I started wearing glasses around age 11 and heard maybe 2 or 3 “four eyes” the first year and nothing after that. They didn’t need to: I had ears like the handles on a loving cup and my parents kept my hair rather short, so they had plenty of other stuff to pick on.
Only if you have a low enough prescription that it doesn’t distort your face. Sadly I’ve never had one of those.
Yep, mine make my already smallish eyes even beadier…and tend to blend with my eyebrows in an odd way if I get the kind that are actually large enough to be worthwhile.
I wear contacts till I need a break.
Funny, though, the aforementioned military BCGs didn’t do me too much harm, even when I look back at pics.
Mine were absolutely as advertised.
More and more people wear glasses. A lot of us are careful to take our children to the optometrist sooner than we were, so that when our kids do need glasses they get them as soon as possible and not after years of thinking that treetops are solid balls of green (as it happened to me). A lot of people have made it clear to their kids that making fun of someone for needing glasses was Not Acceptable. A lot of literature has included characters that wore glasses, and either it was simply part of the characterization or if someone made fun of it that someone was clearly, loudly and evidently labeled a jackass. There’s people with other visual impairments who wish they could be solved by glasses (dyslexia).
And when the best mage in the country (and one of the best in the world) looks like Mel Brooks’ bespectacled cousin, what, are you going to make fun of him? Juan Tamariz may not be able to turn you into a frog but he can turn your head upside-down. Those pictures are generally pretty recent, with modern lightweight lenses: they used to be seriously coke-bottle.
That was me, most of my life so far. By adulthood I needed freakishly coke-bottle thick glasses; even the compressed glass was so thick that they beveled the bevels to create an illusion of thinner glass, I kid you not. Of course, the compressed glass doesn’t change the way the glass distorts/shrinks your eyes. I was very self-conscious about wearing glasses - they also cost a fortune because of the high prescription!
Anyway, I’m here to say that some day you will probably be released from the prison of having to mess with contact lenses all the time or wear ugly glasses. I consider myself lucky to have had terrible cataracts by my early 50s, such that IOC implants were covered by my insurer.
Now, my vision is close to perfect and, except for driving at night when I don glasses to be sure my distance vision is sharp in the dark, I don’t wear any kind of glasses.
Someday, sooner or later, you too will be free!
I started kindergarten wearing glasses. No one ever said boo. (Also, they were really, really ugly glasses IM5-yo-O. Square, translucent, flesh-tinted plastic. The kind dependents get on Air Force bases, which is where I got 'em.)
I think…maybe…kindergarten kids are just not all that judgmental, and then after that anyone starting to wear glasses was not weird because there was already one person wearing them. (This took till 3rd grade.) Other people would try them on and go, “Ooh, how do you see through these?”
I have never seen glasses as an improvement on anyone, at least the way they look. Except that they did kind of either hide or disguise my dark undereye circles.
There are over fifty films listed here. This is like the posters who reference a particular photo and provide a link to a google images page with hundreds of them.
When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, glasses were still viewed as a little nerdy, but that never bothered me, because I took “nerd” as a compliment, as did most of the kids I hung out with. I’m sure there were other kids who didn’t, but they never said much to us.
I started wearing glasses in 3rd grade, 72 years ago. I don’t recall getting ragged for them (I got ragged for being “fatty”). I was never tempted to get contacts.
[hijack]Hard of hearing people pay a big price for the attempt to make hearing aids as close to invisible as possible. For one thing, they are never quite invisible (unless you are a big-haired woman). For another, if I were hard of hearing (it’s coming), I would want people I am talking to aware so they can maybe slow down and articulate better. But the main reason is that it has kept the price of hearing aids very high, made them less effective (there is only so much electronics you can cram into a one cubic centimeter), and kept the cost and difficulty of battery replacement insanely high.
My former neighbor (a professor of audiology!) has had severe hearing loss after some childhood disease in India. He used to have a hearing aid that had receiver, electronics, battery inside a case the size of a cigarette pack that he kept in a chest pocket. Sometime, at least 20 years ago, he mentioned that he could not find a replacement, that all the manufacturers had gone the “hidden” route. If anyone knew the industry, it was he. [/hijack]
Now, these spectacles do still have a stigma associated with them.
Sorry, if there’d been a direct link to the film I would have included it. The movie was “The Boy With Glasses” and is the 12th film listed on the left column.
I really could’ve done with Harry Potter as being the pop culture hero of my generation when I got my glasses. Unfortunately I was two decades too early for that, and was instead stuck with this pathetic loser.
Yes, the frames covered by IBM insurance were a real parade of ugly. Flesh-colored, blue, burgundy. And not during a time when those colors were trendy. The worst was when they broke and glue didn’t hold them. I did get laughed at sporting broken glasses held together with white tape. :o
I was pleasantly surprised when my father said we could get contacts when I was 14.
And they were equally dorky 50 years ago.
More like stigmata.
Yes. Although there was less choice in frame that far back.
Rates of near-sightedness have approximately doubed in the last fifty years, so glasses are more common.
Monocles have always been cool, right?