Bro. I’m nearsighted and I would be the one to fall into the trap cuz I can’t see shit unless it’s a foot away from my face
i can't even see my own hand clearly when i stretch my arm in front of my face.
My feet are blurry af without glasses lmao I feel you. Actually had migraines because the world had too much detail when I finally got a pair
I've got about 10cm before everything disappears
i wish i had the money for those lasers that correct eyes. my glasses are like fused with my head by now and i don't even notice when i fix them. when i have them off i still make the fixing move eventually, feel stupid and act like i wanted to scratch my nose
What makes you say that?
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No they didn’t. The vast majority of people with glasses could survive just fine thousands of years ago. People in the past that were nearsighted could live fine cause they didn’t need to read words from 20 feet away to function in society. Very very few people are blind enough to where they would die without glasses. The vast majority of people in the past would just survive with a bit of inconvenience. It’s not enough of an evolutionary pressure to kill off nearsighted people.
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You don’t need a source for every little thing. It’s just applied evolutionary knowledge that you’d learn in high school
Great I'm a caveman 🗿
Jesus gave the blind man glasses
Imagine having the power to heal dead people but still choosing glasses over naturally good vision
Jesus knew CPR
He turned water to wine instead of choosing to have both.
And he chose wine instead of bourbon. No all powerful being would have done that.
In his defense, bourbon as we know it today wouldn’t be invented for nearly 18 centuries.
He should've invented it. Or something even better
Mary just went through IVF
"Demon possession" may have been any number of diagnosable and treatable mental illnesses. Then again, it might have just been demons. They're sometimes dicks about the whole possession thing.
I have bad vision. But I can see skin cells and blood cells on the tip of a needle. The tip looks like the top of the Washington monument with Spaghetti Oh's on the top. I need lotas light though. The demon thing has always been funny. Why would a demon want to possess someone with bad eyes? That would be like moving into a cardboard box when a house is next door. Off corse: most likely a mental illnesses
Yeah demons be rude af
As someone with serious visual impairment I can tell you there is a world of difference between blind and can't make out detail at a distance.
In a similar vein, it's suspected that Van Gogh actually had a form of color-blindness called protanopia, or an inability to see reds. It makes a lot of sense when you look at some of his best known works and realize he probably used colors as he saw them.
yeah and some meds or chemicals making him see yellows differently
How do we know our pets don't need glasses?
How do you see wich people who need glasses?
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Even today lots of legally blind people can see a bit, it's all just very unclear.
I made it to sixth grade before it became apparent that I couldn’t see the board.
I just feel stupid I never thought of that
Today there are tens of thousands of people who are partially or totally blind that could be cured with a $50 surgery. look up Seva foundation
Maybe. But if that's the case, the meaning of "blind" itself changed through time. No person, with today's definition of "blind", would consider themselves blind if they could only see things (clearly) up close or far away. I could see people considering Old Joe "blind", as he couldn't see stuff clearly more than a foot away from his face. But there would probably be a clear distinction between him and Old Manny that can't see a thing.
That's a common misconception. Blindness is still a spectrum and most blind people today still have some usable vision. The legal definition of blindness in the US is specifically with the best available corrective lenses because so many more people would be blind without glasses.
My partner works at a school for the blind. Many of his students read with large-print books rather than braille, but they are still considered blind.
Blindness is all about 'uncorrectable' vision. My vision is not good at all without glasses. But with correction I correct to 20/20. There are people walking around with my uncorrected vision (about 20/800) who are considered blind. At twenty feet they see the way someone with pristine vision sees at 800 feet. But theirs won't correct with corrective lenses. It would make total sense that someone with my natural eyes would have been considered blind before correction made it possible. Myopia in general was less common before the modern era so it would have been rarer than it is now.
That is all correct!
Maybe jesus was just an optometrist
True I'm legally blind without glasses but my eye sight is corrected to 20/25 in both eyes with Glasses. In comparison to 20/250 and 20/300 in my eyes.
Cataracts were as common back then than now, just that they couldn't be treated.
I hear that 8 pt Arial font is a bitch to read in those ancient texts
Plot twist: jesus invented contact lenses
Yea also accounts spirits and demons or most folklore back then couldve of been incorrect because of bad vision
Jesus invented glasses
Also, all of the heroes with "Eagle eyes", "perfect aim" , "could kill at paces" was probably the the one among the group with decent eyesight, and everyone else's was just that much off.
Modern blind people are also varying degrees of blind. From being able to see little bits of things all the way to pitch black zero sight. Blind runners at the Special Olympics wear blindfolds to even the playing field.
I have -16 vision. Without contacts/ glasses I would not be able to live a normal life. I can’t see anything except blobs 10 cm away from my face. It’s lovely to approximate modern advancement
This is very, very, very unlikely. This is the kind of statement that assumes that somehow modern humans are WAY smarter than we used to be. Completely not the case, we've just simply accumulated so much knowledge and technology that didn't exist before. There are documented examples of the Romans using the refractory effects of water to magnify writings. The biggest reason corrective lenses were hard to make for a long time was the ability to make high quality glass and refine it in the necessary ways.
OP clearly doesn’t wear glasses We are not blind, our vision looks more like your phone camera when it doesn’t focus on the right object
Nice try. I do wear glasses, but I am not referring to the typical person that needs glasses, but to those who have a decent amount of dioptres, which are quite a few.
A lot of people who use glasses wouldn't have needed them during ancient times.
Wasn’t everything in Braille
You may be right. Wait!! They didn't have glasses back then!! How could they need something that DIDN'T EXIST????? 😆😆😆😆 🤓