Tuesday, 17 April 2012

RE: Littleradge - Glasses

This is my response to Littleradge's video, I Broke My Glasses.

In his video he talks about how people who wear glasses have been stereotyped as nerds, and how because of that, some people wear glasses without a prescription in them because apparently, being a nerd is the 'in' thing. Now don't get me wrong, I love my glasses and I love being nerdy, but really I don't think glasses and nerdiness are particularly related.
There are so many different opinions on wearing fake glasses flying around in the comments that I'm not even going to attempt to justify any of them. I'm going to stick to my own self analysis for now, and maybe build on other people later.
I wear glasses. I have done for three years now, and I still have mixed opinions on them. On one hand, they help me see. I can barely see my hand in front of my face without them, and without them I generally feel like I'm half naked, but sometimes I do like to take them off. This is partly because I've been told by my optician that if I rely too much on my glasses my eyes will gradually get weaker, which is already happening, and has happened a lot over the past three years. But then sometimes I just don't feel like wearing them, soI take them off for a while. This is really impractical in lessons, but when I'm walking around without them I start to feel really self conscious, so really I just don't wear them very much at home, unless I'm watching TV or something where I really do need to be able to see or I'll get a headache.
It's nice to have a change sometimes, though. When I first got glasses, I had two pairs with different arms but similar frames. I liked the ability to choose which ones I wanted to wear, becuase as a person who occasionally has the mind of a small child, I enjoy variety. Now I have one pair of glasses which were really shockingly expensive, and a pair of prescription sunglasses which are actually a prescription behind what I need, but the last time when I needed the prescription changed on my glasses, I needed something to walk around town in while they changed the lenses so I wouldn't accidentally stand on a small child or something. Since then I still haven't taken my sunglasses to get the lenses changed, but I probably will with my next prescription.
My aviators offer a nice substitute should I ever get bored of my regular glasses, but they're only really useful outside, otherwise I do look ridiculous. I have a pair of 3D glasses with the lenses popped out, and I can't really see myself when I wear them, but from what I can see, I don't suit them. I don't really think many people suit 3D glasses frames, because they just look stupid. If you don't need glasses, why would you want to announce to the world that you're visually impared on some level? You're not really even doing that, you just look ridiculous. They are not jewelery for the face, and they shouldn't be just an accessory. As a person who needs them to see, I just don't like the fact that people wear them because they think it makes them look nerdy. Nerds would not wear those glasses to look nerdy, because it kind of defeats the point.
I'm getting a little tired of needing my glasses. As soon as Specsavers let's me I'll try contacts, just for a change, and then at 18 I'll have laser eye surgery. The idea of the surgery really creeps me out, and I really do not want the procedure, but I'd like to be able to see. I know that if I did have it done, I'd miss my glasses, and so really that's the only time I think it's okay to have fake glasses. Michael Buckley wears his old glasses with clear or no lenses because that's his image, but he's had LASIK eye surgery and can see perfectly. I think that's what I would do - keep a pair of glasses with clear lenses, but even that seems a little sad to me, because it's not as if I'm a YouTuber or even minorly popular. If I got rid of my glasses, I don't think anyone would mind, and if I tried wearing fake ones, it seems pointless to me, even though I might miss them.
I'm clearly still undecided on this. I'll get back to you.

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