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  • I thought this was how it was supposed to look for years

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  • It took me an... embarrassingly long amount of time to be able to put in and take out contacts. It took multiple long, separate sessions and mental breakdowns to be able to do it. I was similar to you. Couldn't even handle drops in my eyes. But once you finally get it down through all of the freaking out, it's easy as pie. If a ridiculous person like me can do it, you can too!

    Contacts are such a different experience too. You actually have peripheral vision! Never in my life have I had that. Your prescription is exactly the same the entire way around your field of vision. With glasses, you don't have any correction for peripheral vision. And if you have a stronger prescription, you can only really see perfectly outside of the dead center of the lens. Anywhere slightly off center and the correction isn't as good.

    Not to mention with my prescription, I still always see lights as kind of a puff ball at night when I'm wearing glasses. It's not a matter of having the wrong prescription. There is just light distortion from the lenses themselves. With contacts, you don't get this distortion effect and lights don't have the puff ball.

    I wore contacts through my teen years and early 20s. But tbh I eventually stopped and went back to glasses full time. Comfort and flexibility just won out for me...even with all the amazing things that contacts have going for them.

  • Dating

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  • People say this all the time, but I've never really understood it. You can't help who you are attracted to. Do a lot of people just have relationships with people they don't find attractive?

    I don't find like 99.9999% of people attractive. So I never really bothered attempting to date. I don't blame people for it like an incel would...it's just a slightly unfortunate thing that means I'm incompatible with other human beings. The few times I tried, it felt awkward and bad that I couldn't reciprocate what the other person felt. It felt like lying and I'm not really sure what I was supposed to be getting out of something like that.

    Legitimately curious.

  • I thought this was how it was supposed to look for years

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  • As a long time glasses wearer, no it does not mean there is necessarily something wrong with your eyes. Glasses can cause visual aberrations. Lights at night always look a bit like puffballs to me no matter my prescription. Not sure if it's just because my prescription is a bit stronger than most or what. Something about contact lenses makes this go away entirely, but I prefer wearing my glasses for comfort.

  • What is the worst fandom you've ever been a part of?

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  • Do you have a tl;Dr?

  • DNA

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  • Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the "mammillary bodies". It's because it looks like a pair of tits.

  • NSFW

    Ladies of Lemmy, how are your shits on the first day of your period?

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  • Not specifically the first day, no. But in general during my period yes.

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?

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  • Most of the time I just plug in every few days when I get home

    That's literally exactly what I'm talking about. There are a very large, statistically significant number of individuals who do not live in detached, single family homes and cannot put in a charging station at home.

    It doesn't really make sense for those of us without to go sit at a public paid charging station for a couple hours each week when it only takes a few minutes to pump up on gas.

    I think it would be different if these charging stations were in places where people spend a decent chunk of time each week, like the grocery store. But they most often are not.

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  • The salary for one person? That's extraordinary for a discord admin.

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?

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  • Or we don't have a good way to conveniently charge them. This makes up a significant portion of users who would buy an EV. Dunno why everyone peddling EVs always conveniently ignores this.

    Look, I think EVs are a fantastic idea, but if you can't figure out the charging infrastructure, then it doesn't make sense for many of us.

  • Bring back the 99 cent cheesy double beef burrito

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  • Don't you have to use their stupid app for the reduced prices like that now?

  • Bring back the 99 cent cheesy double beef burrito

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  • I remember years ago when I went to order one of those $5 meal boxes at Taco Bell. I asked for it by calling it the "$5 box" or something. The person over the speaker replied with "it's $9 here" lmao. That was pre-COVID and it had been advertised as a $5 box where I was from.

  • What name that's common today do you think will be considered an "old person name" in the future?

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  • Yeah but it seems like some names are always somewhat popular no matter the era. "John" and "James" for example

  • What is the unhealthiest habit you have?

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  • Add me to the unwashed bedsheets club lmao

    It's just so much of an ordeal imo

  • What is the unhealthiest habit you have?

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  • Is it the salsa con queso or just a plain cheese? Because for some reason the salsa con queso jars are like crack to me. I can eat a whole jar in maybe 2 days, so I only purchase it very sparingly lmao.

  • As a passenger in the car, whats the things a driver does that pisses you off, makes you uncomfortable, or terrifies you?

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  • In my experience, people do sometimes do what your husband says. Not everyone, obviously, but a lot of people really are shitty. So I get that to a degree.

    A thing I do actually is that when I'm the first car sitting at a red light and my intention is to turn right, I actually explicitly do NOT use my turn signal. I use it in every other scenario except this one. Because I've found that if I use it, I run into the occasional asshole that decides to blare his horn at me for not immediately turning right and getting into an accident with oncoming traffic. When they don't know whether or not I'm turning or going straight, they don't honk at me like an asshole.

    It's not that I never make right turns on red, it's that I just like to make sure it's safe to do so. I watch oncoming traffic and check the crosswalk for pedestrians. If there is an obstruction to view of traffic (happens occasionally at certain intersections), then yeah I just wait for the green light. But inpatient dipshits don't give a shit because it took them an extra 3 seconds to get to the grocery store.

  • As a passenger in the car, whats the things a driver does that pisses you off, makes you uncomfortable, or terrifies you?

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  • Granted I'm a lifelong loner but...how do you deal with this? I don't know for sure, but I don't think I could ever have a partner who drives so egregiously dangerous. Not only is it dangerous, but it also indicates a severe lack of empathy for other human beings. I don't know how I could reconcile a severe lack of empathy in a partner like that.

    I guess it depends. Does he tailgate out of aggression or because he's not paying attention? Not that one is necessarily better than others, but the intent is different. One just implies stupidity while the other implies lack of empathy.

  • Have you ever met somebody who didn't seem quite human?

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  • What you and others feel and experience is valid. It just became a way for me to feel further alienated from the human race knowing that I didn't fit in with the vast majority of asexuals either.

    One interesting thing I've found is that those in the community are hell bent on defining every single facet of themselves. It becomes a mess and ends up imo not overly helpful for some of us. With others you just have terms like "gay" or "straight" and leave it at that. I've looked up all the definitions before but haven't found them useful. It just made me feel further alienated from the human race seeing as I do not even fit in with the asexuals either.

    I think I just have a problem with the term "asexual". Just look at the breakdown of the word: "a-"-"devoid of" "-sexual"-sex. To me, looking at the word implies a total lack of desire for sex, both in terms of libido (with the self or with others) and sexual/romantic attraction to others. In practice, this is NOT what it means to be asexual. I do understand that this is not what it means for a majority of asexuals. But in that case, I wish they could have picked a different term to claim.

    Not sure if the downvotes above are from me somehow offending asexuals. I don't really see how what I said is overly offensive. Sex and romance are absolutely ubiquitous. I'm surrounded by said media every single day...music, TV, movies, books. And I cannot relate to any of it. I remember being excited the one day I thought I finally found others like me, only to be disheartened by the fact that the vast majority of them are still not like me. It is alienating.

  • Have you ever met somebody who didn't seem quite human?

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  • I had never heard of this before. I googled it and I don't really understand what it is.

  • Have you ever met somebody who didn't seem quite human?

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  • Edit: I'm guessing all of the downvotes are from asexuals I've offended somehow? I don't really get how my personal experience of feeling not quite human is somehow offensive. Romance/sex are literally ubiquitous in media...almost every song, book, movie, etc. involves them in some manner or another. To not be able to relate to something that's literally all around me every single day makes me feel less human than everyone. And to then not be able to relate to the asexual community makes me feel even further away...

    Sometimes I feel like I am a different species of being that isn't quite human. I lack a very core set of feelings and sensations that 99% of humans seem to feel and experience. Not in terms of empathy or compassion or anything like that, so I don't think I'm a psychopath, just a bit different...

    I've found there are others out there like me, but so rare that I've not met another in person.

    For the curious, I'm likely to be considered to be on the asexuality spectrum. But the confusing thing to me is that many asexuals I've spoken to or read about online still seem to experience their own form of attraction and their own sexual urges. So I still don't relate to the majority of them and I find it confusing why they all still consider themselves to be asexual.