jakedeez
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20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
See, the problem I have with the concept of 20/20 as perfect is that it is only a standard. I use to have 20/10 - when I was around 19 I went to the eye doctor because things were getting blury, she told me I had 20/20. I "strongly" disagreed for a few minutes until she check my chart and told me that my vision had been 20/10 before.
She explained that it is all realitive. And I think thats really the point. I think that if someone were born with 20/10, or even 20/30 vision then they would precieve the world fine, until their vision change.
As your vision gets worse, things seem "blury" because they don't look as sharp as they use to.
I was recently asked to describe what 20/10 looks like. The problem is that to me, it just looked normal. It like being color blind (which I am btw, red/green) people use to ask me what things looked like since I was colorblind... how can anyone answer that, I mean, it was normal to me.
Personally I think "perfect vision" is whatever you are comfortable with, and doesn't distract you from what you are trying to do. Perhaps also it can't be worse then your best vision during your life time. But I would guess that someone born with 20/25 or 20/30 would not really think they needed glasses if there vision never got worse. Things would just look normal.
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6/28/2005, 9:16 pm
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
I guess the average guy wouldnt understand since they have never been there. I can use my imagination to try to visualize what 20/10 would look like to someone like me whos never even seen 20/20. If I ever saw 20/10 be it RGP contacts or wavefront lasik this wouldnt look normal but I dont mean it in a bad way. Things would have details I never saw before, the world would be strange and 3-d looking.
Best I can explain is when I was 20/50 and got my first glasses, -1 I was seeing twice as well or 20/25 and I was just amazed how sharp and 3-d everything looked. I never complained much about the 20/50 blur, didnt even realize I was slightly myopic till I had one of those games typical children have and I drew a crude vision chart and bragged to my bro how I could see halfway down the bottom. Well my bro beat me by 2 lines! I was amazed but my bro said he strained and looked it "the right way" so I just shrugged it off. I think most people begin to realize when they cant see the school chalkboard, sometimes not even from the front seat and they dont understand when an ematropic kid says he can see the board just fine from the back of the class. You either say "man you have super vision" or "hmmmm is my vision slipping?" LOL.
I guess the vision someones been used for years is the vision his brain is wired to expect. You were seeing 20/10 for almost 2 decades and still do but with glasses. For you, 20/10 is just "normal" someone whos best vision might be 20/50 with glasses would then set the standard of 20/50 as "normal" for him.
If you get used to your myopia and only wear glasses occasionally, that vision may be your new normal and you may even say things are strange with glasses. My bros an example of this with his -1.5 myopia and 20/60 vision he never wears glasses except to drive and he seems happy with 20/60, to him he says its normal and he can see just fine. If he had always worn glasses then he would be like man 20/60 sucks, I want the 20/20 I see with glasses! However one has no choice but be spoiled by glasses if his vision is bad enough, like mine. I could try to get used to 20/400 but id never be able to do much with anything over a foot away.
20/30+ best corrected=things are sharp and 3-d, overkill in many situations, frankly.
20/40=minimal blur, dont even notice unless im paying attention or test with my eyechart
20/70=mild blur, much less outdoors in bright light, a little distracting indoors in dimly lit rooms or shopping when I cant read the further asiles.
20/100=probably the worse I can live with without having to wear glasses "all the time"
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6/29/2005, 12:52 am
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jakedeez
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
Yeah, I think we pretty much agree. It like you say that 20/100 is the worst you could live with w/o wearing glasses all the time. For me, that would be disabilitating. I mean, I would be unable to handle basic things, like shower - how would I tell shampoo from conditionor :P
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7/10/2005, 12:40 pm
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LOL 20/100 is far from blind reguardless how good or bad your vision was before. Heck even my 20/600 can see around in the shower. Everything is only 3 or 4 feet far for one. Second while I cant see the letters on the bottles from there, each bottle looks different, especially in color. I have actually expermented once and showered the whole way with my eyes completely closed from the time I entered the shower to the time I left the shower and when I was drying off then I opened my eyes. I felt for the soap and shampoo. I opened the cap and smelled if I was using shampoo then smelled again for conditioner. It was much more simple than I thought. Even blind people can shower.
Hey do you know anyone with reading glasses? Or go to a store and try different powers this will simulate what a myopic blur is like. Try on +2 readers and youll simulate about 20/100, try on +3 to +3.5 and youd be simulating 20/200! Of course you might feel a little dizzy, I used to back when I was a litle kid and I tried my mom or dads glasses everything was a blur and I got dizzy just walking around. Funny thing now I can move around and feel just fine without glasses infact my -4 contacts which give me an easy 20/40 vision made me a little dizzy!
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7/10/2005, 4:45 pm
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I'll just say for human standards 20/20 is perfect because natural standards we can't control. If your an evolutionist picture what would happen to people back then who had bad vision. They died
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7/18/2005, 11:10 pm
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Myope5
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
You are right on this. A slight vision impairment may not affect them much but if they are half blind or especially completely blind they of course could not get their own food and starved unless their family or friends feed them.
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7/18/2005, 11:23 pm
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
Think of it like this. 20/20 is a standard. Like all standards, they can raise the bar, but leave it so, to seem that everything is getting along fine.
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
Yeah you're right I also thought 20/20 was perfect vision until I realized what 20/10 would mean so I looked it up. Turns out 20/20 is just normal vision and that "perfect vision" is 20/10.
How cool is it that you have 20/10 vision. Thank God I have good eyesight. I'm not sure if I have 20/20 or 20/10 though. I've had it check before and I had 20/20. Could I try checking if I have 20/10 vision with Snellen Chart?
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Re: 20/20 Isn't Really "Perfect" IMHO
Why not? 20/10 vision would be fantastic. I hope that you can read that line.
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2/18/2015, 12:41 am
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