# Yesterday, I met an infant who was wearing glasses. How does that work?

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**Created:** [May 4, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-i-met-an-infant-who-was-wearing-glasses-how-does-that-work/833472 "2019-05-04T17:14:44Z")\
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> [@doreen](#):
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> Nope- treating amblyopia may involve glasses and patching the eye but it’s not either/or. The glasses and the patch serve different functions - I had glasses ( to correct the vision in my “bad” eye ) and an patch ( to force me to use my “bad eye”) A child wouldn’t be given glasses because he tore the eyepatch off - I think atropine drops would substitute for the patch, as it is used to blur the vision in the “good eye”.

Yep. My son wears glasses because his vision needs correction in general, and an eyepatch to strengthen a particular eye.

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**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-i-met-an-infant-who-was-wearing-glasses-how-does-that-work/833472/23 "2019-05-06T19:14:16Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> “THE TREE! IT’S GOT LEAVES! One leaf, one leaf, one leaf, one leaf…” (would-later-be-Nava, age 10)

> [@Yllaria](#):
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> This must say something about the human condition. Although the way my son described it, “I looked out and there were all these trees!”

They really are beautiful. I think a lot of people don’t notice; but being able to see them properly all of a sudden for the first time will really knock it into your head.

– I knew the tree had lots of leaves, I could see them fine one by one if I put my face close enough to a branch, which I was lucky enough to have plenty of opportunity to do. But seeing them all at once in focus like that was truly amazing.

Still kind of is, when I pause to do so.

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