How old were you when you first started wearing glasses?

I was forty and it was a horrible shock for me. I was so upset but now like my glasses as they hide the bags under my eyes

I started using them last year at the age of 25. But I use them only while working on the PC. I am an IT person and so, spend way too much time glued to my computer. So I wear my specs, just so my power does not increase. I have minimum eye power and can do without glasses.

I was pretty early to wear glasses. I had to strain my eyes off from their sockets to read the letters written on the blackboard. maybe I was 10 or 11 that time. Like you i had to deal with that embarrassment.

Now my friends wouldn't imagine it would be me sans the glasses.

Im not exactly sure when i started wearing glasses. I think around 10-12 yrs. I also didnt wear them at school because of being picked on. I used to put them on before leaving the house then take them off before reaching the school. Visa versa for on the way home. One day after going home for lunch i accidently returned to school with the glasses on. Right away a boy saw me and started calling me four eyes. I just wore them after that because the whole school knew shortly after that. How word travels fast.

I only discovered that I am short sighted when I was in high school. The frequent bout of headaches was the warning that I did not heed not until I went to see a specialist and he confirmed that the cause of my headaches was my eyesight and I needed to wear glasses.

I was about 10 years old when I started wearing glasses. The same thing happened to me. We used to have annual eye check ups at our school (as well as hearing check ups) and the nurse told me I needed glasses. It didn't come as a big shocker to me, especially since I was the only one who couldn't see the board i class. I wasn't upset. I just lived with it.

I was in play school, that's what we used to call preschool. My eyes were so bad that the world was a blur and nobody knew. I thought it was normal, being a child with no frame of reference. I don't remember ever not wearing glasses!

I had lasik a few years ago and now only wear glasses when I'm driving, although I can see well enough if I were to lose them.

My eyes started to go when i turned about 40 and i think that i started wearing glasses when i was about 42 years old

I was 11 was told I had a damaged optic nerve not been told that after that but I still have to wear the darn things and contacts ar a no for me!

hi Shar I was about the age you were when I found out that I needed glasses. This was in the early thirties, and the glasses'for kids were all round lens like owl eyes.I got teased
dreadfully, and would take them off, and put them in my pocket.I hated to be called four eyes and owl eyes. but finally as I got into my teens they began to make other shaped lens and prettier frames so that the glasses did not look ugly. I then realized that with them I had no problem seeing anything, while without I would bump into things, trip over things. I began to learn to like my glasses then.so I have been wearing glasses now for many years. The ones I have now have blue frames which bring out my blue green eyes and my silver hair. so am told they look really good on me. thats a compliment worth hearing. he he.