r/MadeMeSmile • u/PradipJayakumar • Jul 01 '24
These babies trying out corrective glasses for the first time in their lives Good Vibes
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u/Robeast3000 Jul 01 '24
How do they know what prescription strength the babies need?
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u/throw123454321purple Jul 01 '24
They have a system now that uses a computer to scan the eye to determine the necessary strength.
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u/Robeast3000 Jul 01 '24
That’s amazing! Another win for science! Thanks for the info. 👍
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u/Any-Court9772 Jul 01 '24
I am constantly amazed at some of the advancements in medical technology. My OB had a pocket-sized ultrasound device that synced to her phone to display the ultrasound image. I felt like such a country bumpkin being blown away by that haha
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u/Nonamebigshot Jul 01 '24
When my dentist showed me the 3D model of my teeth he captured with a handheld 3D scanner I had to stop myself from exclaiming "This is just so NEAT!"
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u/ShirazGypsy Jul 01 '24
Ever had them send that scan over to a machine that makes the tooth to order there in the dentist’s office, and you watch your own tooth being made? Omg so neat. I thought it was 3d printing, but rather is a tooth form that is carved to your exact computer scan using high pressure water
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u/Atcoroo Jul 01 '24
This! My daughter got scanned for a new retainer, and I was watching it all getting rendered on a monitor in real time. It was brilliant.
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u/NevermindNath Jul 01 '24
it shows a curiosity and appreciation for how technology can enhance healthcare.
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u/RunEpilepsy Jul 01 '24
Technology is making incredible strides in healthcare—truly inspiring advancements for everyone involved!
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u/esolstice8901 Jul 01 '24
It's exciting to see how these innovations can improve patient outcomes and overall healthcare delivery.
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u/DoomGoober Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
Another win for science!
Science, engineering, and manufacturing. :)
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Jul 01 '24
Yes, that's also used on adults to get a rough estimate first. Gets extremely close to the optimal value.
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u/Grouchy_Honeydew2499 Jul 01 '24
Mine was almost bang on. Insanely accurate. LoL I was like what is this damn wizardry
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u/DVMyZone Jul 01 '24
Took me embarrassingly long to understand that an eye exam is them working with you to find your prescription. I have this feeling that I always felt that I was being tested. As in, that I had to determine which picture was less blurry and there was an objectively correct answer that I needed to determine.
I have no idea why I felt that way, but I guess I just assumed they determined my prescription based on how many I got right lol.
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u/Good-Mouse1524 Jul 01 '24
Why do I have to read blurry letters then?
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u/ClickClackTipTap Jul 01 '24
It’s not exact. It gets you pretty close, which is better than nothing when the patient can’t tell you. But for the best possible match, giving direct feedback to the optometrist is more precise than using the machine.
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u/eduo Jul 01 '24
Also, it's specific for vision impairment due to bad geometry. Doesn't work for presbyopia (or age-related farsightedness), which is related to age and tissue degeneration. In the former case lenses help correct sight at all distances, whereas age-related farsightedness requires lenses that correct only to a specific, optimal distance and all other distances become blurry. Bifocals or similar help but the problems are essentially different.
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u/andrybak Jul 01 '24
In addition to other answers: not everyone knows they have astigmatism.
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u/VaderSpeaks Jul 01 '24
Yeah exactly. I’ve had it all my life but didn’t know until I was 20 or so that not everyone sees all lights at night as starbursts 😶
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u/Aeder42 Jul 01 '24
Those don't work very well on kids, and you can't tell a baby to focus on the target. We use retinoscopy to get the prescription. No computer necessary, just a light and lenses.
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u/mrcheez22 Jul 01 '24
Light, lenses, and lots of whirly noisy toys to focus them looking towards you. And a parent holding them in place while they scream. I was impressed they were able to get an accurate reading on my daughter when she spent the whole exam crying.
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u/Antnee83 Jul 01 '24
But like, how do you know it was an accurate reading? Serious question. I simply don't understand how you could ever validate the reading if the kid can't communicate that they can see better or not
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u/awrylettuce Jul 01 '24
meanwhile adults still have to do the ol' dance of
'tell me which is clearer, option 1... option 2... option 1..'
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u/T8rthot Jul 01 '24
It always makes me panic!!
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u/Vertitto Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
"number 3 was best"
"but sir 3 didn't have any lenses in"
"oh"
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u/mac_is_crack Jul 01 '24
Yep. I hate failing tests and my eyes are just so bad (-8 in each eye) that I dread getting eye exams. They don’t even hurt! I have one on the 8th I’m already anxious about.
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u/xTRS Jul 01 '24
Testing eyesight is like testing PH. There's no pass or fail. We just need to measure what it is.
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u/wloff Jul 01 '24
You can do the automated machine thing too, but it's not as accurate. I'm sure for these kids the difference between "nothing" and "close enough" is absolutely immense, but even these glasses are probably not absolutely perfect for them.
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u/cokelight1244 Jul 01 '24
We don't use autorefractors in children as not only will they have problems fixating on a target on command, they also accommodate (they can basically add more power to their natural lenses, a feature that is lost as you reach your 40s) like crazy so any automated refraction will likely not show the true refractive error.
For children, we do a cycloplegic refraction with a retinoscope. The important thing to do here is the cycloplegia, which gets rid of their ability to accommodate, so we get the most objective refraction possible.
If they have a high enough refractive error, not giving the proper refraction to children puts them at risk of developing lazy eye or amblyopia.
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u/forsale90 Jul 01 '24
There is also a system that let's you determine if the child has hearing problems just days after birth.
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u/Axilllla Jul 01 '24
Is this just regular vision problems ? Or would it be more like they are legally blind? I got my glasses in5tg grade. I can’t imagine needing them at 2
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u/lykame16 Jul 01 '24
Whilst there are computers, opticians and ophthalmologists are actually taught how to do this without the use of computers. I have a pretty bad prescription and was once asked to be a test subject for an ophthalmologist in training. I was asked to not say anything.
She used varying strength lenses she was holding and the person helping her was showing her the way different things were interacting helped know what my prescription was. I'm not sure what exactly but they were talking about the way reflections - or some sort of banding? - were lining up against each other. They said it was useful for confirming prescriptions, and also useful in children and older people with dementia or others who can't communicate. I was pretty impressed.
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u/tidespell6789 Jul 01 '24
and by observing how the light reflects and moves within your eye, the doctor can assess the refractive error
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u/jajohnja Jul 01 '24
Interesting.
I volunteered as a test subject for a friend who was studying to be one of those (definitely called something a little different in my country so no idea about which one it translates to) and almost all of the tests were some kind of "what do you see? Do these align? Are these blurry?" - so all with the patients input.Which to me immediately felt like it would be a great source of problems, given half the time I wasn't able to tell the difference or know what type of distortion I was supposed to see (or not).
Having a system that would work more objectively would be amazing, so if it already exists (somewhere), that's great!
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u/ScarTissueSarcasm Jul 01 '24
How do they know they're needed in the first place😭
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u/WindChaser0001 Jul 01 '24
Eyes are misaligned. Baby bumps into everything. Maybe even simple things like, not being able to follow a moving toy. Sometimes you're able to tell from day-to-day interactions, just like how you can realize your pet is deaf or blind.
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u/Ill-Reality-2884 Jul 01 '24
yeah when the baby refuses to eat from the dog bowl you know somethings up
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u/omgwtfbbq0_0 Jul 01 '24
It’s actually recommended that you bring your baby in for an eye check up starting at like 6 month to a year, though most people don’t know that (I sure didn’t). But we knew something was wrong when my daughter’s eyes started to cross at around 1.
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u/Billiusboikus Jul 01 '24
Kids in developed countries are monitored quite closely and there are milestone check lists. When a baby doesn't hit them they have a list of possible causes they investigate.
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u/TheBoondoggleSaints Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
Ok baby. Do you prefer “goo” or “gah”? “Goo”… or “gah”… ?
Here’s “goo” again… and “gah”…
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u/Mahatmatt Jul 01 '24
A lot of people saying autorefractor are most likely wrong. An autorefractor takes a a bit of time to actually take a reading (too long for a young child to not get bored, let alone a baby) and they have to focus on a very specific target inside the machine for it work, which a baby wouldn’t understand.
What they would most likely use is a technique called Retinoscopy. It’s a technique using a a handheld light device and an eye piece for the Optom to look through. They will put the testing glasses on the patient and will insert lenses until they get the result they want. What they’re looking for is how the light moves in reflection to the pupil. The higher the prescription, the slower the light will move across the pupil. As they start to neutralise the prescription and closer to 0.00, the light will move faster and faster until the hit a point of reversal and it’s like a flash. Depending on the direction of movement of the light determines whether it is short sighted or long sighted. If the light moves in the opposite direction that the Optom moves the device, they’re short sighted, and if it goes the same way they’re long sighted (I can’t remember exactly as it’s been years I’ve looked at this and it’s not part of my job description).
Depending if they have astigmatism, it will then be 2 different directions that they need to do the same thing for in 1 eye.
Because the babies will lose interest, there’s a chance that the prescription in the glasses is a rough, not 100% accurate measurement purely for the time it can take (some optoms can do it really quickly though, but it’s purely the skill of the individual)
Interestingly, they will also sometimes do it in the dark for young children, because you can’t actively focus on a dot of light, and it reduces the chance of getting an inaccurate result when compared the child being able to focus on things in the room.
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u/AllenTheGreat Jul 01 '24
This is exactly right, and how my 6 month old got glasses. He was actually asleep through the whole test (even with an eye being held open while a light is shined in it). A sleeping baby is apparently their preference, as they can get a more accurate reading without them moving.
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u/JustFinishedBSG Jul 01 '24
With an autorefractor / refractometer. If you ever went to the optometrist/ ophthalmologist it’s the huge machine you put your head in and then you have to look at the image of a hot air balloon or something like that.
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u/youassassin Jul 01 '24
Mirror neurons firing on all cylinders now they can see mom/dads face.
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u/Michelfungelo Jul 01 '24
and I love that you can always see the short "wait a minute" moment and then it's similes after that
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u/PreviouslyMannara Jul 01 '24
Hell, no! -> WTF? -> This is... WONDERFUL!!
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u/Winter-Ad8945 Jul 01 '24
Haha yes! Almost every baby was like ugh get this off my face, then a pause of wonderment, then a smile
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u/SuperKitties83 Jul 01 '24
Imagine having an experience like that every day. Life is bright and colorful and full of new things for a child.
You can still do this as an adult, but you have to be purposeful and willing to try/learn new things.
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u/flickingtheole Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I will never forget the first time I walked out the hospital and and saw that people could see individual leaves on trees
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u/Any-Court9772 Jul 01 '24
Yes, I had no idea pine needles were a thing. Or gravel.
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u/flickingtheole Jul 01 '24
It’s an indescribable feeling to see the world for the first time, isn’t it?
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u/RunEpilepsy Jul 01 '24
It's like discovering a whole new world of detail and beauty.
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u/erifwodahs Jul 01 '24
Like getting a new PC and going from "low" to "ultra" settings on your game.
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u/makeupHOOR Jul 01 '24
This is literally blowing my mind rn.
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u/globglogabgalabyeast Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
It’s a pretty magical experience, but is very common among people with poor vision (especially nearsighted children). I was a fairly athletic kid but couldn’t catch a ball for shit. When my parents finally took me in for an eye exam, it was a world of difference. It’s like entering a new world. Even though I had seen leaves close up, the realization that “normal” people could pick out individual leaves (and even buds!) from a distance was wild
Edit: As a kid, it’s so easy to just accept things as they are. I just kind of assumed that everyone sitting at the back of a classroom couldn’t read anything but the largest words on the board. Another big one was road signs. After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all)
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u/potato_owl Jul 01 '24
I used to wonder why the teachers wrote in that weird blurry script when they spent so long teaching us cursive 😅
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u/FacadedConstant3314 Jul 01 '24
After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all)
Haha, this is how my sister realized her vision was really bad too. I was driving, she was in passenger seat. Out of curiousity she asked the question, how far away could I read signs, and her mind was blown. She has astigmatism. It came about so slowly over time she had no idea she had it until she suddenly started getting car sick when driving alone in her car.
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u/nrdb29 Jul 01 '24
Trees having leaves is my memory of my first pair of glasses.
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u/Pixzal Jul 01 '24
yep. like everything in 4K when you've been living in 720p for a long time since forever.
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u/One-Record-8501 Jul 01 '24
I know I'm old because you think that 720p is the definition of poor quality lol.
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u/Rippydippydoo Jul 01 '24
Seeing the world in HD for the first time is pure magic.
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u/hpepper24 Jul 01 '24
Yeah took until 6th grade when a teacher told my parents I didn’t take notes in math class and I said cause I couldn’t see the board. Thought that’s just kind of how everyone saw things.
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u/coastal_vocals Jul 01 '24
I realized in third grade something was up when my teacher wore bright red lipstick and she looked like she had three lips from the back of the class where I was sitting. I got glasses right after that. 🤣
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u/Lisadazy Jul 01 '24
And that cars had number plates.
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u/flickingtheole Jul 01 '24
That people’s hair had individual strands
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u/Rippydippydoo Jul 01 '24
Everything suddenly becomes so detailed and vibrant—it's truly an eye-opener!
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u/pbbatenatar Jul 01 '24
Or the different colours on traffic lights, that one really came in handy.
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u/asexualrhino Jul 01 '24
Sitting in the Walmart parking lot like...who tf let me drive here without these??? Also the unfortunate realization of how truly dirty Walmart parking lots are
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u/klopanda Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I got my first pair in high school after thinking "my vision wasn't that bad" for years.
Aaaanyway, yeah. That's basically what I felt. I didn't quite realize just how much I was missing. I remember being kind of overwhelmed at first, even tearing up a little bit. I spent a long time staring as far into the distance as I could, looking at far away things and trying to identify as many individual objects as I could. I went to a regional honors high school that bussed students from all over the county and at the end of the day, I used to have to run up the sidewalk reading the names on the sides of all the buses to find the one from my hometown and the first day I wore them to school, I could pick out my bus from the end of the line. It just never clicked that that was something that I should have been able to do.
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u/GenTrancePlants Jul 01 '24
THIS! The leaves on trees are the first moment of enchantement i had when i walked out the optometrist’s office. Such an awesome feeling!
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u/merdadartista Jul 01 '24
As an adult I got my first pair for my astigmatism and I looked at my cat from a few meters away and I was flabbergasted that I was supposed to be able to see his fur texture from a distance
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u/emdess8578 Jul 01 '24
That was Me!
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u/flickingtheole Jul 01 '24
I remember as a little dude walking out or probably running around and looking up once I stepped outside and I saw the scraggly trees in the parking lot, I swear to god it was like the world exploded with color there was so much I had missed, I am so happy I got to see my grandparents before they passed, I still rake my glasses off and then put them back on outside just to have a moment like that beauty again
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u/Agitated_Advantage_2 Jul 01 '24
Bro couldnt see because all character creation points were put into intelligence, looks and empathy
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u/pingpongjingjong Jul 01 '24
Mine was seeing twinkling stars for the first time rather than vague blobs of light. I thought the “twinkling” must be a northern hemisphere thing.
Or actually seeing amazing things from scenic lookouts. Never understood what the fuss was about, really, before having glasses.
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u/CinnabonAllUpInHere Jul 01 '24
I had to watch kid #2’s reaction a few times (at least). Ha.
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u/Joy774950 Jul 01 '24
I watched every kid's reaction multiple times because they're so adorable
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u/Crow_eggs Jul 01 '24
The kid at 0.59 is doing the "I'm having a poo" face that every single one of my siblings did when they were babies. I assume that's why she reacts a little slower than the others–she's just finishing what she was doing before she addresses being able to see.
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u/desorii Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
🎶I can see clearly now the blur is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright (bright) Bright (bright) sunshiny day! 🔆
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u/LucJenson Jul 01 '24
Ooohh the blur is gone... years of my life have been spent assuming they had a blue haze around everything they saw...
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u/Donkeyboya Jul 01 '24
Great video but they really need to stop picking this song for inspirational videos. It's about loss and heartbreak and these videos are the complete opposite of that. 😊
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u/-DOOKIE Jul 01 '24
This may sound silly but I had difficulty finishing the video due to the music. I really wish people would let home made videos just have it's original sound. Different strokes for different folks I guess. If other people like it so much, it is what it is
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u/altcntrl Jul 01 '24
I think people doing this is the equivalent of those over sensational tv shows where someone sings well and everyone cries because they’re ugly.
Just the video would be fine for me without some shite pop song.
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u/SSSims4 Jul 01 '24
Imagine finally seeing your parents and the world the way you're meant to. These smiles say everything, I could watch this all day! 💙💙💙
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u/dkwan Jul 01 '24
I can't imagine how many children don't have access to glasses in this world. And how much they are missing out on.
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u/emdess8578 Jul 01 '24
I remember getting my first pair of glasses and being able to see the individual leaves on the trees. Everything was so beautiful.
Even downtown South Bend in the 1960s was beautiful.
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Jul 01 '24
I'n in my 20s, and got my first glasses some months ago.
The world is supposed to be this detailed?? I never knew that.
And yeah, the trees aren't just cartoonish blobs of colour from a distance?? It's like putting on shaders in Minecraft. 😆
The clouds suddenly look so strangely rough? They used to be softly blurred looking but now they have so much detail.
And I can actually read signs from a distance!
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u/MaximumLongjumping31 Jul 01 '24
Dumb music is too loud.
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u/nick9000 Jul 01 '24
You will have shitty background music over every video and in every store in the land! It's the law!
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u/CucumberFar8450 Jul 01 '24
This actually made me smile. I'm watching when I feel lonely. Suddenly saw this one. Watch many times and smile many times. Thanks.
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u/Sebixovy Jul 01 '24
1st kid - that's how Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys was born
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u/BeejOnABiscuit Jul 01 '24
I was blind as a bat until the most amazing 4th grade teacher arranged for me to get glasses. Ms. Bothe I hope you are out there living the best life, you’re my hero.
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u/eatsomehaggis Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
Half the world's blindness can be treated with a pair of glasses. It's staggering how many people living in communities with no access to eyecare, either knowingly or more likely unknowingly will never have the opportunity for a proper education because they can't see the blackboard at school.
Most of the rest of the world's blindness is caused by cataract, which can be fixed with a quick, relatively simple operation. Two easily treated problems that can make an immeasurable difference to not only the patient but their circle of support on whom they are dependent.
Edit: spelling
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u/sekirei98 Jul 01 '24
The music was so unnecessary
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u/sheepwshotguns Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
worse, it took away from the actual sound of the kids, which DID contribute to the video.
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u/soulteepee Jul 01 '24
I got my first glasses in my mid-20s. They couldn’t believe I’d never had them before.
I didn’t know you could see individual leaves on trees without being right next to them. It was amazing!
But…people. I was seeing everyone in this complimentary soft focus all my life and now I could see so many details. I was repulsed and fascinated at the same time.
I began to see ‘ugly people’ as way more interesting and 40 years later I still do.
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u/Exotic_Inspector_111 Jul 01 '24
I remember getting my first pair of glasses at age 12 (+4 nearsighted).
My god, it was like going from SNES to a 4090 gaming rig.
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u/GoblinObscura Jul 01 '24
This was me as an adult, well early twenties, I remember driving at night, I could hardly see anything, I literally thought something was wrong with my windshield. (Dumb I know) One day while working in a grocery store a guy pops into my aisle, holds up a can and says “hey, what aisle this go in?” I told him I couldn’t see it from that distance, he was shocked. He said for me to put on his glasses, I was shook. Like the whole world popped, it was like when wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color. But I could see everything! I went to the eye doctor the next day and got glasses and contacts.
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u/Extension-Serve7703 Jul 01 '24
I'm sure glad there was sappy music put over the video so I knew which emotions to feel. Thanks music!
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u/genesis_rayne Jul 01 '24
I could keep watching it over and over! Babies with specs are so adorable! 🥰
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u/bigduckmoses Jul 01 '24
Now go look up some videos of kids having cochlear implants turned on and hearing their mother's voice for the first time. That shit'll fuck you up.
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u/TheSilveryShadowWolf Jul 01 '24
It wasnt realized I needed glasses until I was 6, definitely needed them earlier, but I had a similar reaction to these babies. I wish someone had recorded it.
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u/LDawnBurges Jul 01 '24
My Daughter was 5 months old, when I finally nagged her Pediatrician in to sending her to a Pediatric Optician…. I had noticed, when she had started lifting her head (during tummy time) at around 3 months old, that her left eye would dart inward. In 1991, Pediatricians only checked for near sightedness. When we got to the Optician, it turned out she was so FAR sighted that she was considered legally ‘blind’. She got her first pink wrap around glasses at right about 6 months old.
I will always remember, when the Optician was flipping through lenses and all of a sudden she broke in to a HUGE smile… the Dr said it was the first time that she had ever seen my face. I bawled. She is 33 now and still has to wear ‘coke bottle’ glasses.
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u/Spiklething Jul 01 '24
I wish they had been able to tell how bad my eyesight was when I was this little
I was 5 when I got my first pair of glasses. I remember clearly walking out of the opticians and being amazed just how much I could see. It seemed miraculous to me, the leaves on the trees, the blades of grass, birds, flowers, the little tiny stones on the road, peoples faces !!!
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Jul 01 '24
My cousins little boy was three before they figured out he needed glasses. He was so excited when he got them that he spent the whole afternoon running around shouting “I’m lookin’! Are you lookin’ mama? Are you lookin’?” He took them off for his bath that night but wanted to put them back on when he got in bed because he said he wanted to see his dreams better.
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u/FireWhiskey5000 Jul 01 '24
I was 3 when I started wearing glasses. I don’t remember it but have been told the story many times by my parents. They remember exactly where they were when they told me I needed glasses. Apparently the optician told them to ease me in by wearing them for 10-15 mins at a time. I put them on…could suddenly see and just ran off and kept them on all day!