#correctional lenses

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[mari-vargas]

Hello everyone, I have something I feel the need to talk about.

But first, a question: if you saw someone wearing glasses or someone told you they were wearing contacts would you ask them if they had considered not wearing them anymore?

For the most part the answer to this would be no. Sure there’s surgery but that’s not an option for everyone. Also sometimes your prescription changes and you end up not needing glasses anymore or maybe you need a stronger correction. But most people would not suggest a person permanently stops using what they need to see.

Why then do people, upon learning I take a daily medicine for ADHD (and now more recently also one for anxiety), ask me “Have you considered getting off of the medication?” I’ve also been asked “How do you feel about being on a medication that changes your personality?” and countless other questions along the same veins.

Well, gee, HAVE I considered not needing to be medicated? Here’s the thing: I am fully aware of the state of my self when I am unmedicated—not in the moment of course, that’s sort of the point, but rather due to being able to tell the difference when I AM medicated. My prescription changes sometimes as new demands on my life change my ability to manage my self, and who knows maybe someday the prescription will lower but the fact of the matter is that in the here and now it is in fact DANGEROUS for at least my well-being for me to not be medicated.

Then there’s the suggestion that my medications change my personality. I’ll be honest—I was supremely baffled when I was first asked this. Especially because the person asking hadn’t ever seen me truly unmedicated: he’d essentially seen me medicated or passing out on his couch because I sleep better hearing my friends’ voices. Point being he had never seen me before I had already been diagnosed and being treated for ADHD for years. So how had he drawn that particular conclusion? I’m still not really sure but I decided to set aside my utter confusion and instead consider if there was a difference in my personality. The answer, obviously, is no there’s not. However there might be a difference in my perceived personality maybe but anyone who knew me both before and after I was diagnosed had already gotten past my struggles with expressing my self and had seen my core personality—me finally being able to express myself hadn’t changed it, it was just more visible to the wider world.

My medications help me to function, keep up with, and understand the world around me—just the same as my correctional lenses do. And yet I am heckled for my medications far more often than the fact that I use glasses to see.

[femmedefandom]

shawn spencer's true superpower is not psychic abilities, eidetic memory, or a remarkable level of shamelessness…it’s his crazy good “zoom and enhance” eyesight. like I would love to know if he’s the dude from those corny “optometrists hate him!” style ads or if he’s just insanely farsighted

[jonphaedrus]

been seeing a lot of posts about how glasses (and the way society acts about normalized glasses/vision correction) are great examples of how important accessibility tech for disabilities—and effective monetary coverage for those things—is. took a walk today without my glasses and remembered all over again that those posts are right and the normalization of glasses as accessibility tech, as fashion, as something people just "have" is essential and very good but also we should never forget they are actually correcting for a disability.

if you need glasses—even if your vision is fine without them, but especially if your vision is really significantly impaired without them—there's no piece of advice i wish people talked about more often than the fact that you should always, always always, have a contingency plan of how to get around without your glasses. you should know how to change the accessibility settings to make your phone or computer usable, even if you don't have your glasses on while you're doing it. if your vision is significantly impaired enough without your glasses that you wouldn't feel safe moving around outside of the home, you should look into getting, and learning to use, a tactile cane. you should know how to read the tactile labelling for elevators and signs and recognize where you are without being able to read street signs. you should keep the stuff to repair your glasses in your bag/purse/suitcase, you should know how to navigate your home, feed yourself, clean yourself, and find and ask for help without your glasses.

my vision was already significantly impaired before i broke my glasses in 2018, but i "technically" see 20/20 with my correct scrip and i hadn't taken the time to be proactive with accessibility tech on my phone or my laptop. i could get around without them using a tactile cane and backup sunglasses and having walked around the city without them, but i couldn't check my email, grade my papers, play games with my friends, or call my husband for help. i had to crash-course learn all of that in less than a week.

making use of accessibility technology to make things easier to use without your glasses can make it easier to use with them on, too. reducing eye strain and headaches because the font is of a size that's more readable or you have twilight cutting your blue light or you have tinted lenses that help fix glare from fluorescent lights or the sun, redoing the colors on a game to be easier to see or turning off significant shadows, marking buttons on your remotes or your keyboards or your light switches, being able to find food in your kitchen without having to check labels, all of that?? there's nothing wrong with that. you should learn to do it.

in a worst-case scenario, where you break or lose or don't otherwise have your glasses, being able to do basic tasks like use your phone, navigate around outside your home, or get food could save your life. the rest of the time, there's no reason to make seeing harder on yourself, and these technologies exist to be used.

i just wish more people, especially more people who are significantly vision impaired without their glasses, would be proactive and make plans and learn how to exist without their glasses. it's important! it's really important! don't forget that they're still accessibility technology correcting for a significant disability!

[briviting]

neeew sona reeeef

[worstloki]

Unreliably narrated fic where Thor’s POV constantly refers to Loki as smaller/shorter/weaker/delicate/feminine/younger and everyone else’s POV (including Loki) is “these are two normal and similarly-sized guys”

[steddie-there]

I see all the "Steve needs glasses because of all the beatings he's gotten" takes and I raise you "Steve has always low-key needed glasses but no one ever noticed until his vision got worse from the beatings."

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Steve: Wait, so you're telling me that tree leaves don't blend together when you're farther away than standing right next to the tree?

Robin: No? Like, you know leaves are separate, right, dingus?

Steve: Well, yeah! Up close! But I thought it was some sort of... camouflage, or something! Like zebra stripes! That when you got far enough away the leaves just all looked like one big blob!

Robin: ...

Robin: Camouflage?!?!

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Eddie: So how'd you pass all those eye exams they gave us if the letters were blurry?

Steve: Well, I was always after Maggie Harmon in line and she was super smart, I mean, she even had glasses, so I just...

Eddie: You just what, Steve?

Steve: *hands over his face* I copied her answers.

Eddie: Steve, light of my life, are you telling me... you cheated on an eye exam?

Steve: I thought people would think I was stupid if I got the answers wrong!

Eddie: *processing* So you thought... it was a test... of how smart you were?

Steve: I was six!

Eddie: *trying not to laugh* Oh, Stevie, I love you.

Steve: *grumbly* Love you, too.

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Steve becoming a voracious reader now that reading doesn't give him a blinding headache. He didn't know books could be that awesome! They were always just painful!

Eddie loves it because the first thing Steve decides to read is "that nerd shit" (aka LOTR) and he gets really into it.

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The first time Steve puts on his glasses

Steve: *staring at Eddie kinda awestruck*

Eddie: What?

Steve: It's just - your eyes are even prettier than I thought.

Eddie: *utterly in love*

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Eddie: So, yeah, apparently Steve has needed glasses for a while now.

Dustin: Hold on. What? Steve, how long has your vision been shit?

Steve: Ummmm, I mean, it's been getting worse for years.

Dustin: So when you fought Billy - could you actually see him?

Steve: *starting to get annoyed* Yes, I could see him. He was just sort of. Blurry.

Dustin: *as if he's just made a fascinating discovery* Maybe that's why you lost so many fights! Maybe you're not actually terrible at fighting, you just couldn't see!

Steve and Eddie in tandem exasperation: Dustin!

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Of course, it's also sad because even if no one else figured it out, Steve's parents should have. But they didn't. And he thinks about that sometimes when he sees himself in the mirror with his glasses on. And it's just one more way he knows he wasn't wanted. They didn't even care enough to notice he couldn't see. When that happens, he gets reallh quiet and Robin and Eddie know exactly what he's thinking. Eddie pulls him down onto the couch next to him and Robin curls up on top of him with her arms wrapped around him in a hug and Eddie kisses his cheeks and they remind him that they want him.

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Also, Eddie thinks Steve is insanely hot with the glasses. Every morning, the first thing Steve does when he wakes up is put on his glasses. The first thing Eddie does is kiss him until those glasses are fogged up.

Eddie: If you'd been wearing these that time in the boathouse, I think I'd have had a hard time deciding if I wanted to hold a bottle to your neck or jump your bones.

Steve: *blushing*

[generic-sonic-fan]

If you care to entertain the thought:

The Finnish language has a gender neutral 3rd person pronoun for people and an "it" pronoun for objects & animals = not people. In official/book language at least. But 90% of the time in casual speech, we use "it" to refer to people as well. (It feels like night and day to use "it" in Finnish for people compared to English.)

Do you think Neo would thrive off of hearing people refer to it as "it" so casually if it interacted with (& translated) language speakers with this type of convention? Or would "it" being used like a "3rd person pronoun" feel strange/not fulfilling to Neo, due to the lack of distinction unless written down? (I assume "neutral 3rd person pronoun", by itself, might be like they/them for Neo?)

Similarly; you hc Omega with a strong he/him preference &, IIRC, an even stronger distaste for it/its. Would he tolerate a language that uses "it" so casually when meaning *3rd person pronoun*, not meant to sound objectifying in any way? + All while only having gender neutral pronouns in the first place, even if one was speaking properly (or in writing) & actively not using it/its. >No existing masculine pronouns to affirm gender anywhere (not counting using "Mr/Ms" type of titles).

I suppose it's up to interpretation on how difficult/easy it would be for them (compared to organic characters), to adjust to different language conventions like this, but I'm curious if you have any thoughts?

Ooooh, this is a fantastic question.

I think that Neo would be flattered with either pronoun! Sounds like both forms of "it" within the Finnish language lack a gender or pluralness- and gender is what Neo is seeking to avoid. It would be very pleased with this, and it would also wonder why it was programmed to think in a language as silly as English instead of the clearly superior Finnish. Neo's a bit more, shall we say, cerebral than Omega. I think it would adjust to the different language conventions very quickly.

Omega, meanwhile, would definitely have a preference. He would not tolerate the pronoun that's meant for objects and animals. He'd see it as incredibly demeaning, and you'd have to have a long talk with him to explain that the inanimate pronoun is not demeaning in the context of Finnish culture. He's got a little bit of a self-centered view of the world and doesn't handle the idea of different traditions very well? Mostly he just thinks they're weird and perceives himself as not being a part of any culture (despite that being untrue. He's kinda got the stereotypical American thing going on lol.) He's already a bit of a rebel in his own cultural context, let alone understanding the connotations of different cultures, if that makes any sense? He wouldn't adjust to the different language conventions very easily is what I'm saying.

Thank you for sending this ask!

[obstinatecondolement]

It feels like every day I read attempts to debunk the social model of disability that fundamentally misunderstand what the social model of disability is and who the people who developed that model were, including what the nature of their disabilities was, and I want to scream.

But I don't, because yelling at people on the internet is basically pointless. Instead I check to see that I'm not mutuals with whoever reblogged said misunderstanding and vague about it.

[mrcspectr]

Convinced that Jake keeps a very up to date contacts prescription, so between that and Steven’s peepaw glasses, Marc is the only one who can’t see.

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[witherroze]

hermit s10 glasses / goggles / eye enhancements hcs

[orcelito]

Did my optometrist appointment. Apparently I have mild astigmatism & light sensitivity 🤔 I'm going to get new glasses that will reduce glare and also do the sunglasses thing. And I am reaaaaally really hoping they help me with my headaches problem.

[freckleslikestars]

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Living Polaroid Project: 75/219

[quaranmine]

Your word-of-god on my theory is driving me UP THE WALL!

Ok, so let me make a timeline here, let me know if I'm wrong at any point.

He leaves his campsite on the 12th for a day hike, taking minimal supplies with him. He gets hopelessly lost and takes temporary shelter under some low-hanging tree limbs for the night.

He finds the mountainside where he fell early on the 13th and, with a pair of binoculars, can see the creek in the distance. Let's say the rangers and medical examiner were correct, and he was heading to the creek because, at this point, he's probably in the early stages of dehydration (his presumed cause of death)

He tries to climb down safely, and we all know how that went. He makes it as far as he can on a broken leg and possibly numerous superficial injuries that wouldn't have been evident a year later for obvious reasons. He takes shelter under the overhang and... never leaves.

Grian reports Mumbo missing on the 16th when he misses checking in.

Grian leaves Colorado and subsequently arrives in Cody, WY to join the search on the 17th and is immediately forcibly subjected to a nap.

At this point, Mumbo has been under that overhang for the better part of five days. If he was already dehydrated, even mildly, before he even fell, and especially if he lost a medically significant amount of blood from any abrasions or lacerations suffered during the fall...

There is a significant probability that Mumbo was already dead by the time Grian joined the search.

Grian never had a chance of finding him alive, did he?

Damn...

OOOO

Okay so your timeline is a bit different than mine. But I'd like to note—my idea of what happened to Mumbo in general is actually pretty vague. It was one of those things where it didn't actually matter much to the plot since it would never fully be known. Also it made me sad to think about LMAO (imagine that.) Actually though? I had a draft of chapter 11 where when Grian was unknowingly retracing Mumbo's steps, it would be intercut with italics/otherwise clearly formatted Mumbo moments. So that you could see both of their stories converge. I scrapped it because I disliked the ~3 paragraphs I'd written for Mumbo and never came back to it.

So, the dates for this can be whatever you want (12th or 13th) since the specifics don't matter much. I think the main difference is that I didn't have Mumbo getting lost as the first step, I had it as the second. This means that I had Mumbo leaving the trail intentionally to get water, and getting lost on the way. In my scenario yes, the rangers were right about him heading to the creek.

I mainly had this idea because of my experiences with backpacking in Big Bend. Namely, it's just....very, very, very hard to bring enough water on a trip like that. So people bring water filters. When hiking the South Rim in Big Bend, you can refill your bottles at Boot Spring (though you shouldn't rely on it having water since it's the desert.) I have done this before. (Pictured: my dad lol)

I figured that Mumbo probably needed to refill his water (Grian stated he left no bottles at camp, not just that they were empty, so he would've brought comparatively a lot for a day hike. So maybe he planned on refilling them later in the day.) I figured that maybe he just....didn't want to completely overshoot his camp to go back to the creek he crossed a day or two before. Maybe he thought his off-trail route was shorter. Maybe he was confident he could find the trail again. It doesn't matter, all that matters is it brought him to the place where he fell. Or maybe, related to what you said—maybe he made this somewhat silly decision because he was already dehydrated.

From that point on, I think the rest of your timeline matches with mine. You are right that they wouldn't be able to tell any other superficial injuries a year later. Actually, I've got no idea if they would be able to tell it was dehyrdation that did it after that long. That's MY idea of what happened. But probably it would have been more accurate for the rangers to file it under a general blanket of exposure/infection from injuries/dehydration.

I can't say if Mumbo was dead or not by the time Grian joined the search. You're 100% correct that it's very possible. The only reason I don't confirm is that I don't know the timeline myself, nor does the timeline really matter that much, since even if he was alive when the search started, it would've only taken a day or two more before he wasn't. And since he wasn't in the search radius....You are right that Grian never had a chance.

But I think it's less sad that way, honestly. Devastating still of course. I just think it's worse to linger for weeks when nobody is looking in the right place.

[clementimetodie]

DMV really said this Barbie can't FUCKING SEE