I know its been asked before, and it seems the bottom line is always "if you want to, then wear them all the time, if not, then don't" but I'm just curious to see the responses to my situation.

after a good 10 yrs or so since I last had glasses, finally went back to the vision place and got a pair. At the very beginning after looking at the first chart he projected on the wall he said 'your at about 2200' but I guess that had to be a rough estimate (not that I know what 2200 means anyway). Somehow I wound up with nothing specific on how bad my vision was, and certainly don't remember what the eye doctor said 11yrs ago or whatever it was.

I basically asked him "so what, should I only wear glasses for driving and things like that?", and he said it would make such a big difference that I'll probably want to wear them all the time, but since my up close is pretty good, take them off for working on the computer or reading.

it just seems annoying to carry the stupid case around and constantly take them on and off, especially knowing me I'll wind up scratching or breaking them fast that way. I originally got them just because I knew I wouldn't be able to pass the drivers test without them (when I first moved to FL I passed it by cheating, borrowed my sisters prescription glasses which actually did help my vision a bit, and probably barely made it. The guy hesitated when I had trouble with the last line then
finally said 'close enough. Slightly ashamed to admit that, lol) but now I'm thinking I might just wear them all the time. The best comparison I can think of is glasses on=like watching HD DVD, glasses off=1983 VHS tape >_<

guess I should just wear them all the time then? I'm also slightly curious, those people you know that you never see without glasses, do they just see nothing but blurs without them? Or are they probably close to vision like mine?

What other people see or can't see depends on their degree of impairment, and type. Me, I'm like you more or less Mine are bad enough I need them for anything past 2 feet. So yeah I wear them all the time. But people with perfect eyes will see just as well as we do with glasses... with the addition of having far better peripheral vision as the glasses are only in front of you.

But yeah... if you KNOW they are near sighted the further the more blurred. But near sighted people are more likely to wear their glasses. We can't see anything at a distance clearly... far sighted people have trouble with just the closer stuff.


I've been wearing mine since I was like 10 years old... I feed odd without them... besides the not seeing anything clearly part.

I think you mean 20/200. That means that you see at 20 feet what someone with "perfect vision" can see at 200 feet. That's not great.

Did you get a vision prescription? If so, get it filled. You can wear the glasses all the time. Most doctors will say to take glasses off for close-up work just because you don't need them for that. But I don't. It creates headaches, if you do.