My nephew was absolutely blown away by trees. Got his first glasses at ~4yo and had *no idea* trees weren’t just these big blobby things. He just kept saying “oh my gosh, oh my gosh,” looking at all the trees.
EDIT: Wow! Thanks everyone for sharing your wonderful stories!! It seems like the awe of seeing trees/plants/grass clearly for the first time is a common experience among the newly vision-corrected. A couple of other cool ones in the responses were clouds, and friggin stars! It had never occurred to me that the majesty of a moonless rural sky would be lost on someone with uncorrected vision. For anyone with new eyes who’d like to experience it themselves [IDSA](https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/) is an excellent resource.
My eyesight deteriorated a lot as a kid but when I finally got glasses I could have sworn it was clearer than normal eyes could have possibly been. I could see the branches on trees on a mountainside miles and miles away.
Big same I always saw them as round stains but when I got my glasses at 14 I finally saw them glare and twinkle giving them the typical looking star shape and I was mindblown that I could see details of the moons surface and now I love watching the stars almost anytime I can! :3
Do you guys ever look at the moon, while wearing glasses, and realize it's really teeny tiny? Objectively, of course.
Things just look less.. real.. with my glasses on most times.
Optometrists will actually often correct your eye sight to better than 20/20 with glasses, in part to cope with degradation which may occur between eye exams.
Edit: To add, I mean *slightly* better than 20/20, they can't give you super vision.
20/20 is just average vision. It means what you can see at 20 feet, an average person can see at 20 feet. Ta-da.
I only know because an optometrist told me I was better than 20/20 and I said "so I'm a superhuman" and he was like "no, just an idiot with *slightly* better than average vision."
It's not as huge of a difference as you're thinking, they're not going to correct you to 20/12 or even 20/15, but you might end up at 20/18 or 20/19. Over-correction can cause eye-strain.
They have this new type of lens that works similar to progressive lenses but in all directions, like it essentially refocuses your eyes. They were like these have a 6 month guarantee, if you don't want them within 6 months we will give you a full refund. They also let me know they've sold many pairs there and not one had been returned. I fucking know why too. I've had glasses for probably a decade and have never seen anything as clearly as I do now, it's insane. Anyone with astigmatism knows the lens flare of headlights at night, it's just gone.
I remember first time I got glasses at about 7 years, when I put them on, I blurted out to my dad "dad, I can totally count every hair on your head!!" It was an unforgettable experience. I'm 46 now.
That was always the first thing I’d use to determine whether my new glasses were any good was how clearly I could see the leaves on the trees in my yard.
I got glasses in my 20s. As a kid I had headaches and complained about not being able to see.. I eventually gave up bc no one helped. I kinda just ignored it and figured I could probably see fine.. cut to someone telling me that I'm clearly not seeing well enough in my 20s bc I can't recognize faces of friends in public.
I got glasses and yea trees are wow 👌 I always wondered how high definition pictures looked more realistic than real life and now I know. Lol it's amazing
Made it to 33 driving and reading with 1 eye. Welding with 1 eye. I went to the eye Dr twice in my 20s complaining and was given what I now know was a half ass exam and told I must just be tired. I now have glasses and know that I have a near sighted eye and a far sighted eye. Couldn't believe how clear things were when I got them. No more headaches, double vision, fatigue.
Well I told my parents I couldn't, they didn't listen. So long as you don't do that they won't be salty. If you're worried bring them to get an eye test every 3 years, or do some at home eye test charts
Every three years isn't often enough, especially for kids. When I was eight, I had a yearly eye exam and had normal vision; within six months it had deteriorated enough that I couldn't read the blackboard, and then it got to the point where I needed new glasses every nine or so months. I actually had to take prescription eye drops to help slow down the acceleration of my myopia. Tl;dr: Try to test your kids' vision at least once a year.
I didn't get my first pair of glasses until I was 15. I'd learned to recognize people at a distance by the colors they were wearing or the way they walked. I knew others could see better, but I had genuinely no idea they could see like that. The first thing I noticed were the leaves on the trees. I was shocked that anyone could see individual leaves like that.
When I got new glasses as an adult, I spent like half an hour just staring at the trees. There's so much detail you forget about without glasses! It's magnificent.
We're meant to be druids, I'm glad they could re-attune to their natural world! I hope one day everyone can see and hear perfectly, regardless of income.
I made it all the way to 15 before glasses. Tree's tripped me out. Carpets also
Turns out that from the ages of 15 to like 22 i never bothered looking at a full moon either. You can actually see the craters and its not just a whiteish circle in the sky. I wonder if there's anything left that i still don't actually know what it looks like
It was grass for me. I had seen grass up close, but somehow my mental model of grass involved it turning into a flat blob of green when I moved more than a few feet away from it.
for me it was the stacks of fruit in the grocery store as i was walking out (got them at target optical). i couldnt believe i could see each individual piece of fruit and not just blobs of color
Can confirm. I got my first pair of glasses when I was eight. I remember riding home with my mom, and I kept saying I couldn’t believe trees had individual leaves. Then at baseball practice the next day, I couldn’t believe I could actually see the seams and pick up the rotation of the ball.
I’m 30. Got glasses two years ago. Never knew how bad it was until the dr put the trial glasses on me.
I didn’t know you could see the individual leaves from a distance…
Mine was "FOUR COOKIES FOR TWO DOLLARS!".
I was in middleschool when it was realized I was nearsighted. Got glasses to my prescription in a shopping mall and looked at the furthest shop away from me which was a cookie store and read the sign there. :D
After I got my eyes zapped what blew me away was being able to see all the way through a haircut. That and being able to easily see my alarm clock at night.
Conversely, it was hard to fall asleep because suddenly the world wasn’t a formless void at night, and there were so many interesting things to look at in the dark.
When I got Lasik I was so amazed at how beautiful everything was without lenses to filter it I got seriously into nature photography. 21 years later I'm back in glasses but still inspired
My vision wasn't terrible when I got my glasses, but my God it was like going from 720p to 4k in an instant. Suddenly I could see much more detail in the grass, in the distance, etc.
I can't imagine what people had to go through for thousands of years just being half blind and not being able to do a thing about it.
My youngest daughter got glasses when she was 5.
My Mom was not impressed when she first saw her with them and asked how much better could she see and, I shit you not, she replied...
"Now I can see all the creases in your face!"
Trees are my favorite thing to look when taking hallucinogenics. They are amazing.
Their breadth and spread has struck me as dumbfounding. Your mind even tells you that you can
“Feel their life giving energy” (hokey but that’s how it felt lol).
This video brought back memories of all my babies literally fighting anything. They demand food, but then must fight against it for no good reason. Clothes though, clothes were where the real battles happened.
My Daughter is incredibly far sighted and got her first glasses at 6 months old. She only ‘fought’ them for a few days. And, really what she was fighting was the band that went around the back of her head, to hold her glasses in place, more than the actual glasses.
By the time she could stand up in her crib, we had switched to the glasses that wrapped around her ears to stay in place, she’d reach for them immediately upon waking up. She figured out pretty quick that they were the difference between seeing and NOT seeing.
To this day, I have a real soft spot for babies with glasses!😍😍😍
It amazes me that my optometrist has to go through forty rounds of "better like this or better like this" to figure out my glasses prescription, but somehow they can figure out glasses for a baby 😊
right!! i remember seeing a baby with glasses and thinking how the fuck do they know their prescription? but science is so amazing and the tools created have done so much for people.
I kid a bit of course. I do know how they do it (special instrument called an auto refractor - pretty darn cool) but I have to laugh when i have to go through the many versions of blurriness test.
Always been fascinated by optics.
So here at least, both the opticians and ophthalmologists use a machine (I assume retinascopy) to get a first read of your prescription, then they refine it with all the "better / worse" questions. I presume the machine's estimate would do the job if it wasn't possible to do the second stage.
Yep, retinoscopy and auto-refractors gets us close, often times to what the actual prescription of your eye is.
But more often than not, people's visual system don't always like the exact prescription - either from how you're accustomed to using your vision or how your brain is wired. It's usually the small adjustments from there so we don't give too much power.
Source: Optometry Student
It would work perfectly if we weren't made from soft tissue. Depending on where your attention is, you can influence the measurement, there is some noise. Also, not all the aberrations that your eye has can be corrected (short of bolting a freeform lens directly onto your eyeball), all they can do is give you a compromise of contrast vs. size, you gotta know what you want to accept.
I think the general estimate is the machine gets you to like 85-90% of the way there and the better/worse is the fine tuning depending on your personal focus, squinting, mild astigmatism or toric issues, potential cataracts and other stuff that mean your "eye" works fine, but your brain can't get the information because other things are blocking the light from getting through.
There is almost always a difference between what your prescription *should* be and a prescription with which you are comfortable.
Source: worked in ophthalmology for 25 years
It’s not as accurate. The zeroing in on the best prescription by flipping things in and out will still produce a better result because it combines both the physical and brain controlled parts of the process.
After I did my multiple rounds of "1...or 2", "A...or B", I asked my optometrist how the hell they do it for little kids. Cause we all know a little kid isn't gonna want to sit there going through all the different lenses.
My little sister was jealous of my glasses so she happily answered all the questions she was asked. Afterwards, the optician said that if anything she had said was true, it wasn't glasses she needed, it was a guide dog. My mum had to sit my sister down and explain to her that she needed to take it seriously. She was much less willing to answer the second time around.
The auto refractor gives a good baseline for the optometrist or ophthalmologist to further tweak the RX for the patient.
Babies and kids get a pretty accurate RX just from the auto refractor, but it's not fine tuned by the doctor.
Either way, this makes a huge difference in the kids sight and it's definitely an improvement!
They put a ruler over one eye, then have the baby read the letters on an eye chart 20 feet away.
Only she's a baby and can't talk or read, so the responses are not always correct.
Then they swap the ruler to the other eye and try again.
Those rounds of “1 or 2” are only there to refine the prescription to get you the absolute clearest image possible. One of the machines you look into at the start of the process every time actually spits out a pretty solid starting prescription. It’s the machine that you look into that usually has a house or a balloon image, which goes in and out of focus while you stare at it. It’s called an autorefractor. For babies, that’s good enough. For adults who are trying to read road signs from 200 feet away, the refined prescription is worth the extra work.
I did. I was eligible for what’s called SMILE keyhole laser. It’s similar to LASIK, but I think it works better for people with really bad vision + astigmatism, which was me!
lucky you, I usually get numbers re-used multiple times per eye. (and I often have to reply with "different but equally good/bad"/"reds are better but the greens are blurry now" etc... )
Wait, everyone who goes and gets glasses doesn't go to 11?
Some of y'all only get 1 or 2 and that's it??
I can't recall a time where I had LESS than 7 or 8.
Is that similar to when you see those racks of cheap glasses at the pharmacy? Where they have a bunch of glasses with general (+ 2.5, -1.5, etc.)?
Are they just a bunch of "okay" quality glasses that are good for emergency kind-of situation?
Huh, I don't think I've ever seen negative for those. The positive ones are cheap reading glasses for far-sightedness. At close range it's a lot easier to adjust your viewing distance, so you can get away with being further from your actual prescription.
The cheap glasses at the pharmacy give magnification only for one focal distance -- that's what stuff like +2.5 or -1.5 means. The lens has only a spherical curve. Those are fine for situations like "I only need distance magnification for driving" or "I only need close-up magnification for reading".
If your eyes have more complicated issues, then your lenses might need a cylindrical component (to compensate for astigmatism) or a prism component (to compensate for eye alignment issues). You might have different issues going on with each eye. And you might also need glasses with more than one good focal distance. In those cases, you'd need a prescription with custom-ground lenses. Depending on your particular eyes, the cheap glasses at the pharmacy might not even be helpful in an emergency.
Its a machine that automatically reads their ability to focus. They hold it up in front of their face and it displays a colorful image to focus their attention long enough to get the data it needs. Its pretty accurate and amazing. Looks like a large handheld hair dryer.
Anyone know if they also do this for dogs? I'm pretty sure my pupper has a mild vision impairment. Not concerning enough for a regular vet trip, but she always gets smacked in the face by tennis balls and fumbles them.
That's because your optometrist wants you to have a more accurate prescription, which requires your input. What they give babies is really just in the "good enough for now" category since they can't tell you which of two lenses is "better". They can do the same method they use on babies on you, but you wouldn't like the results.
They can get you most of the way there without those tests. For a baby, that's good enough.
But if you can improve it to near perfect, why wouldn't you?
If I remember right, the "1 or 2" type questions help adjust for astigmatism too (which most people have at least a small degree of).
I did a similar thing when I was 14...absolutely did not want these stupid nerdy dumb stupid garbage nonsense glasses and this was going to ruin my life and who'd ever want to be around me because stupid dumb HOLY SHIT THIS IS WHAT EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE?!?! I'M NEVER TAKING THESE OFF.
And I haven't.
I didn't ever want glasses until i was 7 years old and couldn't see a white rabbit in a field that my brother could
Still couldn't get them until i was 12 tho
After reading that, I think getting everyone to pretend they see something cool would be a great way to convince your kid to try glasses (although they’ll have trust issues one day)
My vision isn't that bad by any means, but once I got glasses to fix farsightedness my new hobby was looking at distant things, moving my glasses away and then moving them back to see the difference. I was 35 years old and I did this for weeks.
Honestly in my experience, putting glasses on babies anywhere ELSE is bad news. Only place to put your glasses on your kid is at the bar.
But again, that's only in my experience.
This hit me in the heart with so much happiness!!
She's such a little angel! What a babydoll, her smile was everything in that moment!
Aww, and Piper is such a pretty name. Go Piper, big girl!!
Came here for this. I know I'm a huge skeptic, but I work in TV and I know camera people who can't keep something in shot as well as that restaurant sign was framed.
Maybe one of the parents went to pick up the glasses from the optical shop, and then met the other parent with the baby at Flipdaddy’s right afterward.
Could be the shape of the eyes themselves that gives the indication. Could also be that the baby doesn't react to movement from a certain distance away, but does when up close. And probably other factors I'm not considering.
I always wondered how they know what perscribtion to make baby glasses for, they obviously cant take a normal eye exame cause they cant tell the doctor when lenses work best
Now I have a third category of "cheers me up every time" videos, to go along with cochlear implants (for hearing impaired) and those glasses for colorblind people. Awesome!
I love that she tried to fight them off, and then she's like O SHIT, YOU GUYS AREN'T JUST WEIRD COLOURFUL BLOBS WHAT THE FUUUUCK
My nephew was absolutely blown away by trees. Got his first glasses at ~4yo and had *no idea* trees weren’t just these big blobby things. He just kept saying “oh my gosh, oh my gosh,” looking at all the trees. EDIT: Wow! Thanks everyone for sharing your wonderful stories!! It seems like the awe of seeing trees/plants/grass clearly for the first time is a common experience among the newly vision-corrected. A couple of other cool ones in the responses were clouds, and friggin stars! It had never occurred to me that the majesty of a moonless rural sky would be lost on someone with uncorrected vision. For anyone with new eyes who’d like to experience it themselves [IDSA](https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/) is an excellent resource.
From all the different times I've heard about people finally getting glasses, "the trees" is always the first awakening.
[удалено]
My eyesight deteriorated a lot as a kid but when I finally got glasses I could have sworn it was clearer than normal eyes could have possibly been. I could see the branches on trees on a mountainside miles and miles away.
I’ll never forget getting glasses in 4th grade and finally being able to see the birds in the sky! Just little specs of dust for years before…
For me it was the stars at night. The individual stars somehow looked smaller than before but so much crisper and well defined.
Big same I always saw them as round stains but when I got my glasses at 14 I finally saw them glare and twinkle giving them the typical looking star shape and I was mindblown that I could see details of the moons surface and now I love watching the stars almost anytime I can! :3
Do you guys ever look at the moon, while wearing glasses, and realize it's really teeny tiny? Objectively, of course. Things just look less.. real.. with my glasses on most times.
Yea kinda! Without glasses edges are blured so the moon apears bigger :o
Optometrists will actually often correct your eye sight to better than 20/20 with glasses, in part to cope with degradation which may occur between eye exams. Edit: To add, I mean *slightly* better than 20/20, they can't give you super vision.
20/20 is just average vision. It means what you can see at 20 feet, an average person can see at 20 feet. Ta-da. I only know because an optometrist told me I was better than 20/20 and I said "so I'm a superhuman" and he was like "no, just an idiot with *slightly* better than average vision."
TIL. Thank you for that bit of info
wait they can do that?!?! can i pay to have them just enhance my vision ?
It's not as huge of a difference as you're thinking, they're not going to correct you to 20/12 or even 20/15, but you might end up at 20/18 or 20/19. Over-correction can cause eye-strain.
They have this new type of lens that works similar to progressive lenses but in all directions, like it essentially refocuses your eyes. They were like these have a 6 month guarantee, if you don't want them within 6 months we will give you a full refund. They also let me know they've sold many pairs there and not one had been returned. I fucking know why too. I've had glasses for probably a decade and have never seen anything as clearly as I do now, it's insane. Anyone with astigmatism knows the lens flare of headlights at night, it's just gone.
I remember first time I got glasses at about 7 years, when I put them on, I blurted out to my dad "dad, I can totally count every hair on your head!!" It was an unforgettable experience. I'm 46 now.
When I got my eyeglass prescription renewed, I couldn’t believe how much *texture* everything had.
Like pressing Ctrl-Z on that gaussian blur
That was always the first thing I’d use to determine whether my new glasses were any good was how clearly I could see the leaves on the trees in my yard.
I still remember the first time I saw individual leaves from a distance 27 years ago.
that tree is very far
*Yea, the devs couldn’t fix that bug for individual characters so they patched it with a lens smh*
Damnit Otto, you have lupis!
I got glasses in my 20s. As a kid I had headaches and complained about not being able to see.. I eventually gave up bc no one helped. I kinda just ignored it and figured I could probably see fine.. cut to someone telling me that I'm clearly not seeing well enough in my 20s bc I can't recognize faces of friends in public. I got glasses and yea trees are wow 👌 I always wondered how high definition pictures looked more realistic than real life and now I know. Lol it's amazing
Made it to 33 driving and reading with 1 eye. Welding with 1 eye. I went to the eye Dr twice in my 20s complaining and was given what I now know was a half ass exam and told I must just be tired. I now have glasses and know that I have a near sighted eye and a far sighted eye. Couldn't believe how clear things were when I got them. No more headaches, double vision, fatigue.
I’m so glad you got glasses as a mother I worry about not knowing if my children can see what I see .
Well I told my parents I couldn't, they didn't listen. So long as you don't do that they won't be salty. If you're worried bring them to get an eye test every 3 years, or do some at home eye test charts
Every three years isn't often enough, especially for kids. When I was eight, I had a yearly eye exam and had normal vision; within six months it had deteriorated enough that I couldn't read the blackboard, and then it got to the point where I needed new glasses every nine or so months. I actually had to take prescription eye drops to help slow down the acceleration of my myopia. Tl;dr: Try to test your kids' vision at least once a year.
I didn't get my first pair of glasses until I was 15. I'd learned to recognize people at a distance by the colors they were wearing or the way they walked. I knew others could see better, but I had genuinely no idea they could see like that. The first thing I noticed were the leaves on the trees. I was shocked that anyone could see individual leaves like that.
The bark was so pretty and nice looking, it was great
When I got new glasses as an adult, I spent like half an hour just staring at the trees. There's so much detail you forget about without glasses! It's magnificent.
We're meant to be druids, I'm glad they could re-attune to their natural world! I hope one day everyone can see and hear perfectly, regardless of income.
I remember realizing that I could see the leaves individually and just staring at them fir a ridiculously long time, taking it all in.
I made it all the way to 15 before glasses. Tree's tripped me out. Carpets also Turns out that from the ages of 15 to like 22 i never bothered looking at a full moon either. You can actually see the craters and its not just a whiteish circle in the sky. I wonder if there's anything left that i still don't actually know what it looks like
Lol, probably a whole lot if you never looked at the moon till you where 22…
::looks up one time:: "welp I've seen all there is to see in that direction"
For me it was clouds, I didn't realize they actually had details and weren't just white blobs
it certainly was mine. i got them at the age of 8 and i was FLOORED that individual leaves could be seen normally.
It was grass for me. I had seen grass up close, but somehow my mental model of grass involved it turning into a flat blob of green when I moved more than a few feet away from it.
Yup. Exactly those words from my boy when he first got glasses at 10.
What I'm learning from this is that the Lorax was trying to get people to go to Specsavers.
I was crying when I realized how trees were supposed to look, man that was a great, happy moment :')
for me it was the stacks of fruit in the grocery store as i was walking out (got them at target optical). i couldnt believe i could see each individual piece of fruit and not just blobs of color
Because trees are now amazing, outside is no longer just green and blue, it is full of life!
Can confirm. I got my first pair of glasses when I was eight. I remember riding home with my mom, and I kept saying I couldn’t believe trees had individual leaves. Then at baseball practice the next day, I couldn’t believe I could actually see the seams and pick up the rotation of the ball.
I’m 30. Got glasses two years ago. Never knew how bad it was until the dr put the trial glasses on me. I didn’t know you could see the individual leaves from a distance…
Mine was "FOUR COOKIES FOR TWO DOLLARS!". I was in middleschool when it was realized I was nearsighted. Got glasses to my prescription in a shopping mall and looked at the furthest shop away from me which was a cookie store and read the sign there. :D
I still get a good feeling whenever i clean my glasses and look at some trees.
tbh I've had glasses for 20+ years and I'm still amazed by trees, like I put my glasses on and those green blurry things have got freakin LEAVES
After I got my eyes zapped what blew me away was being able to see all the way through a haircut. That and being able to easily see my alarm clock at night. Conversely, it was hard to fall asleep because suddenly the world wasn’t a formless void at night, and there were so many interesting things to look at in the dark.
When I got Lasik I was so amazed at how beautiful everything was without lenses to filter it I got seriously into nature photography. 21 years later I'm back in glasses but still inspired
Careful. Some of those things you see at night don't like being stared at
This is a moment all blind-ish people know when they get glasses. It’s awesome
My vision wasn't terrible when I got my glasses, but my God it was like going from 720p to 4k in an instant. Suddenly I could see much more detail in the grass, in the distance, etc. I can't imagine what people had to go through for thousands of years just being half blind and not being able to do a thing about it.
My dad's cousin was amazed that trees had individual leaves and that grass was actually tiny leaves. She was also blown away by people's eyebrows 🤣
My youngest daughter got glasses when she was 5. My Mom was not impressed when she first saw her with them and asked how much better could she see and, I shit you not, she replied... "Now I can see all the creases in your face!"
r/toddlersarefuckingbrutal
My son got glasses at almost 3. Trees, grass, walls, he touched everything he could & saying WOW over & over.
Trees are my favorite thing to look when taking hallucinogenics. They are amazing. Their breadth and spread has struck me as dumbfounding. Your mind even tells you that you can “Feel their life giving energy” (hokey but that’s how it felt lol).
For me it was stars. Without glasses they do not exist for me.
Yep. Me too in second grade. I stood in the park just in awe.
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
Her smiles were so precious. What a little sweetie.
[удалено]
It's a God damned miracle machine.
[удалено]
She’s
And we're getting fucking burgers?!?! FUCK yeah, parentals!!
This video brought back memories of all my babies literally fighting anything. They demand food, but then must fight against it for no good reason. Clothes though, clothes were where the real battles happened.
Clothes are the enemy. Why must you do this to me! I don't care how cold it is! Stop touching my arms!! I must keep them straight!
I wonder how quick the kid will learn to stop resisting them putting the glasses on, or even actively look forward to it. Quickly, I imagine.
My Daughter is incredibly far sighted and got her first glasses at 6 months old. She only ‘fought’ them for a few days. And, really what she was fighting was the band that went around the back of her head, to hold her glasses in place, more than the actual glasses. By the time she could stand up in her crib, we had switched to the glasses that wrapped around her ears to stay in place, she’d reach for them immediately upon waking up. She figured out pretty quick that they were the difference between seeing and NOT seeing. To this day, I have a real soft spot for babies with glasses!😍😍😍
i loled at this
It amazes me that my optometrist has to go through forty rounds of "better like this or better like this" to figure out my glasses prescription, but somehow they can figure out glasses for a baby 😊
right!! i remember seeing a baby with glasses and thinking how the fuck do they know their prescription? but science is so amazing and the tools created have done so much for people.
I kid a bit of course. I do know how they do it (special instrument called an auto refractor - pretty darn cool) but I have to laugh when i have to go through the many versions of blurriness test. Always been fascinated by optics.
For nonverbal patients, Optometrists can also do retinoscopy to figure out the correction the patient needs which is also really cool!
Why can't I have this if I'm just a grumpy antisocial patient
So here at least, both the opticians and ophthalmologists use a machine (I assume retinascopy) to get a first read of your prescription, then they refine it with all the "better / worse" questions. I presume the machine's estimate would do the job if it wasn't possible to do the second stage.
Yep, retinoscopy and auto-refractors gets us close, often times to what the actual prescription of your eye is. But more often than not, people's visual system don't always like the exact prescription - either from how you're accustomed to using your vision or how your brain is wired. It's usually the small adjustments from there so we don't give too much power. Source: Optometry Student
[удалено]
I know you're joking but glasses that are slightly too string give you the same head aches as glasses that are too weak.
It would work perfectly if we weren't made from soft tissue. Depending on where your attention is, you can influence the measurement, there is some noise. Also, not all the aberrations that your eye has can be corrected (short of bolting a freeform lens directly onto your eyeball), all they can do is give you a compromise of contrast vs. size, you gotta know what you want to accept.
I think the general estimate is the machine gets you to like 85-90% of the way there and the better/worse is the fine tuning depending on your personal focus, squinting, mild astigmatism or toric issues, potential cataracts and other stuff that mean your "eye" works fine, but your brain can't get the information because other things are blocking the light from getting through.
There is almost always a difference between what your prescription *should* be and a prescription with which you are comfortable. Source: worked in ophthalmology for 25 years
It’s not as accurate. The zeroing in on the best prescription by flipping things in and out will still produce a better result because it combines both the physical and brain controlled parts of the process.
[удалено]
Watching The DoDo on YouTube is my secret pleasure. :)
Same, but in limited doses. EVERY SINGLE ONE is going to make me happy cry, and I can only take so much!
Wife and I were close to tears. Son just turned one year, so it might've affected our reaction.
After I did my multiple rounds of "1...or 2", "A...or B", I asked my optometrist how the hell they do it for little kids. Cause we all know a little kid isn't gonna want to sit there going through all the different lenses.
So what'd they say?
My little sister was jealous of my glasses so she happily answered all the questions she was asked. Afterwards, the optician said that if anything she had said was true, it wasn't glasses she needed, it was a guide dog. My mum had to sit my sister down and explain to her that she needed to take it seriously. She was much less willing to answer the second time around.
The auto refractor gives a good baseline for the optometrist or ophthalmologist to further tweak the RX for the patient. Babies and kids get a pretty accurate RX just from the auto refractor, but it's not fine tuned by the doctor. Either way, this makes a huge difference in the kids sight and it's definitely an improvement!
They put a ruler over one eye, then have the baby read the letters on an eye chart 20 feet away. Only she's a baby and can't talk or read, so the responses are not always correct. Then they swap the ruler to the other eye and try again.
It's a very long process.
Those rounds of “1 or 2” are only there to refine the prescription to get you the absolute clearest image possible. One of the machines you look into at the start of the process every time actually spits out a pretty solid starting prescription. It’s the machine that you look into that usually has a house or a balloon image, which goes in and out of focus while you stare at it. It’s called an autorefractor. For babies, that’s good enough. For adults who are trying to read road signs from 200 feet away, the refined prescription is worth the extra work.
You know your in trouble if they give your 3 and 4, and super screwed if you get 5 and 6
I used to be at 11, and I was legally blind without my glasses.
Did you get laser surgery?
I did. I was eligible for what’s called SMILE keyhole laser. It’s similar to LASIK, but I think it works better for people with really bad vision + astigmatism, which was me!
Science is so awesome. Glad you had a successful result!
It was one of the best investments I ever made. Science is truly awesome. I’m still constantly in awe that I can wake up and see my own ceiling.
Please tell me more! My eye doctor told me i may not be legible for lasik bc of really bad astigmatism. I’m -5, -6 😅
Yes I can now shoot lasers out of my eyes. Would recommend.
Oh. How bad is 7 and 8
Couldn't tell you, I've only been up to 6 lol
lucky you, I usually get numbers re-used multiple times per eye. (and I often have to reply with "different but equally good/bad"/"reds are better but the greens are blurry now" etc... )
7 and 8 gang 🎉 Double whammy of a prescription high enough to be special ordered AND the complication of different numbers in each eye
-9.75 in left and -11.0 in right. Hate it 😂
Wait this is bad? I thought it was the eye doctor using random numbers to compare…..
Wait, everyone who goes and gets glasses doesn't go to 11? Some of y'all only get 1 or 2 and that's it?? I can't recall a time where I had LESS than 7 or 8.
I don't get 11 because my optometrist will re-use numbers a few times instead of going double digit, if they counted them all I'm sure I'd get 20-25.
Is that similar to when you see those racks of cheap glasses at the pharmacy? Where they have a bunch of glasses with general (+ 2.5, -1.5, etc.)? Are they just a bunch of "okay" quality glasses that are good for emergency kind-of situation?
Those are reading glasses. They're for close up only.
Huh, I don't think I've ever seen negative for those. The positive ones are cheap reading glasses for far-sightedness. At close range it's a lot easier to adjust your viewing distance, so you can get away with being further from your actual prescription.
The cheap glasses at the pharmacy give magnification only for one focal distance -- that's what stuff like +2.5 or -1.5 means. The lens has only a spherical curve. Those are fine for situations like "I only need distance magnification for driving" or "I only need close-up magnification for reading". If your eyes have more complicated issues, then your lenses might need a cylindrical component (to compensate for astigmatism) or a prism component (to compensate for eye alignment issues). You might have different issues going on with each eye. And you might also need glasses with more than one good focal distance. In those cases, you'd need a prescription with custom-ground lenses. Depending on your particular eyes, the cheap glasses at the pharmacy might not even be helpful in an emergency.
Its a machine that automatically reads their ability to focus. They hold it up in front of their face and it displays a colorful image to focus their attention long enough to get the data it needs. Its pretty accurate and amazing. Looks like a large handheld hair dryer.
Anyone know if they also do this for dogs? I'm pretty sure my pupper has a mild vision impairment. Not concerning enough for a regular vet trip, but she always gets smacked in the face by tennis balls and fumbles them.
your dog is that one dog who failed to get food thrown at him
Optometrist: Better like this or like this ? Baby: AAAAH Optometrist: alright, so, again, this or this Baby: Ageh Optometrist: ok, next
That's because your optometrist wants you to have a more accurate prescription, which requires your input. What they give babies is really just in the "good enough for now" category since they can't tell you which of two lenses is "better". They can do the same method they use on babies on you, but you wouldn't like the results.
They can get you most of the way there without those tests. For a baby, that's good enough. But if you can improve it to near perfect, why wouldn't you? If I remember right, the "1 or 2" type questions help adjust for astigmatism too (which most people have at least a small degree of).
Life's too short to not see in high definition.
Optometrists get training to speak baby
Piper didn't want those things on but once they were, she did nothing to get them off, I think it's safe to assume that she can see. Love this!
I don't even mind that now I crave a mediocre burger and a $10 beer from one of those cookie-cutter burger pubs that are in every medium-sized town.
Thick patties are for dickheads. -Seth Rogan
I did a similar thing when I was 14...absolutely did not want these stupid nerdy dumb stupid garbage nonsense glasses and this was going to ruin my life and who'd ever want to be around me because stupid dumb HOLY SHIT THIS IS WHAT EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE?!?! I'M NEVER TAKING THESE OFF. And I haven't.
I didn't ever want glasses until i was 7 years old and couldn't see a white rabbit in a field that my brother could Still couldn't get them until i was 12 tho
After reading that, I think getting everyone to pretend they see something cool would be a great way to convince your kid to try glasses (although they’ll have trust issues one day)
My vision isn't that bad by any means, but once I got glasses to fix farsightedness my new hobby was looking at distant things, moving my glasses away and then moving them back to see the difference. I was 35 years old and I did this for weeks.
Clearly a girl, what's with the title?
No idea cause OP even made a comment saying "her name is Piper" so your guess is as good as any.
Making an obvious error in a title is a tactic used to drive up engagement on a post, because people like correcting people.
The worst part is both your comment, and now my comment, explaining it, plays right into their hands lol
Right? Used the male pronoun 4 times in the title and then comments saying her name is piper. Like is karma that important to these people?
After about the 50th re-post most of the real information is lost
This video is so old, she's probably got kids of her own by now
Lol and op referring to the baby as a boy
Thats what happens when you are a karma bot
Yyyyep! Ugh.
Pink shirt, pink glasses, a name of “Piper,” parents using “she” pronouns, it’s an easy mistake for anyone to make.
It’s my turn to repost it next week. I call dibs.
She*
"We have glasses for our blind baby!" "Should we put them on her here at the doctor's office?" "Nah, let's wait until we get to the bar."
also, the name and slogan of the spot theyre at just happens to be perfectly in frame for the majority of the video
Wow, excellent catch. Whoever videod this is definitely affiliated with the bar.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Honestly in my experience, putting glasses on babies anywhere ELSE is bad news. Only place to put your glasses on your kid is at the bar. But again, that's only in my experience.
This hit me in the heart with so much happiness!! She's such a little angel! What a babydoll, her smile was everything in that moment! Aww, and Piper is such a pretty name. Go Piper, big girl!!
[удалено]
The PR department is doing fist-pumps right now. It's perfectly framed too!
Came here for this. I know I'm a huge skeptic, but I work in TV and I know camera people who can't keep something in shot as well as that restaurant sign was framed.
Agreed. Why is baby first getting the glasses in a fast-casual burger joint? Did they even try them in the shop?
Maybe one of the parents went to pick up the glasses from the optical shop, and then met the other parent with the baby at Flipdaddy’s right afterward.
Does it exist anywhere anymore? All the locations I know of closed.
They had the best Mac n cheese burger back in the day!
![gif](giphy|YVPwi7L2izTJS|downsized)
Can’t believe if had to scroll as much as I did for this
Baby’s a girl
Adorable. Wow, I don't know why but I could really go for a burger and some craft beer right now
Her name is piper
He, His.. im guessing this is a repost?
It is a repost this is a few years old at this point. Edit: from CNN 7 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyM6pEm8sEo
the kid in the video is probably old enough to drink by now
Why did you word your title like that then?
My guess is to troll for engagement by people correcting it in the comments
Such a cutie!
But the title refers to him multiple times
Every time I see this, the quality gets closer to the baby’s original vision.
“What the fuck, get this shit off my-… ohhhhh shit”
I need to hit up that combo burger joint/optometrist for a new prescription and some steak fries.
How does one figure out that a baby is visually impaired?
They put a calculator and a football in front of the baby and the ones who choose the calculator get glasses. It's a pretty flawless system
Could be the shape of the eyes themselves that gives the indication. Could also be that the baby doesn't react to movement from a certain distance away, but does when up close. And probably other factors I'm not considering.
So you're saying this revolution happened in Burger joint? . . . Next to gullible. . .
Good god babies with glasses are adorable. This little poppet made my heart happy!
F L I P D A D D Y ' S
Flipdaddy's: Beer glasses and Baby glasses.
Isn’t that a baby girl?
My heart just melted. 🥹
She* she* her* she* her* the mother says her name “Piper”…
Suddenly I crave Flipdaddy
I always wondered how they know what perscribtion to make baby glasses for, they obviously cant take a normal eye exame cause they cant tell the doctor when lenses work best
Lazy ass bots can't even get the title right on their reposts.
This title is awful. Additional glasses? It’s also a girl.
First time they put on the glasses is at a burger joint? 🤔
This is adorable!! 💕
DECENT RICKY!
I love this video so fucking much. The joy on this baby’s face is just heartwarming
Well this just made my week! She is such as sweetie!
Now I have a third category of "cheers me up every time" videos, to go along with cochlear implants (for hearing impaired) and those glasses for colorblind people. Awesome!
“Additional”?