I'm a Freak

Some years ago, back when I was a teenager, my doctor remarked off hand during an exam, "You know, your eyes are getting better."

I was born with terrible vision. The classic Coke bottles look, cross-eyed, the works. I am farsighted so I've never had a problem seeing without my glasses in the sense that I can wander around and not bump into things, but my eyes cross when my glasses are off which can make my vision a bit funky and of course I can't read :/

Well I've been putting off getting a new contacts prescription forever because I wear +5/+5.75 daily disposables. My current glasses are actually +5/+6 but (at the time at least) nobody carried disposable contacts higher than +5.75. So when I realized I was struggling to see with my +5/+6 pair I knew that I might have to go back to the world of soft contacts (NOOOO!!!!!)

Yesterday I finally sucked it up and went to the eye doctor. I've been squinting all the time, which is a terribly unattractive look really. Unavoidable. I need new glasses.

I tested at +4.5/+5 ... I didn't need a stronger prescription at all. I needed a WEAKER one @_@

Funny thing is, during the exam the doctor ever so casually said "You're lucky you weren't cross eyed as a child."

To which I replied "O.o.... uh, I was-- wait a minute I am ... as far as I know. @_@"

"Hmmm..." said the doctor, like he didn't quite believe me.

Later that night I took out my new contacts and stared in the mirror .... sure enough the eye doesn't cross anymore @____@

Just before I left the doctor's office he said "...And you've never had eye surgery, right?"

It appears, for some reason no one can quite figure out, my vision is getting better as I age instead of worse. This is not unusual with nearsighted people because most people tend to get more farsighted as they age ... but for farsighted people things are only supposed to get worse.

Except they're not.

My new prescription is weird. I feel naked somehow. I can see but everything feels more open and clear. The difference between my vision with my glasses off and with them on used to be so dramatic. From a psychological point of view the stronger lens provided a sense of security. A feeling of "Now I can see" ... I guess it will just take time to get used to the reality that I can actually see much better this way @_@

I just wish I knew why this was happening. There are a number of alarming explanations of improved vision in farsighted people, none of them good ... the scariest of which is diabetes, but best I can tell those types of vision improvements are sudden, dramatic and short-lived. Not a gradual improvement over years...