Young People Who Wear Reading Glasses - Do you get embarrassed?

Yeah, that's why I wear them, to avoid the headaches. I think I will start wearing them to work because even though I don't really have to read at work, I am looking at forms. Sometimes I get bad eye strain headaches and then it ruins the whole night or most of it. I used to have to wear glasses all the time, and I just didn't do good with it either. But part of my problem is that I have one good eye, so with glasses, it narrowed my field of vision too much because of the frames. If the glasses could wrap around my head, I could keep my 135 degree field of vision and see clearly too.

I guess because people associate reading glasses with old people. I used to wear coke bottle lens as a kid. I'm actually much happier now that I only wear reading glasses, not glasses all the time. My family is the type who wants to see perfection. And a defect like wearing glasses isn't a good thing in their eyes.

I only tend to get embarrassed if I forgot my reading glasses at a restaurant. Because everytime it ends up that I will have to ask some old person to borrow theirs. The really bad thing is when I'll borrow them from someone older, and they aren't strong enough! When I was in high school, none of my reading glasses were really all that cute. I am a very frugal person, so I'd buy the 3 for $10 kind. The ones I got today look very cute, but were $20. I'll have to take a photo of them, they're greenish blue, don't have the little nose pieces, and are somewhat thick framed, but very stylish. They almost just look like how regular glasses look now. But I'll only wear them when reading. Unfortunately, the cute ones like that don't come in higher powers. But they're good enough for just reading 12 or 14 point font. For fine print, I'll need something else.

I'm jealous. I just got my eyes check last week and have been told that just the lenses (at wholesale price as a friend of mine imports Rosenstock lenses from Germany) are going to cost me about $160.00 per lens. Add to this the cost of cutting them to my prescription it will be pretty close to $400 for a pair. Fortunately I don't have to buy the frames because my friend also imports them and she is giving them to me. I said I would pay but she said it wasn't necessary because the model I chose is no longer considered in mode now so she probably wouldn't sell them anyway.

Wow! That's expensive. I wanted to see about getting those colored glasses for dyslexia before, and it's about the same price, maybe more but I don't know the cost of frames. My friend that has them said hers are usually $500 to $800. But the visit to the eye doctors that can do those is the expensive part, apparently costing around the same as the glasses! I want to get a regular eye exam again sometime. But I'm somewhat afraid and also kind of afraid of the cost.

I don't know why everything has to be so small. I guess to save paper and space. On my computer, it's all pretty big since I have a 19" monitor. At one point, I had a 22" monitor. Was nice until it stopped working.