[a point of view is shown of a car being driven on a road at night]

[a character is shown taking off their glasses, smiling]

[every light on the road has now become distorted and blinding]

[the character rages, their eyes blinded by light]

https://thebad.website/comic/astigmatism

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    27·
    23 days ago

    I didn’t realise the bottom image wasn’t what everyone experienced at night until I got corrective lenses last year

    • Gust@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      Wait what? I was born with 20/15 vision, to the point that optometrists basically tell me to fuck off when I go in and tell them my vision is getting worse and I want to correct it. The bottom picture is how night driving has looked my entire life though

      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
        8·
        23 days ago

        Oh damn yeah that’s pretty similar to me except my optometrists were always really nice. I started wearing glasses a decade ago when my vision was still perfectly good enough to get by without glasses but I wore them anyway just since I liked things being even just a bit clearer.

        You should maybe find a different optometrist and get checked for astigmatism because you can get astigmatism corrective glasses for night driving even if you have otherwise perfect vision

        • Gust@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          23 days ago

          I didn’t know that was a thing. I’m about as ignorant as it gets when it comes to eye health or corrective lenses or similar, as the lucky operator of two eyes that can read things from further away than most other eyes. Or at least, they could when I was younger, haha. I know it’s a “world’s smallest violin” situation, but it’s upsetting to go to the optometrist because my vision is getting worse and be told “it’s still better than average, I can’t help you.” I did not bring up the night driving thing though, as I just assumed that’s what lights through glass at night looked like to everybody before I saw this post

        • Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.caEnglish
          3·
          23 days ago

          Is it a myth that wearing glasses makes your eyesight degrade faster? Something about making them reliant on the lenses and thus they become weaker?

          • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
            2·
            23 days ago

            I have no sources to back this up but I’d say it’s a myth but with a tiny bit of misunderstood truth to it. When I got my lenses for astigmatism, it took a while to get used to them and not feel disoriented and I feel like its because my eyes had been so used to trying to work with the defect that it confused them when suddenly it was corrected.

            It took a month or so for my eyes to stop trying to correct the astigmatism on their own, but now if I switch back to my old lenses, the astigmatism is way worse because my eyes/brain aren’t applying their own corrections to it so it’s as if my eyes did get worse. So it’s sorta true but not really