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Author: ThreeferFAQMinorityChick

Oct 23rd 2011 at 4:31:32 PM

I wear glasses myself and I know a bit about ''how'' glasses correct vision and the different types of bad but correctable eyesight. If you are farsighted, you can only see things that are farther away from yourself. Henry Beemis from The Twilight Zone is obviously farsighted because when his glasses break, it renders him unable to read and that wouldn't be the case if he was nearsighted. Farsighted vision requires convex lenses, the same type used in magnifying glasses, for correction. If you are nearsighted (such as me), then you are only able to see things if they are in close proximity to yourself. Before I got glasses, I would sit really close to the television set and hold books pretty darn close to my face because that was the only way I could see either thing to derive much enjoyment from them. Glasses that are designed for nearsighted people will have concave lenses.

About being legally blind, the official definition of legal blindness is having visual impairment to such an extent that it can't possibly be corrected to better than 20/200.