I've been wearing glasses since I was 14 years old. I'm so used to them I'd feel stupid without them.
I've worn glasses for vision correction (nearsightedness) since 6th grade so I feel your pain lol
The pain comes in when I have to pay for new glasses - they cost a fortune!
Oh I know! It's terrible! And constantly having to go to the optometrist to get a new prescription every year is the worst!
Yup! Used to be you could get glasses for free (in the UK where I grew up) but not any more, or I'd just get them when I'm over there.
Contact lens
A contact lens, or simply contact, is a thin lens placed directly on the surface of the eye. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over 150 million people worldwide, and they can be worn to correct vision, for cosmetic, or therapeutic reasons. In 2004, it was estimated that 125 million people worldwide use contact lenses, including 28 to 38 million in the United States. In 2010, the worldwide market for contact lenses was estimated at $6.1 billion, while the US soft lens
portrayed by Charlie Sheen). Hammer chose glasses over contacts because contacts burned his eyes, and said: "I was like, 'OK, if I'm going to do glasses, I might as well do something different'. They kind of look like the Wild Thing, so I figured I might as well just go for it. I got teased last spring. I got called everything from Harry Potter to Professor, but it's kind of what I've been known for."
On July 26,