See, you never know how clearly anyone else can see. Take me for example, walking in with glasses in hand - changing out sunglasses for non, all while juggling access card, lunch bag, and a half dozen doors - maybe you assume that, because of the glasses in my hand I can't see a thing, that I'm just as likely to walk through a wall as a door, or greet the refrigerator. But no, sorry,I see fine really. Have gone weeks without my glasses (when they've been mislaid, or broken - I once lost a pair of glasses in the pocket of my Boy Scout uniform for upwards of three months!) and only wear them because my driver's license says I need to, and because I've grown accustomed to the sharper vision they afford.
It's just cartoon conditioning makes you think that without my glasses I'd be a buffoon, tripping over furniture and feeling around like a blind man. No, it seems that people who need it that badly wear contacts, which ironically lends them a false sense of sightedness. One day they show up in glasses and everyone says, "whoa, I didn't know you needed glasses!" When really, they're worse off than most of us regular glasses wearers who could honestly take 'em or leave 'em most days. But we're the ones that get the reputation for being blind, sightless buffoons, crippled by prescription-strength hardware perched on our noses and ears.
Is there anyone who DOESN'T wear corrective lenses of some kind anymore? I don't know why I assume that anyone does or doesn't these days. I guess it's just not the sort of thing you really think about - how well anyone else can really see. When it comes down to it, we all just see what we see and we learn how to make it work for us. Maybe it's a little fuzzier than what other people are used to, but how are you even supposed to know that?
