Dumbing of Age

And the diagnosis is in

Hopefully they can get her at least some "close to" lenses immediately... it usually takes weeks for mine to come in, but for patients who have it really bad (and don't have another set of glasses to use), it's not horribly uncommon for them to have lenses and/or complete sets of glasses that were not picked up by prior customers that can be used as loaners.

Last time I went for new glasses, I got my lenses in two days. I guess it depends on their current workload and level of service they provide.

I usually get within the same day, but it does depend on a lot of stuff. And sometimes they are like well we have one set of lenses that fits you I guess.

Edited by phantom1 on Jan 8th 2021 at 3:10:12 AM

I wonder what would be stronger, Joyce's aversion to wearing glasses or her aversion to attaching small piece of plastic directly to her eye.

If she's this much of a baby about the air puff test, definitely the latter.

no way she's getting contacts.

Okay, correction. There is a possibility where she gets contacts because she doesn't want a change of image and never wears them because she can't. But Dorothy would also shoot that idea down.

Edited by Adannor on Jan 8th 2021 at 3:29:27 PM

It’s so weird seeing multiple people giving her problems for having trouble with the test.

Being forced to stare into something you know is going to blast you in the eye isn’t exactly easy.

Wasn't that an episode of Daria?

Through a Lens Darkly, the season 3 premiere.

I miss that show.

I also hated that test. I am way to much of a wimp to put in contacts as well, I had glasses since I was 11 though, so used to them, attached to my face was nothing to, wait this also changed my close up vision, I am having to figure out how distance works again thing.

I find myself in a kinda weird position in relation to your comments. I take air puff test with 0 trouble, but the idea of contacts freaks me out.

I've been wearing contacts this year (to avoid mask-generated fog). I can't put them in unless I look away, which is awkward but I involuntarily blink if I don't.

And then she only starts wearing them when she needs to see something far away

...you know, with the way Joyce's nose is slanted, it's like her face was made to wear glasses.

Funny thing! I find myself in a very similar yet completely opposite position in relation to the comments! As mentioned earlier, I very much sympathize with Joyce RE: the air test. But contacts?

I wear them.

I can put them in in literally seconds.

Without a mirror for aid.

I've actually freaked out a couple people with this ability.

Back to the comic at hand, I'm still a bit unclear on why Joyce is this freaked out about the prospect of glasses? Like I see that she's saying why she doesn't want them, but...what's the deeper psychological reason for this? An aspect of her upbringing or what?

She is madly insecure about concept of Things Changing. Any things.

I had a similar, or even worse, reaction to learning I needed glasses when I was 27 years old. It really can feel like you've lost agency over your face and image.

Man, if I was Dorothy I'd be a little bit offended. "Oh no, wearing glasses is such a horrible fate, I couldn't stand to have people think of me as a person who wears glasses!"

Like, I understand why Joyce is being the way she is, and going straight from 'no glasses' to 'here pick out frames immediately' is a little rushed.

But still, it's fairly tone-deaf to say that the prospect of wearing glasses permanently is 'horrifying' to a person who wears glasses permanently.

I'd say you look more like your sister

Honestly, she's not wrong about accepting inconvenience as just being the norm, and therefore accepted.

That said, glasses are perfectly normal.

I'm of the opinion that glasses make any face look cuter, personally

I'd say not being able to see properly is more of an inconvenience than having a slight pinch on your nose bridge, but to each their own.

Don't like the look of those specific glasses on her, though. Dunno why, they just don't seem to fit that well. Or maybe it's the face she's making while wearing them that makes it look weird to me.

Those glasses look good on her!

Personalty I dislike my glasses, they suit me, but they draw attention from my favourite parts of my face and the bits I identify with most. I've been trying for a year to find an opticians willing to give me a contact lenses prescription during covid.

I’m not huge on the shape of them, but that’s because I pretty much never like the look of oval shaped frames.

I’m curious to see if we’ll get a whole glasses montage.

Edit: I definitely like the way I look with glasses, but, to be fair, I’ve worn them for most of my life? My current ones are a pair of cat-eye frames, which match my sense of style really well.

Edited by smokeycut on Jan 10th 2021 at 7:49:53 AM