I have been a four eyed person for most of my life.

I had to be around 6 or 7 years old when I got my first pair of glasses, because goodness, I could not see, that was for sure. I could remember going to the eye doctor, and doing different tests, but of course, it wasn’t until my adult years when I fully realized that I had astigmatism. And it wasn’t until years after that when it made sense why I struggled to see the lines on the road on a rainy night, driving around. The thought being, “Oh…that’s how my eyes are affected.”

Why am I writing about my eye condition? Well, it’s because for the first time in maybe a decade, I finally went back to having a pair of glasses after adamantly sticking with contacts for so long (don’t get it twisted, I also have contacts, but I finally did the grown up thing, and got a back up pair of glasses to go with them). Unfortunately, my prescription had to go UP. But thankfully, that means I won’t be struggling with reading things now that I have my new contacts and glasses.

my history with glasses.

As I said, I was still in the single digits in age when I had to get my first pair of glasses. I’m almost certain that I started the whole Harry Potter frame trend, because my glasses were as round as planets. Later on, I remember having another pair of frames that were rectangular. These patterns would continue on into my high school and college years, mostly with me choosing rectangle-shaped frames over round ones in my later years.

By the time I was 21 or 22, I’d had enough of glasses, mostly because by the time I was through with the pair I had, they were always sliding down my nose, and sometimes coming off my face altogether when I bent down to pick something up. Plus, I felt like people couldn’t see past both my hair and my glasses to actually see me. So, I went with a coworker of mine at the time to an eye appointment. I got fitted for contacts, and well…I may have been there for 45 minutes because I had to prove that I could take out my contacts, and put them on before I left. Being inexperienced, I struggled.

But I’ve had so much practice now over the bulk of my twenties. I’ve taken a contact out in the middle of work, and stuck it back in (I probably should have had a bottle of solution on me, but my coworker’s eye drops will do, right?) I’ve also gone maybe two weeks with just one contact in my eye because I’ve run out of contacts for the other (don’t try this at home, kids). I feel like a veteran of eye contacts, and now at the beginning of my thirties, I’ve decided to get back to wearing glasses.

The cool thing is that glasses seem to be “back in style.” I put that in quotes because, let’s be real, they were probably always in style, I was just not getting frames that I truly desired, but ones I (or my parents) could really afford. This time, though, I’m really happy with my choice:

I have to get used to having glasses again, but I’m honestly so excited to be able to wear them at night when I’m gaming or reading before bed. It’ll be easier to not accidentally fall asleep with my contacts on when I’m not even wearing them. And it’ll be nice to have an alternative in general; maybe now I want to be seen with glasses on as another style option! You may see more and more pictures of me wearing them!

I just have to remember that I actually HAVE them, and can use them since I became so dependent on contacts alone. But this astigmatism queen is excited for this new step in her eye health journey!

What is your eyesight like? If you have 20/20 vision, what’s that like? How does it feel to not have to have any sort of eye assistance? If you’ve also got astigmatism (or any other eye issue), when did you find out, and how has it affected your daily life? Are you more of a glasses wearer or a contact lenses wearer?

Mishy 🦋🩵