With and without his -16 glasses

When your friend let you try his extremely powerful eyeglasses and you go to the restroom just to play with them... He has been blind 🦯 for a couple of minutes.

Minus 17

Pessoas gostosas tem miopia e problema na coluna...

I have a question for my fellow blind/visually impaired/people with low vision. Our vision is -7, stopped dropping in about 2021, and hopefully would stay that way. For a bit of background, it was a birth trauma, our vision began dropping since we were 1 and began rapidly dropping since we were about 5, basically we don't remember what it's like to be without glasses. And we recently came to a realization that we've never had any support groups or met people in a similar situation as us, and we have never been given any accessibility tools other than glasses. We've basically always dealt with it alone. It was literally yesterday when we found out that we found out we could see white on black better, which improved our ability to read and watch videos online. My question is: is that bad? I know that the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities are awesome, have whole support groups and the community itself, have a whole very cool language developed. We went through all that alone as kids, were not able to talk about it with people who could understand and give advice, and were under a constant genuine threat of going blind. And, to be honest, doctors are not exactly your best buddies with this. I was wondering if that could have been traumatizing.

Was that bad? Should be start looking for a community with people like us?

-host

Astigmatism, Myopia and Hyperopia

[pt: Astigmatism, Myopia and Hyperopia]

2/3 requested by @belinhagamer999

exclusive to people with these conditions

transx/id and radqueer can fuck off

left: astigmatism, a flag for those with astigmatism, a common occurrence in the eye where there is an imperfect curvature causing both blurred distance and near vision, the front surface or the lense inside the eye have mismatched curves.

middle: myopia, a flag for those with myopia aka nearsightedness, another common condition in the eye where objects and things close to you seem clear while things at a distance will appear blurry, caused by light refracting incorrectly in the eye.

right: hyperopia, a flag for those with hyperopia aka farsightedness, the opposite of myopia, a common condition where objects and things close by appear blurry but at a distance will appear clearer, also caused by incorrect light refraction in the eye.

included the last one because im farsighted myself.

also tagging @your-fave-is-crippled and @cpunkwitch

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“When in Doubt” by Sandra Cisneros “When in doubt, Wear faux leopard. “When in doubt, Err on the side of generosity. “When in doubt, Greet everyone as you would the Buddha. “When in doubt, Collect blessings from those who own nothing. “When in doubt, Absorb biographies to avoid life’s major mistakes. “When in doubt, Make life’s major mistakes. “When in doubt, Pay attention to the vendor shouting ‘Diooooos,’ Even when you find out he was only shouting, ‘Gaaaaas.’ “When in doubt, Carry a handkerchief and a fan. “When in doubt, Thank everyone. Twice. “When in doubt, Heed the clouds. “When in doubt, Sleep on it. “When in doubt, Treat all sentient and insentient beings as kin. “When in doubt, Forgive us our myopia As we forgive those who are myopic against us. “When in doubt, Unreel your grief to a tree. “When in doubt, Remember this. We are all on a Caucus-race. “There is no start. No finish. Everyone wins.”

Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9780593534823

Just thinking how lucky this guy is… he has to wear every single day those coke bottles glasses 👓 OMFG…

My Very Nearsighted/Myopic California Friend

Me. Coke bottle glasses 🤓 extremely miopic near sighted guy from India -27 in both eyes

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American Optometric Association PSA

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