# Etched into my skull... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339 "2005-02-28T20:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/1 "2005-02-28T20:51:38Z")
I’ve been wearing glasses since the third grade. I was the first kid to get them in my class. I’ve never really thought about the physical effect they’ve had on me until recently. I had a headache and took off my glasses to rub my temples. As I did, I noticed that all the years of wearing glasses and growing into them has left grooves in my skull where the “arms” of the frames run along my head. It sort of creeps me out. A thousand years from now, a forensic specialist might show my skull to the students and point out the grooves, “See, back then they had to hang metal and plastic gadgets from their ears and nose to see better instead of just genetically manipulating their children to have proper vision. What a bunch of rubes.” Anybody else “disfigured” by their glasses or other accoutrements? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/2 "2005-02-28T20:56:07Z")
Sweetheart, I have been wearing contacts for three years now and I still have faint outlines of those lovely grooves. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/3 "2005-02-28T21:20:20Z")
I’ve been wearing glasses for 40 years. I’ve avoided having the indentations in the sides of my skull because for years I’ve been getting frames where the arms pivot outward, on springs. That seems to do the trick. They don’t press to your head, they sit there, like they’re supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/4 "2005-02-28T21:27:31Z")
I think it depends on the size/shape of your head, too, because I’ve had that kind since…17? 12 years? And I still have those indentations. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/5 "2005-02-28T21:35:15Z")
Eyeglass indentations? Absolutely. They’re convenient, too. I use them as guidelines as to where to stop shaving. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/6 "2005-02-28T22:00:36Z")
I developed nearsightednes _and_ boobs at a tender age, so not only do I have grooves in my skull, I have grooves in my shoulders. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/7 "2005-02-28T23:21:11Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > I developed nearsightednes _and_ boobs at a tender age, so not only do I have grooves in my skull, I have grooves in my shoulders. I hadn’t thought of that. But I will now. A lot. I guess I’m lucky that years of wearing jockey shorts didn’t leave any permanent reminders… ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etched-into-my-skull/292339/8 "2005-02-28T23:25:31Z")
Damn! I never noticed that before! In other words - yes, I gave the groove. I did notice the shoulder groove though, compliments of a 36B at age 10 which never really stopped growing. I wonder if there’s some connection. I got my first bra and my first glasses in the same month 😃