People with really bad vision: Do you ever think how lucky you are?

Are you high?

I often think about how in the hell I would survive without them. My prescription is -6.00. I'm worthless without them. Do you think eyes deteriorate faster when they are being aided by glasses?

Lucky is the opposite of what I would consider my terrible vision. Also, you should start less threads

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For most of human existence, I would have been basically blind.

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I have thought about this kind of thing recently...during the days when you had to hunt to survive, anyone who could not see well would have just starved to death...

of course, that was the time before modern dentistry, so most would have died from a simple abscessed tooth or something like that anyway...

wrong board; your threads belong on the SEC Off-Topic forum

I realize how lucky I am. I am legally blind without contacts or glasses.

Truthfully, in the back of my mind I fear the day were corrective contacts or lenses may not do me any good.

Yeah, I've pictured myself in medievel times as a blind outcast with some kind of menial job. Without glasses/contacts I can't focus beyond a 6".
Vision correction is a life changer. I have a technical job that relies on sight.

Not really..

This is gonna sound weird, but I don't really get how someone has bad vision.

Like I think it's a thing you have to experience. I have good eyesight so I just don't understand how someone can't read that sign, or can't distinguish those small objects from each other or whatever it is.

Oh man. I've been thinking about this all the time now that I'm pretty much 20/20 after LASIK (where beforehand, I was off the scale: -6.50 diopters for both eyes, couldn't even read the letter chart at all).
I couldn't see past 3 inches from my nose. I'd have a mini-crisis if I knocked my glasses off my nightstand and couldn't find them.
Guess I would've had to go "Chinese" if I never had glasses? (Only way to see without glasses was to pull the side of your eye to make it narrower...!)