i took an anti glasses masterclass

[@svenleeuwen]

I totally hate how they can always claim that you were not open minded enough if the masterclass doesn't deliver the promised results. Typical snake oil shenanigans.

[@olnnn]

Not only that. In these things it's also implied that the reason you (or your kid) has a problem is because you are not good enough/doing something wrong (rather than you know genetics/injury/environemt/random chance etc) which can be very harmful mentally if one gets taken into it.

[@AerynKDesigns]

that's becuase if your MLM business fails it's because you "didnt' work hard enough" not that you're in a cult.

[@GENERIC_CHANNEL_HANDLE]

"If you *want* to be a _victim,_ my class isn't for you!" Yup, makes me really wanna engage with her cOnTeNt.

[@lepidoptery]

your mind wasn't open enough, and neither was your wallet 😞

[@blursedoftimes]

Every MLM and grifter works. Tons of "well you just didn't do X hard enough" so if it doesn't work, its always your fault!

[@ramshaimam]

The fact that this lady has a section in her "Masterclass" for parents makes me worry for their kids. I don't care if you decide to fuck up your eyesight in any which way but once you start bringing your kids into it, it becomes a bigger problem.

[@kingworm7168]

Literally abusing their children by refusing them medical care and assistive devices while also mentally abusing them by telling them they CAN see when they CANNOT 🥴

[@DanielaMartinez-wt6ir]

Before getting a prescription I had HORRIBLE migraines and going to school was awful too, I got very distressed from not being able to see the chalkboard, I was 10 then. I really fear for those kids :(

[@kevannpankhurst]

The worst part is, if myopia is unchecked in kids, it will get significantly worse, which makes them far more likely to suffer from issues like retinal detachment as adults. Multi vision glasses/ contacts or ortho-k contacts can literally preserve a child’s vision and stop myopia from getting worse. Source: I wrote eye care websites and blogs for optometrists/ ophthalmologists for 5 years.

[@tubthungusbychumbungus]

I was 7 when I needed glasses and even then I probably needed them a year earlier. I could not imagine how difficult school would be if my parents forced me to do holistic treatment instead of getting glasses. The first time I put glasses on I was mesmerized by how clear everything was, the world was so beautiful, it would be cruel to deny that for a child

[@Ruthy101]

It's screaming Christian scientist faith healers that don't believe in taking their kids to the doctor for anything

[@confusedlizard]

as a low vision person i find it incredibly funny that this abled woman has invented “but have you tried yoga” for eyesight

[@mackenzieh6612]

Don't let the suburban house wives know. Then we will have to figt to get a glasses prescription also

[@hey_somebody]

I met a woman once who told me that, based on a documentary she watched, my allergies are not real. She said it was all psychological and offered to send me a link to the documentary. She also said my diabetic friend should stop taking insulin and just do a "liver cleanse." (Nevermind that the pancreas makes insulin, not the liver.)

[@pearlygirl88]

Ugh. My sister went the same way. Dude, I have cancer and my vision has been shit since I was a kid. Stop

[@CainXVII]

Yeah. I used to be best friends with the neighbors' daughter. My dad got alzheimers and he tried to get him to drink all kinds of raw juices. Against alzheimers. Because he felt better. I kinda remarked at some point that maybe he felt better because he was drinking juice instead of red wine every evening. I didn't want to talk to that family after that, I still avoid them.

[@blueberryslushee2277]

A liver cleanse? I'm interested in what that would even entail. 😂

[@kittikat4124]

man I wish my allergies weren't real! I'm moderately to severely allergic to 253 things. I basically can't go outside without having a reaction lol

[@hey_somebody]

@@kittikat4124 I feel you lol. This woman was a guest of my family member, and she brought her cat to my house without asking. I'm severely allergic to cats. And she let it in my bedroom, where my then-partner (who is also allergic to cats) was sleeping. Then she treated it like a game when I told her to get it out of there. I snapped on her. 😂 I can laugh about it now, but I was furious. She was also one of those people who believe vaccines cause autism and that autism is a disease ... and she brought this up when I was talking about the autistic children in my family. Sooo this person was uniquely disgusting to me, and I told my family member to never bring her to my house ever again.

[@larisabenton7003]

Blue being the "superior" eye color is interesting to me because a lot of science points to blue eyes being more likely in having color blindness, and eye diseases. Very interesting to think about.

[@rc31802]

It's all racism. I have light grey eyes and there is nothing superior about them

[@kosaciecsyberyjski]

Also blue eyes are very light sensitive, I can't go outside in the winter or summer because just the sunlight bouncing off things hurts lol

[@gaerekxenos]

Doesn't this talk remind you of something...? A little something called... eugenics? You know, that thing behind White Supremacy and racism, that was actually a very big driving force for the Holocaust? Yeah, that =_=;; I can't believe someone would go and use those words and ideas for supposedly a "healing" class

[@StoneBasilisk]

​@@kosaciecsyberyjski the light sensitivity is the actual worst lmao. my eyes lack so much melanin they're gray and I usually just stare at the ground whenever it's not cloudy because it hurts to even look straight

[@drumblebee]

me with blue eyes trying to read this 🔵👄🔵

[@mckinleyt98]

this whole thing strikes me as so ableist… although most glasses-needers wouldn’t think to call ourselves disabled unless it was severe enough to be considered blindness, the idea that you can fix something that’s going on with your body so you no longer need an aid to function, if you’re just willing to do the spiritual work???

[@shzrnn]

Came to the comments to say this! So much of people's medical trauma includes doctors not believing their pain/experience, thinking they're "faking it," "lazy," etc. Especially for disabled folks. And when they search for an alternative, it's a "wellness influencer" saying basically the same thing. The ableism is DEEP.

[@madalynnmccarron4590]

I honestly wish i *could* call my eyesight a disability (without getting an eye roll) because it IS. Without these visual aids I literally cannot read or see anything within ~2-4ft of me, I could sit at my PC and not be able to watch a video because I can't see it! If my contacts are being problematic and I don't have my glasses with me, then I have to endure a wonky visual aid which is both painful/irritating and annoying. This feels entirely ableist to me as well. It strikes the same nerve as "pray away your depression" and the like for me

[@gothicmuffinofdoom]

@@madalynnmccarron4590It took me so much time to realize that my eyesight was a disability, I just thought of myself as someone who wore glasses, but without them or contacts, I am not able to function normally. I can move around my house and do some basic things, but that is about it. I can't actually leave and walk outside (and believe me teenage me tried, stairs are out of the question)

[@plumli4947]

As a glasses haver who doesn't think of themselves as disabled (lol, who am I kidding, if the cops catch me without these on it's a crime), the attitude that you can just HEAL YOURSELF BY THINKING GOOD is totally ableist. It sounds funny when it comes to us but it's how people treat autistic people, chronic pain havers, alcoholics and depressed people. These people are so incredibly unempathetic they should take a masterclass.

[@bleronk6840]

yeah it’s 100% ableism. Actually, i’d argue that glasses-wearers largely don’t consider themselves disabled bc of the ease of accommodation and lack of ableism. In the case of this weird grift, i would consider poor vision a disability.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

When my daughter was a baby, my wife and I thought she might have autism spectrum disorder because she wouldn't look at people and really just loved to stare at the squiggles on her mobile. At age 2, she was much better than her twin sister at their favorite game: bucket girl. They would put buckets on their heads and walk around and one of my kids crashed into things less with the bucket than without it. So we got her glasses. Poor kid can't see crap without them. She has strabismus and we got the glasses when we noticed her eye turning. Turned out, her eyeballs aren't quite the right shape and she was squeezing them into the right shape to see, which tired her muscles out, then her brain would just stop using that eye and then her eye would turn. With patching and glasses, that improved. 9 years later, her eye still turns when she takes the glasses off. But not she sees it more as a party trick. Look how I can make my eye go crossed! And her vision has now stabilized and even slightly improved in the last couple of years. Her vision still sucks, but it doesn't seem to be getting worse now. By the way, glasses with 2 year old twins... oy givult. It took a lot of convincing for my daughter with good eyes to understand that her sisters glasses were NOT a toy. My daughter with glasses still has a small scar from the glasses being dragged over her face by her sister. Also, the ones insurance pays for do NOT hold up to a pair of toddlers. They lasted a couple of weeks. They paid for one replacement that also lasted a couple of weeks and then we had to pay hundreds of dollars for plastic ones we couldn't afford that actually handled the abuse.

[@bleeploughly6311]

Glasses are SO expensive. Thank you for sharing your story !! Really glad your daughter is seeing much better!!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

@@bleeploughly6311 Yeah. Fortunately, she now can wear the ones provided by insurance. They have better choices available for kids than they did for toddlers and she likes the bifocals rather than the expensive progressive lenses we'd need to pay for out of pocket. Also, now that her sight has stabilized, we were able to get last year's prescriptions made into sunglasses and keep the previous year as emergency backups.

[@MorningStar426]

My 5 year old wears glasses and her little brother has made it his life goal to get his hands on those glasses. He’s already broken one pair.

[@TheReZisTLust]

I'm dying 😭 kids blind and u think autism 😂

[@anacrea3931]

@@TheReZisTLust the first step in diagnosing autism and ADHD is meant to be ruling out any issues with vision and hearing. Being unable to see or hear well can lead to symptoms that may look like autism or adhd in kids (i.e., lack of eye contact, not engaging with others, not paying attention when spoken to). In really young kids who don't have a grasp on language yet, lack of eye contact is often the first noticeable symptom of autism.

[@naikahara]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 7 and I can 100% confirm that "lack of clarity" is a real reason for why you might not be able to see (holistic). I too can't see shit until I clean my glasses every day. Samantha is a genius you guys!

[@JokeswithMitochondria]

ive had adhd for years and i didnt realize i just needed to focus (holistic). Thanks to this comment now im cured of my adhd

[@tomhappening]

@@JokeswithMitochondria got curious abiut ur username so clciked on ur profile. Your channel is a hidden gem rofl

[@sterlingarcher8041]

@@tomhappening lol thanks for pointing it out. Made my day

[@Smidgeon-pigeon]

You just have to integrate a cleansing ritual into your daily routine...of wiping down your glasses with a damp cloth.

[@BeantownMrs]

thanks for the reminder to clean my glasses! 👓

[@Kilia]

My story is that i got glasses when i was 14 because… i didnt know i was supposed to see good. Nobody ever told me things were not blobs. But since my grades were always really good, and i would always sit in the front line in class, no one ever realized i didnt see shit. So one day i stole my best friend glasses i went: what the actual fuck is this (remember, ive been living in blurry world for 14 years) and she explained thats what the world really looked like. Fast forward, i got glasses and the first thing that i told my mom when i put them on was about how beautiful leaves in trees were and to this day she still feels bad about it 😂

[@sumlem]

Are you based in the US? In my Illinois elementary school, we had mandatory eye exams in the nurses office with a local optometrist and my state issues a free pair once a year for kids. Me, my niece and nephew all received our first pair of glasses around age 5. It's not a perfect system as there are gaps in eye care based on demographic and location, but I'm curious to know if that was ever available for you.

[@Kilia]

⁠@@sumlemno, just a latam girl from Chile. Mandatory eyesight check at school is something we should have, but we dont :(

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

Oh wow! I have bad eyesight too but it runs in the family so I was prescribed glasses pretty early. I can't imagine living in a blurry world for so long The only thing I can compare it to is the short time I tried contact lenses, everything looked so sharp! I remember being amazed that could see the individual metal bars on the balconies on the 6th floors, which is way less poetic than your experience with the leaves haha

[@mythicalmim]

I have a very similar story to you! I didn’t get glasses until I was around 13, but I was a straight A student. I knew I had trouble seeing though around 5th grade when I had to start moving closer and closer to be able to read anything on the board, but for some reason no one pointed it out in class and my parents always told me to move closer if I said I couldn’t see. Finally it clicked when my mom asked me what time it was and I told her I could not read the clock that was on the wall. They felt horrible 😅 I actually forgot my glasses a couple times after I first got them because I was so used to everything being blurry

[@vendiagram7425]

i wore glasses a little younger than that, maybe 9-10 and I had the exact same reaction to being able to see the individual leaves on a tree instead of a tall green shape lol

[@KittenKindness]

My biggest issue with snake oil salespeople is that I know that they prey on people who either can't afford medical help or people who have been abandoned by the medical field. I was turned away by doctors several times when I had legitimate PHYSICAL health issues because they assumed I just had anxiety. You know who doesn't turn away patients? People who really want your money. It's just so depressing. I do believe some holistic stuff is good and the medical world needs to do some catching up in terms of how they treat patients, but overall I just wish this wasn't such a problem.

[@bishielurfer]

They also prey on people who are desperate. As someone with multiple chronic illnesses, I've seen so many people in my community with ailments doctors haven't been able to definitively diagnose or that we don't have a good treatment for yet and they get taken advantage of by people selling them false hope (and in some cases telling them to do things that will make them worse).

[@ImmortalEmz]

going to be honest, the intro with all the glasses is twice as funny on this anti glasses master class video

[@pirieproductions]

As an optometry student, this was so painful to watch. The amount of misconceptions around eye health and vision is always staggering. Thank you for calling these things out! And don't worry about time spent close to your computer "hurting" your eyes! You are using the muscle in your eye to see up close, so it is a good idea to look away and give the muscle a rest every 20 minutes or so, but near work will not make you more near-sighted!

[@joelleblanc8670]

So you're a drone from "Big Optometry". Lol.. Just kidding! Good luck with studies, you'll help lots of people.

[@Cove_Blue]

Few things spark a fury deep within me like people spreading medical misinformation.

[@benny_lemon5123]

After a friend's mom and my own uncle tried curing their respective cancers with oils and apricot kernels- I agree completely!

[@Allison-jj1vq]

Yes, I lost my best friend to covid. It was totally avoidable.

[@Cove_Blue]

@@Allison-jj1vq I'm so sorry

[@kevinsecretplace4546]

Tip for everyone based on your eye trauma story at the beginning: if you ever have an eye injury, always go to an optometrist rather than the ER. An eye doctor's office should always have an on-call doctor and they are way better trained and equipped to handle eye injuries than an ER, including severe physical trauma.

[@mistymoon883]

Yes, optometrists can help with urgent eye care! Foreign bodies in the eye, infections, blurry or loss of vision, and seeing strange spots/lights/whatever. But if you’re dealing with a major issue then please go to the emergency room. If the eye is out of the socket, the eyeball is punctured or the eye area is badly damaged with multiple cuts that may have cut inside the eye socket or the eye itself then rush to the hospital. Check if there is an emergency eye clinic in your area because it will be the best place to go for either. Familiarity with your area’s emergency/urgent medical services is extremely helpful so take a moment to look into it now!

[@clarisaxpianist]

​@mistymoon3164 basically, know what is around where you live and go to what is available to you :) yes, urgent care optometry/ophthalmology is probably better but ED docs will (should) also be trained in how to at least protect your eye until an optometrist or ophthalmologist can be called in

[@savannah4439]

What if my eye explodes outside of business hours

[@superultragiggachigga]

⁠​⁠@@savannah4439I saw a video like this on twitter.. wonder if he went to the optometrist?? 🤔

[@xandrah.8261]

Also, if you get a curtain like shadow in your vision (partial or full) head to the ER. That is a sign of a retinal detachment and surgery should be done as soon possible.

[@stringcheese6833]

As someone with a -6 in both eyes, I cannot imagine just pretending I don't need glasses and hoping my problems would just go away. It would be a legitimate safety hazard to go out in public without my glasses, even without driving, because the distance I can see in front of me is severely shortened. Peripheral vision is just not a thing for me unless I wear contacts. I would have an easier time pretending to be completely blind. Maybe it is different for people with a better prescription, but I can only imagine the harm this 'masterclass' would cause if it was universally accepted.

[@d1sintegrat10n]

Exactly!! I have a -7.25/-6.00 and I can’t do anything without my glasses it’s terrible to act like I can just heal my broken eyeballs

[@TheElf_Online]

I don’t think I can “fake it until I make it” when I literally can’t see shit more than two inches from my face. If I was forced to go without glasses I would literally be operating like a legally blind person.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Please lady heal my -11 and -8 myopia and astigmatism, and turn my Japanese heritage dark brown eyes blue! Let me know when you're done. My last eye appointment went "now take off your glasses, can you read any of the lines?" "I think there's a wall in that general area."

[@SparklesNJazz]

at someone with -9.00 left and -8.00 right… i feel you. i would be a danger to society

[@TheRonnieaj]

@@sunnyandthechloI cackle whenever they ask me if I can read a line. I’ll tell them what the line is, and then tell them that I saw it before they blacked it out, because I can’t even tell there’s anything on the screen. I’m-8.5/-6.0 with a right eye astigmatism and +1.25 readers. This lady would probably just think she’d been condemned to hell.

[@chloem6506]

i've been wearing glasses since i was 5 and have a prescription of about -10/11. things are blurry unless they're two inches from my face. NO amount of positive thoughts and "healing" exercises is giving my my vision back lmaoooo

[@TheReZisTLust]

Have you tried carrots doc 🤔

[@Boggy102]

I came to the comments for the same thing. I'm -9.5 in one eye and -12 in the other. Literally 2-3 inches is the max reading distance.

[@faeriesmak]

We have about the same prescription! I can see about 2 inches from my face…but my close up vision is really good! 😝

[@monoex]

Dang you're almost the same as me! Right down to the age of when we started to wearing glasses lol. Guess we're just not living laughing or loving (or lying?) enough for perfect vision.

[@stuckatthevalley]

Well, have you tried confidence?

[@HomosexuaCalderu]

I loved the part where Velma came in wearing a latex bodysuit and asked Amanda "Who's your Mommy?"

[@hicknopunk]

Is Velma drunk? She knows who mommy is and it is not her.

[@nicematerial]

Then Amanda said "it's swellin' time" and swole all over everything.

[@BooksAndABlanket]

I was born with poor vision. The is enraging. These scammers ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they never are until they're facing jail time.

[@Sophia-Sews]

As a someone who was legally considered visually impaired as a child, and received her first pair of super thick glasses at 4, I completely agree. This stuff isn't just stupid, it's outright dangerous

[@jaybee2337]

Those people leaving “testimonials” for the class all say they don’t have to wear glasses anymore but they don’t say anything about not wearing contact lenses anymore…

[@shezmeister2771]

My mom hasn’t been wearing glasses since she lost them in 2019 and she never got another pair and let me tell you … she came to my drama performances (last year) and told me it was good but we were all just blobs on stage. Yh, she still can’t see. Also she didn’t get a new pair purely because she can’t afford to. So I don’t think anti glasses makes sense.

[@RedXiongmao]

Please tell me she doesn't live somewhere where you have to drive to get around

[@kookykiddo]

What is it with moms and not wearing their glasses. 😭 my mom has nearly the exact same prescription as me and never wears glasses, where as I can’t survive without mine

[@randomtinypotatocried]

If your mom can get her prescription, there is a few websites that have cheap eyeglasses she can buy (believe one or two of them even have payment plans for them too)

[@jed1nat]

Glasses literally cost $20 these days. Nobody can't afford them.

[@RedXiongmao]

@@jed1nat Reading glasses maybe, but for distance you have to go to the eye doctor and good luck getting out of there without spending $100

[@rn2787]

Brown is the default color for human eyes (like green for cats). The others are mutations that are usually benign. However, people with blue eyes are at higher risk for vision issues.

[@gennybaratta2460]

Well that would certainly explain why i (a person with blue eyes) have been wearing glasses since i was 10

[@diadema333]

Fun fact! LASIK doesn’t repair presbyopia, a condition that occurs around your early 40s, so it only works so long for us eyeglass wearers anyways :-) keep ur brand and represent! Love your content!

[@winterburden]

Thanks for protecting us from anti-glasses shenanigans Swell!

[@lys569]

When I started wearing glasses around age 11, my grandma kept trying to convince me not to wear them because "They'll make your vision even worse!" it was a fun time.

[@Kyiecutie]

😑😑😑 my parents said the same thing to me. And they BOTH wear glasses! Trifocals!! Welp. Now I’m 25 and I can’t see shit, almost… almost like it’s genetic, or something.

[@MaxximusP]

oh yeah, I am almost legally blind (like will be in less than five years) and she's right. I just don't have spiritual and mental strength. I definitely do not have severe pathological myopia and I can TOTALLY see more than an inch in front of my face. I just like the attention and going to a doctor's office for no reason every year. lmaooooo Also edit: this is just like, ableist nonsense. And it isn't slick of clever, eugenicists have been doing this for a long time. Also lol at the person who was like "I used to have a negative two prescription" which is like, barely nearsighted. And, with age, nearsightedness improves for a lot of folks, esp folks with low prescriptions. I am legit not surprised any of this happens/exists, but it is still disappointing.

[@molnotmole3428]

Went to a woo woo optometrist in the 90s, he made us march & watch weird videos to cure all of our illnesses. He was basically a chiropractor but with eyes. My eyes are still jacked.

[@grandmasterestrada1592]

I think Scientology did the same thing back in the 50's.

[@Cbbartelt]

That literally doesn’t make sense. You understand that chiropractic has a ton of scientific studies behind it and that orthopedists also adjust the spine but they have less studies, less practice and less experience? Or do you not know what you’re saying and are just making uninformed nonsensical comments? Do you have any idea how many “reputable” medical doctors do stem cell therapy to “cure” cerebral palsy, which is literally brain damage? A LOT and there is not evidence it cures brain damage and almost none it even makes any difference. There is 0 “woo woo” about chiropractic even if there are ableist chiropractors. Most of the medical field is ableist so that’s the norm not an exception.

[@aim-to-misbehave5674]

Rebecca Watson did a video on the history of the anti-glasses pseudoscience mess, I think the 90s rebranding was in there too

[@molnotmole3428]

@@meowmeowmeowmeowcatoncomputer oh ya I remember those being “cool”. I mean it’s useful in the mountains for tourists but besides that not so much

[@sunnyandthechlo]

@@meowmeowmeowmeowcatoncomputer I actually went to one of those oxygen bars a loooong time ago. It was actually kinda nice to breathe in something other than dry ass desert air for a bit. But the whole time she kept trying to sell me this 200 dollar device that I realized my dad already owned and didn't pay anywhere near that amount for. So pretty scammy but at least I didn't pay anything and I didn't get hurt.

[@TheCappyCorn]

As a member of the glasses tribe, this is just too funny to me. I started wearing glasses when I was 6 (well, sort of, I hated them and only wore them when I was made to which I am sure messed up my vision more later on). By the time I was around 10, I had to go to my eye doctor every 6 months to get my prescription updated and eventually we had to have special lenses made so my glasses wouldn't be too thick. I was basically told I would eventually become legally blind. Then lasix came around. I probably shouldn't have qualified, as I never had any kind of stable prescription ever, but I got it done when I was 22 and had nearly perfect vision (minus my astimagtism that I have in both eyes) for 17 years. Then my vision started to get bad again and I had touch up surgery. I'm in glasses yet again. So yeah... Eye Doctors don't lie. My eyeballs don't like seeing apparently 😆😆

[@TheGuindo]

i'm glad that lasik was able to bring your vision back to correctable levels! i mean i'm sure it sucks to need glasses _again_ after getting surgery to fix your eyes twice, but going from "inevitably going blind" to "correctable with standard lenses" is pretty cool i think.

[@SaintShion]

My mom has albinism and has this rare eye thing that her eyes look brown w/ a blue ring around them. The optometrist said if you did lasix on my mom her eyes are actually blue under the brown top layer. Sadly its also making her blind from macular degeneration.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

That's crazy that you were able to do Lasik even though they said you'd eventually be blind. They told me that my eyes are too bad to do Lasik on, they'd have to remove way too much of whatever it is they remove. So glad you're able to see better at least!

[@TheCappyCorn]

@@sunnyandthechlo I got it done at the height of “everyone get this done! Hey look at this, come to us and we’ll do it for X amount”. I’m very lucky now that I look back on it. There was no checking of my records with my ophthalmologist or anything. I just had one quick consult, set up an appointment and then had the procedure

[@daddytchaik]

I think what you said about using holistic medicine in combination with traditional medicine is really valuable. Even if holistic practices just help you feel less stressed, that’s genuinely important. Also the Placebo effect is very much a real thing. (And I mean that in a good way!)

[@Kyiecutie]

I just have to say, holistic medicine is not a placebo, homeopathic medicine is. Holistic medicine considers the entire person, not just the issue being treated. Homeopathy is moreeeee or less pseudoscience. lol

[@reniesulaweyo4383]

Absolutely! There is also scientific researchers looking into in how to more reliably harness that effect. It's fun, even when you know about the placebo effect and get told you are getting a not-active substance, it still happens for people. So maybe prescribed sugar pill placebos will actually become a thing in the far future, only that the patients are talked through it and that it's basically about tricking the brain/body into doing its own work.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Rebecca Watson did a recent video on this in a very different style. Probably would make a good companion piece to this one to tackle it from a different angle. Watson doesn't take the class, but she does go through the history of the pseudoscience.

[@Fawstah]

It’s really sad watching people I respect falling for bs like this. I’ve been coming home to my smart speaker playing music, my friend immediately said it was “a spirit” or “voodoo magic” without any irony. I got a security cam just to prove it was, in fact, a rat. Presumably one that was quite fond of music, bc it kept coming back and climbing on the top of my homepod mini.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

I read this thinking it was gonna be power surges but a musically inclined rat is...something.

[@muppetboy123_]

You have to be able to see to be a graphic designer so it makes sense that that one woman had to switch careers. 😂

[@EmyN]

Lol 😂

[@Kyiecutie]

Literally my exact thoughts.

[@emilydennie2712]

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 1.5 years old, have a degenerative eye disease and old have other disabilities (migraines with stroke like symptoms). I am sick and tired of people telling those who are disabled or need aids that those aids are bad and one wouldn’t need those if they included positive thinking. Aids (like glasses) are what provide those with disabilities the ability to participate in daily life, without them we wouldn’t have a life. Aids aren’t something we should see as “bad” or something that makes someone “weak” is awful when they are something that gives persons with disabilities freedom.

[@puan1211]

Of course Swell would try this out. Can’t believe I saw this and didn’t immediately think Amanda would try it out

[@arielpearson4819]

"She didn't want to see her life, her parents,... the injustice in the world..." And now she won't have to bc she doesn't wear her glasses anymore.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

A success story.

[@kumaxhime]

I've had glasses for 20 years (since I was 6, and contacts since 13). If glasses are actually a Matrix thing, at this point I'm a proud sheep in the system

[@pajji1993]

I got LASIK done almost 2 years ago now. I was in the same boat. My eyesight was BAD and I’m not even 30 yet lol (-7.50 left eye, -8.50 right eye). Super terrified to get it done but my mom and sister kept encouraging me to do it. They gave me some anti anxiety medicine but I can’t remember what it was called. By the time I was in the chair I was so chilled out lmao. Literally nothing could have freaked me out at that point. It took a total of maybe 5 mins and then I was done. I’m grateful that I got it done but I do miss having my glasses since I’ve lived with them for so long.

[@carmendelcastillo7724]

It's so great they give that medicine. I'm pretty sure that's the only way my sister was able to do it. Without it I'm sure she wouldn't have done as well as she did.

[@pajji1993]

@@carmendelcastillo7724I agree! I would’ve been way too scared to sit there for that without it. My boyfriend was in the little sitting area they have for the person who is taking you home and watched. They had a tv in there that showed the entire procedure so he decided to record it and show me lol. It was like watching a scene from SAW.

[@nicoleleboeuf-little1048]

@@pajji1993 I opted out of whatever med they offered because those actually make me more anxious - it wasn't too bad though. My husband watched the process through the window and described it to me later like "it's like they just took a can-opener to your eyes!" Woo, glad I hadn't thought about it that way... Also, he reported that the computer operating the laser was running on Windows95 (this was 2003). Another thing I'm glad I didn't know about going in! I'm starting to get the middle-age thing where my eye just doesn't want to change from close-up to far-off focus very quickly, but I'm still benefiting from LASIK having corrected my myopia and astigmatism, so, contrary to what someone elsewhere in the thread said, it doesn't "stop working" when you get older. It's just, other, non-correctable effects tend to happen too.

[@chelseascreatures]

This is right up there with "you don't have asthma, you just need to breathe better. Here sniff my essential oils"

[@shoji1431]

Ahoy, fellow vision rebels! Say goodbye to those spectacle shenanigans and jump aboard the wacky wagon of anti-glasses glory! Imagine a world where squinting is your secret handshake, and you trade in your frames for fancy magnifying glasses just for the laughs. With daily eye yoga, you'll be able to wink at birds from miles away, making them your feathered pals. Plus, think of all the money you'll save on not buying glasses, which you can invest in an elaborate collection of monocles instead, because why settle for one eye accessory when you can have many? So, don your monocles, unleash your inner eye pirate, and let's sail the high seas of silliness together! 😜🔍

[@anahnnemus5187]

🧐 I believe you were looking for this emoji but who can say? Better yet, who can see? Hahaha (toff laughter)

[@crazyowlgirlcncowner]

​@@anahnnemus5187no, clearly they need fancy magnifying glasses

[@Kyiecutie]

Wink at birds from miles away 😭😭😭😭 I’m crying

[@Man-ej6uv]

amazing

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Well you've convinced me. I'm all in, how much money you want?

[@_marimopeace]

not amanda getting sucked into the vision masterclass rabbit hole omg this is abt to be epic! 😂 when the founder started stalking mallory (who posted the viral expose twt thread) on all her socials and threatening legal action for that zoom sc i was hoping someone would do a deep dive on it and swell delivered!!

[@Olivia-gg8bt]

My Dad is an optomertrist - my parents have been buying me glasses since I was like 7 and anyone who has brought glasses know that's not cheap! If there was ANY way to 'cure' bad eyesight, I think he would have done it 😂

[@LyrinaeSings]

As a person born 13 weeks prematurely, with permanent blindness in one eye and permanent retinal damage in the "good" eye, I've been wearing glasses since birth. Very funny (read: sad) that people are making a sleazy grift out of anything and everything. As much as I'd love for positive thinking to cure me of nystagmus, glaucoma, aphakia, nearsightedness, astigmatism, and partial retinal detachment, I'm gonna keep wearing my glasses. lmao For some people, constantly squinting and rejecting corrective lenses might make your vision worse. It will certainly cause more eye strain.

[@nicolescats2]

Your vision has to be bad enough that your brain isn't getting images to process and might stop trying for it to make your vision worse. Otherwise, it just gives you a headache. Not wearing your glasses with a mild impairment doesn't help in any way, it just doesn't do anything.

[@onelooongleg]

As someone who had nearly 20/200 vision, I did heal my eyes with my mind. I have severe eye trauma (was supposed to be born blind, had a traumatic dr appt as a baby, too poor as a child to keep up to date on prescriptions), and the thought of anything eye related would nearly make me sick. Earlier this year, I decided to get Lasik even though I was scared and so anxious I was shaking. Now, I have 20/25 vision. It's vile to create a masterclass to make money off of people with medical trauma, and then try to make them feel bad because they didn't believe hard enough and it didn't work. Some people are shameless.

[@RaijuTheTiger]

I suffer from Keratoconus, my prescription is not the biggest problem, the shape of my eye is the problem. I cannot have lasik, I NEED my contact lenses in order to change the shape of my eye TO SEE. The fact that someone is trying to say optometrists and glasses are a scam is so funny to me. Trust me, if we could "pray the bad eyesight away" we would have done so already. lol

[@joelleblanc8670]

100%.. my husband and a lot of his family have keratoconus and it's wild.

[@RaijuTheTiger]

@@joelleblanc8670 Lol anyone who thinks my spider vison can be fixed with "Spiritual healing" and essential oils is actually insane.

[@shirefb2006]

The moment this video started I smelled an MLM. Shocker.

[@Jayfive276]

It's the same "If it's not working, you're not trying hard enough and need to pay more money" that is the baseless of every one of these scams.

[@fishieshavenoeyes]

As the father of a 3 year old, your eye trauma story is every parent’s nightmare

[@hell0mega]

this subject is perfect for you, it's cultish, scammish, tiktok nonsense, and glasses are kinda your thing

[@pazz]

20:47 Sounds like a nightmare. Imagine being a kid who has come to the realization that they can't see as well as the other kids can. You can't see the whiteboard in class, can't learn as effectively. Imagine going to your parents and telling them all this, and being told "No, you CAN see". Man, that sounds awfully isolating, being told what you're experiencing is just not true.

[@familyminahan3343]

Completly unrelated, but staring at Amanda’s glasses so much made me realize how nice her makeup looks

[@Cmdrkat]

Heard about this yesterday and am so glad you addressed this cause it's totally bonkers for me to hear. I work for an ophthalmology (specialists) office and have a lot of experience with the topic. I am not providing medical advice, just some thoughts. Brown eyes are actually the most common? You can just Google that. Blue eyes are blue because they actually have a lack of pigment. You can get a surgery to get your eyes changed from brown to blue, but you can't do the opposite; you can't add pigment back. It carries a lot of risk. So her saying blue eyes are the most "natural" eyes is very interesting. It's interesting as well that a lot of people were saying their vision 'improved'. I'm curious the age ranges of these people and if it was their near-vision or far-vision that improved, since there IS a phenomena where someone's near sight can improve...usually when they begin to develop cataracts in later years :D The eye muscle exercises do exist and they do work...but usually for children with issues like strabismus because their eye is still developing, so you can avoid surgery if you catch it early enough. I personally wear blue-light prescription mono-lens because I do a lot of computer work, and I often have to look away from the screen because too much screentime can definitely affect your vision. I wear contacts for certain occasions but glasses for everything else. I don't hate either, but contacts dry my eyes out so I prefer to not unless I have to. Too much UV light can damage your eyes too. That's...be an advocate for your own health and do your research. Please talk to medical professionals as well. You can't get back eyesight, only prevent losing further eyesight. P.S: Also, just as a sidenote. There's definitely a hustle for optometrist to sell glasses. I'm not a fan of it myself. It's how they make money from your insurances. But you can just... use your old frames, and just pay for lenses?? I've done that for years and it costs me way less to bring my own frames and just have them fit lenses for them instead. You can get a pair of frames from a goodwill for like $3 bucks and they work just as well.

[@mistymoon883]

Wow!! Who knew it was so simple to cure my incurable genetic disorder that has led to my deteriorating eyesight and reshape my eyeball!!! I’m 39 and need a stronger prescription every 1-3 years and I will never qualify for laser surgery because of that and because my condition also causes extremely poor healing. In my 20’s I wore contacts but I had to stop using them daily because I wasn’t getting enough oxygen and my eyes started developing new blood vessels like crazy. I only wear contacts occasionally, like special events or going to the pool. But recently decided to try wearing contacts more often because I have been playing with makeup more and the big thick black glasses I wear seem to take away from the eye look. Except I noticed that they hide the dark circles that have worsened in the last few years 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@Kyiecutie]

Is it EDS? Because you sound JUST like me and my EDS eye struggles 🥴

[@mistymoon883]

@@Kyiecutie Yes!!

[@Kyiecutie]

@@mistymoon883 I knew it!! Hello fellow zebra 🫶🏻🦓

[@mfuentes4961]

Can’t wait to see if girl boss delusions/manifestations can help fix my nearsightedness and astigmatism!💁🏽‍♀️🤓

[@konabearxx2123]

I have been wearing glasses since I was 18 months old because I have REALLY bad astigmatism (my lenses currently are about half a centimeter thick 😅). I’m now 30 😂 I understand glasses just now being a part of your identity. I also have an aversion to touching my eyeball, so no contacts for me!!

[@SneakyPlu]

Wow, I've never had such a clear view on this topic.Thanks!!

[@Akursedtime]

Never about such a thing existing. I love my glasses and can be deemed visually impaired without it. These people are just scammers and leeches.

[@mariaha.7027]

I remember some other creator I watch online mention the anti-glasses and immediately dismissed it due to needing to wear glasses since I was 8. More and more people are needing glasses because of the amount of technology we look at daily, however it isn't necessarily the blue light; my new optometrist said its a scam since you get more uv rays entering your eyes when you are out in the sun. The issue that I believe, which you mentioned, is not giving your eyes a break. There's a good short, 6 minute video made by Vox called "Why so many people need glasses now" that explain why more people have myopia. It also goes into a study where kids had a mandatory set time to go outside, and the results showed that just doing this helped the kids' vision. Though I do get why people don't like wearing glasses. In high-school I shifted to contacts because I was doing sports and kept wearing them because I didn't like how I looked in glasses. Fast forward to now, I finally found a pair of glasses that I love how they look on me! Now I don't mind wearing my glasses as much, however I do heavily wear my contacts since I don't like wearing glasses when driving. Regardless, I think finding a pair of glasses that you like wearing will definitely help people wanting to wear them more.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Drew Carey got Lasik. Then he had to wear plain glass glasses because his eyewear was also his brand. It was in his logo.

[@alwaysemilia]

Wait that’s hilarious! I never knew that, but it makes sense because I don’t know if I could picture him without glasses.

[@hannahteller1383]

Soooo appreciate how you touched on the whole holistic medicine ONLY kind of treatment. A coworker of mine had twin sisters who both contracted cancer. One twin continued her chemo and is alive today, the other was convinced by a "family friend" to go holistic and give up her chemo and unfortunately died. It was such a preventable tragedy.

[@rtred3_]

So my vision had improved from -2.5 and -2.75 to -2.25 in both eyes over the course of 2 years. I can probably attribute this to significantly less screentime since I had graduated and wasn't straining my eyes poring over notes anymore. I think your vision can improve (happened to my dad and sister as well) but only a bit. My sister has 20/20 vision now but hers was never as bad as mine. I also don't think the optometry community is out to get me, but it does suck how expensive it is to see properly 😅

[@Nox-q8k]

I've been doing reverse lense therapy (free resources) and I've only seen a slight improvement, but my eye strain has gone away. Could just be because I'm more aware of my screen time now.

[@deeviousrat]

i was in gymnastics as a kid and my mom swore up and down at me that my vision was fine even though i kept telling her i couldn’t see things clearly and it made me more fearful of doing events. it took me getting injured for her to give in and make an optometry appt for me. i’ve been wearing glasses/contacts for almost 20 years now. 🤡 always listen to and acknowledge your kids when they start to complain about their vision, especially if they’re in an extracurricular sport. my knees still bother me all these years later. i love essential oils. that being said i wouldn’t use them to “cure” my eyesight lol the few times i’ve rubbed them on my wrist and then forgot and went to rub my eyes made me hate my life

[@dalia5964]

Swell is looking extra pretty today!!

[@timetraveler878]

Once I put peppermint oil on my temples to try and alleviate a headache (painkillers weren't working, and I was desperate) and it ran down my face into my eye. I was wearing contacts and it got stuck underneath. It burned so badly, I thought I might go blind. Thankfully I was near the kitchen sink and I could do an eye wash. I was very very lucky to learn that lesson with minimal damage done. So yeah, I would say don't risk getting oil in your eyes, and be EXTREMELY careful using oils on your face or even near your eyes.

[@anetaw.3742]

My ophthalmologist says that it's good for the eyes to look at nature and trees, but it certainly won't improve your eyesight, it just relaxes your eyes, which is also important. I've been wearing glasses since I was a child, anything that happens to my eyes terrifies me, but somehow I've come to terms with contact lenses. Well after 2 years I got dry eye syndrome and have been wearing glasses again for 4 years. I'm tempted to go back to contacts, but the process of getting used to messing with my eyes again makes me feel sick.

[@SquishySeaBird]

I have low vision, blind enough that I will never drive and need help reading smaller prints even with my +12.00 contacts, it’s due to a disconnect in the back of my eyes and I’ve been told I will very likely lose my vision when I’m older. The thought that I’m just not open minded enough genuinely cracks me up.

[@BreeBerzerker]

I was looking forward to hearing more about this from you. I have extreme astigmatism and extreme nearsightedness and I wear my glasses full time, it is necessary. When I take my glasses off and set them down my eyesight is so bad that I can't find my glasses. I had an ex (who also wore glasses when necessary, his eyesight was not nearly as bad as mine) who was certain that I was actually really bad for my eyes. No idea where he got this information from he also couldn't tell me exactly where he heard this or picked it up. But he was certain and tried to coerce me multiple times to go a few days every week without my glasses to strengthen my eyesight. He was certain that wearing them full-time had to be bad for my eyesight and that if I went without them more often it would help my eyes. He would even hide my glasses and pretend to look for them with me to encourage me to go without them. It was nothing like this course but it was very similar in the way that he figured eyesI could be improved if we just worked our eyes harder and every time I would get migraines and severe eye strain he would tell me that was good because it meant that my body was working to repair the damage.

[@storageheater]

I am just always blown away by your kindness and consideration. There's so much ableism and complexity to discussions like this, and you make it seem natural. And the treatment of the holistic discussion was so even-handed.

[@hell0mega]

the funniest thing about that lady's video is her eyes. when she takes off her glasses she really looks like she can't focus on her camera. she could see perfectly well but unfortunately her eyes are naturally positioned in a way that tell my brain they are not looking at me/focusing correctly lmao

[@ashleynorton]

The irony of claiming big optometry just wants your money while selling a junk science course

[@RobinPalmerTV]

Fair play to her for having the gall to try to pull off this grift! I wish I had her confidence.

[@vadalia3860]

I admire how you're far more compassionate than I feel towards the idiots who fall for this kind of B.S. While I recognize some people may have medical trauma and a lot of people can't afford medical bills (particularly vision and dental which aren't even usually covered under standard medical insurance), I think there's an a third competent that only got alluded to in this video- the ever increasing anti-intellectualism that's been brewing in the U.S. since around the turn of the century. As we saw with Covid, people want to believe that 3 minutes of googling or reading some mommy-blogger-turned-wellness-influencer's rants can give them a take that's equal in expertise to actual medical professionals. I'm not someone who says to just swallow whatever a doctor says uncritically- I did plenty of research while my mother was fighting Stage 4 cancer (now thankfully in remission!)- but too many people think a decade+ of professional education can be put on the same level as a layperson's opinion & it simply can't.

[@Inna_98]

My mom tried to convince me that wearing glasses made your eyesight worse because your eyes became "lazier," which made me terrified of buying them, but once I was able to afford it the migraines I would get never returned, so I'm not surprised to hear this but it's still very concerning xD

[@Natalia-ex8xi]

It’s giving me at age 12 watching those frequency videos that were supposed to change your eye color

[@sarah30932]

I mean I can kind of relate. I don’t want to see injustice. *Takes glasses off* There. The injustice is gone.

[@Feverm00n]

I really love how you weave in social issues and awareness of the impact of mental health in this video. It was somehow comforting to listen to.

[@Vampress09]

A lot of people covered this topic but no one went so in depth and logical like you. I love your approach. Also you're looking gorgeous.

[@PhoenyxV]

The editing VO with the echo is SENDING me it's giving "narrated thoughts" energy.

[@r.h.1988]

I really appreciate acknowledging medical trauma and how that can lead people to these weird alternative medical treatments and such. Sometimes people get so caught up in how ridiculous these practices are, they forget/ignore why someone would latch onto them in the first place.

[@bryttanie]

On the topic of LASIK, I had it done, one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself. I put it off for so long and finally did the rounds of looking for a place to get it done solely because I’m so anxious and the idea of not being able to see my attacker (it’s how my brain processes life, and I’ve been stalked and harassed enough) that it was a beginning step for my healing. Now for the juicy part: the surgery, big trigger warning it’s hilarious but also gross if you’re squimish… On the first note, on the day of I had to be there early, around 7am to do the financing and pre surgery exams, so my surgery didn’t start until almost noon. When it was time, during the surgery I had to be transferred from one machine to another, which meant I had to get up from my seat and go to the next which were side by side. But because they cut the upper layer of the eye on the first machine, your vision is severely blurred so I needed assistance. The staff helped me and they were great as some classical music played and they were working away. I was starting to get a bit peckish when I heard some beeping sounds and didn’t think much until I smelled something delicious in the air and thought “I wonder what they made themselves for lunch because it smells amazing” And then i realized I wasn’t in a casual clinic where the break room door was open and I could smell someone was warming up their lunch. I was in surgery smelling my eyes essentially cook by the lasers 😂 Thankfully I didn’t shudder or freak out. It ended almost as quickly as it started and I was out the door quickly patiently waiting for my ride and lunch afterwards. All in all I had a wonderful experience and am very thankful to have had the money to afford it.

[@gus29361]

😮 that twist at the end... i was not expecting.

[@potts995]

WHO says they weren’t warming up their lunch and you just luckily managed to escape that day?

[@JOman04]

Hair and makeup on point

[@hulk_sm0sh]

This masterclass changed my life! I am now going to take off my glasses and start driving on the highway! Thanks Swell

[@ew4316]

The intro is 100x as funny in this context

[@rookiekuundere612]

My aunt is an essential oil/mlm hun told me if I “change my mindset” I’ll realize my anaphylactic allergy to peanuts is fake and will go away

[@kristinpatton1018]

You never disappoint. I'm so glad you covered this.

[@threerings13]

As someone who always had better than perfect vision growing up but whose vision is deteriorating as I age, let me encourage everyone to get and use glasses if they think they need them. If you're not trying to read a lot, or you keep upping the font size on the screen you may think you don't actually need them. I just kinda got used to everything on my phone being a little bit blurry. I kinda thought that's how phones were. When I finally started wearing glasses guess what? Those headaches I'd had for years, the eye sensitivity I put down to blue light, all that went away. Not having to constantly strain to see is an amazing relief.

[@cautiousgalaxy4613]

I should have tried this before i did the vison test for my license. I legit didn't see a thing i thought it was broken but it was my eyes that were. Now ill finally be able to see 4 ft in front of me.

[@nikolasscheeks]

i love how timely and pertinent your videos are. you’re always on the cutting edge of internet culture.

[@LynnHermione]

Glasses are cute, these people are so silly. I own contacts and I still wear glasses. The amount of times I have heard people blaming kids with glasses for not seeing because they "read too much/watch too much tv/are on the computer too much/are on their phones too much" INFURIATES me, eyesight problems are GENETIC (unless they're because of injury or such). My own mother blamed my myopia on my "reading too much" until my optometrist shut her up.

[@aimee5340]

it's like we share a twitter feed. it's so perfect. as long as you keep making videos I'll never have to use tiktok or instagram

[@Candy-md1uk]

I know they didn’t think about this because people who consume this type of course tend to not think, but… there’s places with universal healthcare and people still wear glasses. Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper for the countries who benefit less from selling you glasses to teach you to “heal your vision” with positive thinking?

[@TylaStark]

I'd already seen a couple channels talk about this, and I laughed so hard when I saw your video in my feed. Like OF COURSE you took the masterclass. 😂

[@gus29361]

If you ever think to yourself "who would buy that/go to that/experience that?" Swell. Swell would. Idk what it is but she would. More so if you doubted that fact.

[@mse90]

I also find it super telling that while she claims that she wore glasses for years, she never specifies her prescription as far as I could tell. Like, sure, if you have a +/- 0.50 prescription it really doesn't make a ton of a difference whether or not you wear glasses. Do you. My dad supposedly needs glasses, but he never wears them, and he even managed to pass the test during his last medical checkup. It's not that deep. There's a whole spectrum of prescription between that and what I have (which is: not being able to see clearly anything that's further from my own nose). I'm never gonna not need glasses, probably even if I did the surgery, this is just how eyes work, it's not controversial science, everyone at least knows someone with shit eyesight and understands these things. The fact that she made this into a business is absolutely bonkers though.

[@plushdragonteddy]

i mentioned this in a reply to another comment, but it’s a PSA i like to share with all glasses wearers, so it bears repeating: zenni optical has glasses for like $20, and kids’ glasses starting at just $7. just ask your optometrist for your prescription and pupillary distance (which they will try to make hard for you, but feel free to remind them they’re legally required to supply you with that info). it should be criminal to charge hundreds of dollars for some metal, glass, and plastic just because you know people can’t function without it.

[@SophieCord]

Thanks for taking down Big Glasses, you are truly brave! 🤓

[@dragonfire160]

lasik is so spooky. i'm actually not sure if i could go through that again, even tho i'm super happy now that i don't have to bother with glasses and contacts anymore. it doesn't even hurt or anything but that short amount of time in the middle of it where your eyes are open and your sight is just gone freaked me out so much. also recovery kinda sucked

[@NoProHarrie]

Ah yes I could not wear glasses. I would have eternal headaches like I had all my teenage years, not see anything at night, not be able to drive or read but sure... it's a choice 😂

[@galec5305]

Oh my god, unrelated, but your hair-pick-in-the-eye story unlocked a memory and solved a medical mystery for me. A very similar event happened to me when i was 4 involving a metal kebab stick. I completely forgot about it until now... i went to the eye dr yesterday and ive been going every 6 months for the past 3 years because they found a spot on my retina, gotta make sure it's not cancer... it just occured to me that it's probably a scar from getting impaled in the eye as a kid 😂 thanks Swell.

[@knitwit9447]

Ive been wearing glasses since i was in like 3rd grade. I found out my eyesight was shitty because i got in trouble for talking too much in class (i was a classic undiagnosed adhd+autism girlie lol) and my teacher made me stand up in the back of the class and read the rules from the board. I did not know there was anything written on the board. I left my glasses EVERYWHERE and just could not keep up with them. One of my eyes is nearsided, the other is farsided, and i have a different level of astigmatism in both eyes. Also i got some corneal abrasions in my left eye but idk if that affected anything I think the sensory aspect of glasses have made me kind of dislike them, so i got really used to ignoring my eyes and focusing mainly on sound and touch to navigate whenever i could.

[@fungi5350]

I love the idea that it’s just a bunch of people walking around with blurry vision, just pretending their vision is fine lol

[@cha0ticneutralbigs]

Reminder that glasses are a disability aid and low vision or non-20/20 vision is a disability, it’s just seen as a more accepted and destigmatized one because of our access to glasses and the prevalence of the disability. I do think that glasses are ridiculously expensive considering how easy they are to produce and there’s definitely an inaccessible factor to that, I’ve been priced out of glasses many times. Anyways their logic is giving “have you tried not being disabled” and it’s also giving “blind people just don’t want to see”, as a low vis/blind person wtf. Oh my god it got worse, she called her brother a vegetable like that’s a really outdated and offensive mindset and word like you brother can still live a full happy life as a disabled person, no matter how severe the disability we deserve to live and it’s giving eugenics

[@Zielmann633]

I got glasses back in first grade (genetic near-sightedness). When I was 14 or 15 I decided to try to see if I could just like brute-force my eyes to focus on something. So I sat about 3 feet from a screen, took off my glasses, and just concentrated on trying to get the stuff on the screen in focus. After several minutes, I could swear I actually got it to where I could read the text on the screen. Or maybe I was just delusional? But it took an incredible amount of strain to get there. I also lost it almost immediately. And that 3-foot distance was only slightly outside the range where I could read the text without glasses normally. I would doubt it would have been possible to do that with any longer distance. So from my experience I can see how some people might think you could just train yourself to do that longer and longer to where you've effectively 'fixed' your vision through eye exercises. But given how much strain and discomfort there was in getting that to happen for just a split second, I wouldn't be surprised if it came closer to damaging my eyes, not healing them lol. Pain is typically a signal to stop what you're doing lol. I've since had Lasik and it was one of the best decisions I've made, even despite the bit of a panic attack I had right after it was done.