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At the age of 33, I still hate wearing glasses. Part of this is probably because I haven't gotten a new pair since 2000, but that's partly because I hate wearing them, not just because they cost $300 or so. Even when I've had money or insurance I've been reluctant to upgrade. I really should, but I just don't think that I'd wear them, so why spend the money?
I have a theory that near-sightedness is more of a consequence of civilization than genetic. I think it's like height, you have the potential but it only comes out if certain factors are in place. This is not a unique theory, that reading in dim light - or just reading a lot in general - ruins your eyes. But in my family, where everyone but me is over 6', the kids who read a lot when young need glasses, the others don't. Don't even ask about the numbers of Opti-Free bottles I saw at Duke.
Despite this, I can't erase the programming of my youth that glasses=nerd. Even funnier, on some level, I have really negative connotations of that term. Granted this is after fully getting into the nerdstyle and subsequently pulling away. Anyone who gets into it can be pardoned afterwards for not liking the subculture, I feel. But the whole experience of getting-into-it-and-rejecting-it doesn't always come across when I say that I think glasses make me look nerdy.
(No, Laural, glasses don't make you look nerdy. Setting up a PDC on Red Hat makes you look nerdy. Ahem.)
(But is it less nerdy or more nerdy to get paid for it?)
I have a theory that near-sightedness is more of a consequence of civilization than genetic. I think it's like height, you have the potential but it only comes out if certain factors are in place. This is not a unique theory, that reading in dim light - or just reading a lot in general - ruins your eyes. But in my family, where everyone but me is over 6', the kids who read a lot when young need glasses, the others don't. Don't even ask about the numbers of Opti-Free bottles I saw at Duke.
Despite this, I can't erase the programming of my youth that glasses=nerd. Even funnier, on some level, I have really negative connotations of that term. Granted this is after fully getting into the nerdstyle and subsequently pulling away. Anyone who gets into it can be pardoned afterwards for not liking the subculture, I feel. But the whole experience of getting-into-it-and-rejecting-it doesn't always come across when I say that I think glasses make me look nerdy.
(No, Laural, glasses don't make you look nerdy. Setting up a PDC on Red Hat makes you look nerdy. Ahem.)
(But is it less nerdy or more nerdy to get paid for it?)
