I have had to wear glasses since I was 8 how about you?

I had a friend at school that had a lazy eye and he had to wear a patch over one eye until the other eye was strong and he never had to wear glasses after that. He went through a lot of teasing but was the best pirate we had. :)

Your friend had to wear the patch to strengthen a weak eye muscle - not to improve his vision. I know - I had to wear one a long time ago - they were trying to avoid doing surgery on my eye muscle - I developed a "lazy eye" (it turned towards my nose) when I was about 9. Unfortunately for me, it didn't work and I had to have the surgery anyway - when I was in 5th grade. To this day (some 40 years later), I will NEVER forget the first time I could take the bandage off and actually LOOK at my eye after the surgery. Remember now, I was about 10 at the time lol....it looked like one of those bloodshot monster eyes on a Halloween mask....I took one look and let out a scream so loud my mom thought someone was killing me lol. And to get back to the question the topic starter asked....I have been wearing glasses since I was 4 - have always had (and will have) bad eyes. My astigmatism is too bad for me to be a canidate for the laser procedure some have mention. Can get around without my glasses (in the house) - but could not function without them. Wore contacts for about 7 years (13-20) but can't afford them any more. Matter of fact, am waiting to get my tax refund check so I can get a new pair of glasses - the ones I have now are 8 years old.

I hear ya, I used to do everything to break my glasses but they always got me more and eventually an unbreakable pair that I spent a lot of time trying to break. :)

See that sounds like teasing that friends do so it's not so bad. No one ever called me Mr. Genius :)

then, i'd be the first, mr.genius :)

Wearing glasses from that young has got to be a tough for a little girl or boy. Just keeping them on would be a challange. I have often thought of getting laser correction, it would certainly be a very strange experience not to wake up and be able to see without glasses. Pretty cool.

I remember when the eye guy came to our school to give us each an eye exam. I tried to memorize the chart so they wouldn't know I couldn't see. I even let it affect my grades because I wasn't about to tell anyone I couldn't see.

I like the benefit of seeing but don't care for the glasses, except when they are my sunglasses and I am fishing. Then I don't mind so much. I basically have my glasses back on my face before I even get my eyes open in the morning. It's not good to try and go without them you might walk into a wall.

I tried the contacts and found they just made my eyes too dry and I had to take them out. I may try them again this summer because they now how drops for your eyes that actually help. I would love to be able to wear sunglasses that look good and protect the eyes while fishing.

I don't know what I would do without my glasses now. I did break them a few years ago and was without them for 10 days and that was a real pain. I had to even take that time of work because I couldn't see. Now I keep a couple of pair just incase anything happens. :) Strange how we grew up being called 4 eyes but today people just buy frames to wear so they look intelligent.

I appreciate the fact that glasses allow me to see so much more than I would without them but they are a bit of a pain to keep clean. Right now I have two pair of glasses, well actually three pair. I have an old pair that work well for reading my computer screen. Another pair for everything else and one pair that are polarized sunglasses so I can go fishing.

Ouch, that's an aweful way to have to start wearing glasses.

Well stop looking so smart. :)

I think it sucks when moms buy ugly glasses. I would be in quite a fix without my glasses but I could survive, I would just have to be really close to everything I want to see. :)