21 Hilarious Signs You Grew Up With Glasses | HuffPost Life

Growing up with glasses was far from glamorous. Like, REALLY REALLY FAR from glamorous. Although you can’t say exactly how far because, like, you don’t have 20/20 vision. But you guys get the point. The struggle was real.

It was impossible to find a comfortable position while watching TV.

3-D movies always meant double the fun for you.

You legit had no clue how much detail there was in the world until you got glasses.

Applying eye makeup was risky business since it required removing your glasses AKA your ability to see what the hell you were doing.

Eating warm, steamy food also meant going temporarily blind.

Rain, snow, and basically any drastic temperature change were all your worst enemy.

People were so used to your glasses that if you ever took them off, they got weirded out.

Some people preferred you sans glasses, as if your only means to see out of your eyeballs was some sort of fashion choice.

You grew so attached to your glasses that even when you didn't wear them, you felt their presence.

You HATED when friends with perfect vision tried your glasses on as if you didn't need them to function and live your damn life.

And it was the absolute WORST when people smudged the lenses.

It baffled you that asking how many fingers you saw was considered an accurate measurement of your terrible eyesight.

Like, s**t was blurry but you weren't hallucinating that people had extra fingers.

Visits to the eye doctor were like the goddamn optical Olympics for squinting.

And let's not even get into how borderline traumatic some of those check-up appointments were.

You were fairly certain this was some form of torture device from the future.

The level of frustration when you weren't wearing the right material to clean your lenses was UNREAL.

Photos were no walk in the park with all that glare on your lenses.

You never understood the whole stereotype that glasses automatically make people appear "smarter."

You avoided looking at people whenever you forgot your glasses because you could not tell them apart. And that got VERY awkward.

There was no point trying to be being sneaky when the reflection on your lenses gave away your every move.

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