This was Cashel’s response to what it feels like to have glasses. Cashel just got glasses. Uhm … I need a picture of Cashel in glasses IMMEDIATELY.
I remember when I first got glasses. In 5th grade. My first glasses had thin silver rims and were vaguely Oscar Goldman-ish. I will never forget being driven home after first getting the glasses – and I remember we were driving by Old Mountain Field – and I was completely blown away by how the trees no longer looked like green BLURS. I was amazed at how I could see individual leaves. I had thought that EVERYBODY saw trees as vague green blurs!
So yes, Cashel, everything DID look 3-D!
My heart cracks at the thought of him in glasses. Can’t wait to see him again. Where we can commiserate on our vision issues.
Oh yes, glasses make such a difference. I was in 3rd grade when I got mine, and it was a revelation to be able to see things from far off. I could read signs, and see the chalkboard clearly from the back of the room!
I had that same experience. Trees have individual leaves! Who knew!
My first glasses were big rounded-off square frames by Pierre Cardin (oooooo!) that practically covered my whole face. Visionwear, c. 1979. Haaaaaarrible.
i had the individual leaves thing, too! pretty much every year, when i got new glasses, starting in first grade.
‘everything looks 3-D’ haha, it’s true!
got mine in kindergarten/preschool. that was the first time i ever say the creases in my hands, the shawdows powerlines make and clouds. Oh, and the first time I ever saw freckles on my mom’s face. I’d heard her talk about them before, but I’d never seen them. :)
And my sister loves to torture me with the first time I saw the crases. I swore my hand was cut up.
Never seen the individual leaves on trees. The thing I really want to see is spiderwebs though. I walk thru them occasionally but I’ve never seen one.
My first comment must have thrilled my mom – “boy, do you look old!” Never saw the wrinkles before.
That’s probably why I prefer to take my glasses off now – I look DECADES younger!
My vision went to poo during the summer between third and fourth grade, apparently. My first glasses were your basic Drew Carey jobs (this was 1970). My oldest got his first pair of glasses, Power Rangers wire-frames :-), over the winter. So far he uses them only for reading.
my eyes went to hell when I went through puberty. Something with hormones I guess or the rest of me grew and my corneas didn’t.
we all had to have these screening tests in 7th grade – scoliosis, and hearing, and vision. I failed the vision one. I had never known – my eyes went bad so slowly that I never realized. And I sat in the front row in classrooms so not being able to see the chalkboard wasn’t an issue.
my first pair of glasses – this would have been like 1983 – oh, my gosh. The 80s were a bad fashion decade in so many ways and eyewear was no exception. Big huge squared off frames, not unlike Dustin Hoffman’s “Tootsie” character. I shudder to think of it. (Also – we were on my dad’s insurance and there were only a set group of frames it would pay for).
that, coupled with my braces, my wild curly hair, and the fact that I had just completed a growth spurt meant that I was like the ugly duckling. In fact, I was, well into college.
(Some people would say I’ve never grown out of it, too.)
at least now I can pick my frames better. (No laser surgery for me. You’re not gettin’ close to my eyes with that thing, Dr. Frankenstein…)
I had the same moment of astonished clarity when I went to school my first morning as a glasses-wearer and stopped dead in my tracks starting at the back of a classmate’s head amazed that I could see all the little hairs individually. Shock! I still try to have that same wonderment even though I’ve been in contacts for ten years (omg) now.
i am glad to read other peoples tales on starting to wear glasses as i have only until to day needed them for driving however after a routine eye test i left the opticians with distance and reading glasses at the age of 39 i was some what shocked however i could not believe how much my eye sight had changed in 2years since my last test from now on i will keep to a regular 1 year check up