sometimes when i neglect my blog for a while, i feel like the follow-up entry should be extra special, which just causes me to delay posting even further. i'm not sure why i feel this type of pressure, since my readership consists of about.. no one.
i recently had an eye appointment. to put this in perspective, i would much rather go to the dentist (except for now, because i know i need to have my wisdom teeth removed, but i am too much of a pussy to want this to happen). i started realizing i was going blind when i was about ten. people always seemed to be able to read things that i could not. in order to avoid having to wear glasses, i faked having adequate vision for quite some time. then at school they had a mandatory eye exam, and the jig was up. my mother accompanied me to the eye-doctor and they asked me to read the smallest line i could see clearly, and i replied with something along the lines of, "E." and i've worn contacts ever since.
a few years later i got some back-up glasses, reserved for mornings and nights and those unfortunate times i forgot to order contacts before running out. i have kept the same pair since i was, like, fourteen. maybe fifteen. i know the prescription is off, but compared to my natural blindness, it is still pretty clear. the only reason i am interested in getting a new pair is because one of the ear hangers (official title) has been broken off and super-glued back on twice, and that is no way to live.
after making the doctor flip back and forth between lenses more times than he probably would have liked to, he gave me a new prescription. i feel like the different lens options are trick questions, or he knows which lens is supposed to be clearer, and i am going to choose the wrong one. i honestly get a hint of test anxiety before eye exams. maybe i have this issue because i am not one for subtlety. apparently my prescription has changed considerably over the past year. i hope this trend does not continue.
after browsing over the selection, there was only one frame i really had feelings for. i put it on, and the "optician," as she referred to herself several times said, "those are cute... but they're a little big." and i said, "i know, that is why they are cute." she went on to tell me that because of the magnification of my prescription, i could wind up with having some rather thick lenses in these bad boys. then she attempted to sucker me into choosing a smaller frame, but the heart knows what it wants. i hardly even wear my glasses, anyway, and if i'm going to wear them, i am going to like the grandfatherly frame on my face. even if my lenses are going to be half an inch thick, which i pray is an exaggeration.
this (sort of) brings me to a point i am meaning to make: it is so fucking annoying when people wear glasses for decorative purposes. i, first of all, do not understand the appeal to wearing glasses without a prescription. does it make the wearer feel smarter? does it simply serve to add to your hipster street cred? i just don't know.
but ultimately, poor vision is a handicap. would you wear a prosthetic hand over your already perfectly normal, functioning hand? no. well, maybe. but that would be considered to be in poor taste. don't get me wrong: i am totally down with stylish eyewear, okay? just like i support realisitic looking prosthetics, but when you slap those non-functional glasses on your face, it's a) retarded and b) a little disrespectful.
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Stephanie...Stephanie...it's clear that people just want to wear glasses to be more like you.
And honestly, can you blame them?
No but seriously, it's quite rude. Some of us are really blind, and glasses are highly annoying at times, like when you look down and they fall off your face, or you are trying to lay down, and they jam into your face...or they fog up, and you look like a total douche. Or you can't really wear them swimming, but then you're blind, and maybe a crocodile comes up to you, but guess what? You can't tell if it's plastic or real. It's a real legit disability. Especially considering I have developed a horrible allergy/annoyance to contacts. I can't even wear sunglasses. What am I supposed to do? Huh?
In conclusion, I hear ya bitch.
Loveeeee.
Everytime I finally get off my ass(definitely not literally, in this case) and catch up with your latest blogs....it's like....it's like....watching your favorite movie after not having seen it in a year. Eating your favorite dessert after losing 30 lbs. Getting laid after being a dirty island castaway for a few years. Except I don't have to shower after reading the blogs. Mostly.
Also, I happen to know a girl who suffers from big knockers syndrome, and will be happy to pass along the tip about the not ugly bras.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
love~
As someone who also could not function at all without some sort of optical aid, I also take offense when people wear fake glasses for aesthetic purposes.
Glasses are not cool. They get in the way and pretty much ruin everything. As soon as I was able to get contacts in the 7th grade I was all over that shit, and I never went back unless forced.
Your prosthetic hand analogy was very well thought out, but the first thing I thought of was someone taping their eyes back to look like they had down's syndrome just because all the indie kids were doing it.
Talk about poor taste.
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