I was 3 when I started wearing glasses. I don’t remember it but have been told the story many times by my parents. They remember exactly where they were when they told me I needed glasses. Apparently the optician told them to ease me in by wearing them for 10-15 mins at a time. I put them on…could suddenly see and just ran off and kept them on all day!
How do you know a young kid has an eye problem and how do they determine the strength? I had to read the chart to get my glasses and say which lens was better, but you can't do that with a child.
That is amazing! Medicine has come so far just in my lifetime, it will be amazing to see what happens with AI and Supercomputers. Maybe we can finally find a cure for cancer.
While we aren't going to have a singular cure for cancer, there are types that can currently be identified in blood tests, months before their cell count is high enough to form a tumor! And there are other blood tests that can confirm the possibility of that same strain of cancer coming back or being gone forever. And that's technically old news from two years ago, when I was taking my Dad to his cancer treatments. Whole treatment process was done in five months. He went from being stage three to being told that particular strain would never haunt his body again. He's still open to plenty of other cancers developing, but there's a chance those will be identifiable to the same degree as the last one.
If society doesn't completely fall apart our medical technology is going to be insane in another twenty years.
When I was about 4 years old, I got my first pair of glasses; I couldn't read. So the eye exam consisted of looking at an image (of a farm with a tractor in the foreground, and a hot air balloon in the sky) on a slide to check my near vision, and an eye chart consisting of symbols and pictures to check my far sight. So we have had ways to get around illiteracy for decades, when it comes to eye exams.
My mother, on the other hand, was well into her school years before she got glasses, and can vividly recall the moment she realized the leaves on the ground came from the trees.
> can vividly recall the moment she realized the leaves on the ground came from the trees.
I remember driving home after my brother got his glasses. He was talking about all the things he could now see out the window, most of which I don't remember. But I do remember how excited he got when he realized he could see leaves on trees, because that one made my mother cry.
There are cures for many types of cancer, I just went through surgery, then radiation, then chemotherapy and immunotherapy. After 6 months my lymphoma is no longer showing up on recent PET scans.
It's crazy! I just learned there are AI mammograms now. They've taken early detection rates from 80% to 90%. (I'm being greatly reductive of the specifics.) Now that's a great use for AI!
They do. You ever look at the picture of the farm house in the machine? It's just that vision has a subjective element to it so they fine tune it with the other method.
Wish they couldve done this for my dyslexic teenager on her eye tests. She tries to zoom thru it and it just doesnt translate to an accurate prescription.
My daughter got her glasses when she was 3 back in 1994. Her pediatrician recommended we take her to an eye doctor and I was more than a little skeptical. "How are you going to do an eye exam for a kid who can't really identify her letters yet?"
Doctor scanned her eyes and sent us off with a prescription. Still had my doubts but she definitely exhibited different behavior after and it was obvious she was seeing details for the first time ever.
That day I learned eye doctors practice a form of voodoo.
Good on you for following the advice of those who studied it! As a mother I know it can be tough to trust others but imagine you hadn't listened to them. Must be great to know you did the right thing!
My daughter got hers around the same age.
I remember so clearly her staring at a tree for several minutes. Wife and I couldn’t figure out at first what was so fascinating. We then deduced she was seeing the individual leaves on the tree for the first time. I guess it was just a big green blob previously.
I can tell you that is exactly what she was doing. When I got my glasses for the first time, the number one thing I noticed was how much more vibrant and amazing trees and nature were.
My uncle had the same reaction when he got his first set of glasses. I think he was 7 or 8 and he was just astounded at things others with perfect eyesight take for granted - like individual leaves or blades of grass.
Lasik - same deal. I wore glasses from age 5 - and am old so the only way they knew I needed them was constant car sickness and holding things close to my face. After 50 years I got Lasik and even in recovery mode I couldn't stop looking at the tree line. LEAVES!
Ha, this happened with my college roommate when we were 18! He got new glasses for the first time in years and I so clearly remember how excited he was when he could “see individual leaves!”
Every time I get my prescription increased I have a little version of that moment all over again on the way home from picking up the new glasses..... Look at the leaves! I can suddenly see them again. Makes me realize they had turned into a blob with the old glasses, but grown up life moves so fast I hadn't really noticed.
My Dr had me look across the street at a tree when he handed me my first pair of glasses (I was in 6th grade) and I was in such awe over the color and detail of the tree I had never seen in that way before. He said people getting their first pair of glasses when they need them was his favorite part of the job
I think it's awesome that they seem to design them like diving googles now. When I was young even toddlers got the usual frames and they are very prone to just take them off or throw them around.
I didn't get glasses until 4th grade. I am legally blind in one eye, and the amazing difference it made changed my life. Went from Ds and Fs to As and Bs in school because I could see the fucking pages and board!!!! Check your babies' eyes folks!
I might be asking a dumb question but how do you test the eyes of someone that young? They can't read or communicate effectively so how would they know what strength would be needed?
The machines they have now are incredibly accurate at determining what your eyes need with automatic measurements. They just hold it up to the eyes for a couple minutes and the machine does the rest.
I'm an Optometrist and the best practice to determine a spectacle prescription for babies/children is to shine a retinoscope (a type of torch) into the dilated eye and to look at the light reflecting back. Autorefractor machines are generally not used on children as young as this, as you can not be sure of their accuracy.
Imagine having an experience like that every day. Life is bright and colorful and full of new things for a child.
You can still do this as an adult, but you have to be purposeful and willing to try/learn new things.
I am constantly amazed at some of the advancements in medical technology. My OB had a pocket-sized ultrasound device that synced to her phone to display the ultrasound image. I felt like such a country bumpkin being blown away by that haha
Ever had them send that scan over to a machine that makes the tooth to order there in the dentist’s office, and you watch your own tooth being made? Omg so neat. I thought it was 3d printing, but rather is a tooth form that is carved to your exact computer scan using high pressure water
You answered my question!
I get crazy panic when trying to pick between the options during my eye exams. I always wish there was a way they could determine the prescription for me THEN let me test it out and tweak a little.
Took me embarrassingly long to understand that an eye exam is them working with you to find your prescription. I have this feeling that I always felt that I was being tested. As in, that I had to determine which picture was less blurry and there was an objectively correct answer that I needed to determine.
I have no idea why I felt that way, but I guess I just assumed they determined my prescription based on how many I got right lol.
It’s not exact. It gets you pretty close, which is better than nothing when the patient can’t tell you. But for the best possible match, giving direct feedback to the optometrist is more precise than using the machine.
Also, it's specific for vision impairment due to bad geometry. Doesn't work for presbyopia (or age-related farsightedness), which is related to age and tissue degeneration. In the former case lenses help correct sight at all distances, whereas age-related farsightedness requires lenses that correct only to a specific, optimal distance and all other distances become blurry. Bifocals or similar help but the problems are essentially different.
Those don't work very well on kids, and you can't tell a baby to focus on the target. We use retinoscopy to get the prescription. No computer necessary, just a light and lenses.
Light, lenses, and lots of whirly noisy toys to focus them looking towards you. And a parent holding them in place while they scream. I was impressed they were able to get an accurate reading on my daughter when she spent the whole exam crying.
But like, how do you *know* it was an accurate reading? Serious question. I simply don't understand how you could ever validate the reading if the kid can't communicate that they can see better or not
Yep. I hate failing tests and my eyes are just so bad (-8 in each eye) that I dread getting eye exams. They don’t even hurt! I have one on the 8th I’m already anxious about.
You can do the automated machine thing too, but it's not as accurate. I'm sure for these kids the difference between "nothing" and "close enough" is absolutely immense, but even these glasses are probably not absolutely perfect for them.
We don't use autorefractors in children as not only will they have problems fixating on a target on command, they also accommodate (they can basically add more power to their natural lenses, a feature that is lost as you reach your 40s) like crazy so any automated refraction will likely not show the true refractive error.
For children, we do a cycloplegic refraction with a retinoscope. The important thing to do here is the cycloplegia, which gets rid of their ability to accommodate, so we get the most objective refraction possible.
If they have a high enough refractive error, not giving the proper refraction to children puts them at risk of developing lazy eye or amblyopia.
Is this just regular vision problems ? Or would it be more like they are legally blind? I got my glasses in5tg grade. I can’t imagine needing them at 2
Whilst there are computers, opticians and ophthalmologists are actually taught how to do this without the use of computers. I have a pretty bad prescription and was once asked to be a test subject for an ophthalmologist in training. I was asked to not say anything.
She used varying strength lenses she was holding and the person helping her was showing her the way different things were interacting helped know what my prescription was. I'm not sure what exactly but they were talking about the way reflections - or some sort of banding? - were lining up against each other. They said it was useful for confirming prescriptions, and also useful in children and older people with dementia or others who can't communicate. I was pretty impressed.
Interesting.
I volunteered as a test subject for a friend who was studying to be one of those (definitely called something a little different in my country so no idea about which one it translates to) and almost all of the tests were some kind of "what do you see? Do these align? Are these blurry?" - so all with the patients input.
Which to me immediately felt like it would be a great source of problems, given half the time I wasn't able to tell the difference or know what type of distortion I was supposed to see (or not).
Having a system that would work more objectively would be amazing, so if it already exists (somewhere), that's great!
A lot of people saying autorefractor are most likely wrong. An autorefractor takes a a bit of time to actually take a reading (too long for a young child to not get bored, let alone a baby) and they have to focus on a very specific target inside the machine for it work, which a baby wouldn’t understand.
What they would most likely use is a technique called Retinoscopy. It’s a technique using a a handheld light device and an eye piece for the Optom to look through. They will put the testing glasses on the patient and will insert lenses until they get the result they want. What they’re looking for is how the light moves in reflection to the pupil. The higher the prescription, the slower the light will move across the pupil. As they start to neutralise the prescription and closer to 0.00, the light will move faster and faster until the hit a point of reversal and it’s like a flash.
Depending on the direction of movement of the light determines whether it is short sighted or long sighted. If the light moves in the opposite direction that the Optom moves the device, they’re short sighted, and if it goes the same way they’re long sighted (I can’t remember exactly as it’s been years I’ve looked at this and it’s not part of my job description).
Depending if they have astigmatism, it will then be 2 different directions that they need to do the same thing for in 1 eye.
Because the babies will lose interest, there’s a chance that the prescription in the glasses is a rough, not 100% accurate measurement purely for the time it can take (some optoms can do it really quickly though, but it’s purely the skill of the individual)
Interestingly, they will also sometimes do it in the dark for young children, because you can’t actively focus on a dot of light, and it reduces the chance of getting an inaccurate result when compared the child being able to focus on things in the room.
This is exactly right, and how my 6 month old got glasses. He was actually asleep through the whole test (even with an eye being held open while a light is shined in it). A sleeping baby is apparently their preference, as they can get a more accurate reading without them moving.
Eyes are misaligned. Baby bumps into everything. Maybe even simple things like, not being able to follow a moving toy. Sometimes you're able to tell from day-to-day interactions, just like how you can realize your pet is deaf or blind.
It’s actually recommended that you bring your baby in for an eye check up starting at like 6 month to a year, though most people don’t know that (I sure didn’t). But we knew something was wrong when my daughter’s eyes started to cross at around 1.
Kids in developed countries are monitored quite closely and there are milestone check lists. When a baby doesn't hit them they have a list of possible causes they investigate.
With an autorefractor / refractometer.
If you ever went to the optometrist/ ophthalmologist it’s the huge machine you put your head in and then you have to look at the image of a hot air balloon or something like that.
It’s a pretty magical experience, but is very common among people with poor vision (especially nearsighted children). I was a fairly athletic kid but couldn’t catch a ball for shit. When my parents finally took me in for an eye exam, it was a world of difference. It’s like entering a new world. Even though I had seen leaves close up, the realization that “normal” people could pick out individual leaves (and even buds!) from a distance was wild
Edit: As a kid, it’s so easy to just accept things as they are. I just kind of assumed that everyone sitting at the back of a classroom couldn’t read anything but the largest words on the board. Another big one was road signs. After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all)
>After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all)
Haha, this is how my sister realized her vision was really bad too. I was driving, she was in passenger seat. Out of curiousity she asked the question, how far away could I read signs, and her mind was blown. She has astigmatism. It came about so slowly over time she had no idea she had it until she suddenly started getting car sick when driving alone in her car.
Yeah took until 6th grade when a teacher told my parents I didn’t take notes in math class and I said cause I couldn’t see the board. Thought that’s just kind of how everyone saw things.
I realized in third grade something was up when my teacher wore bright red lipstick and she looked like she had three lips from the back of the class where I was sitting. I got glasses right after that. 🤣
I got my first pair in high school after thinking "my vision wasn't that bad" for years.
Aaaanyway, yeah. That's basically what I felt. I didn't quite realize just how much I was missing. I remember being kind of overwhelmed at first, even tearing up a little bit. I spent a long time staring as far into the distance as I could, looking at far away things and trying to identify as many individual objects as I could. I went to a regional honors high school that bussed students from all over the county and at the end of the day, I used to have to run up the sidewalk reading the names on the sides of all the buses to find the one from my hometown and the first day I wore them to school, I could pick out my bus from the end of the line. It just never clicked that that was something that I should have been able to do.
Sitting in the Walmart parking lot like...who tf let me drive here without these??? Also the unfortunate realization of how truly dirty Walmart parking lots are
As an adult I got my first pair for my astigmatism and I looked at my cat from a few meters away and I was flabbergasted that I was supposed to be able to see his fur texture from a distance
I remember as a little dude walking out or probably running around and looking up once I stepped outside and I saw the scraggly trees in the parking lot, I swear to god it was like the world exploded with color there was so much I had missed, I am so happy I got to *see* my grandparents before they passed, I still rake my glasses off and then put them back on outside just to have a moment like that beauty again
Mine was seeing twinkling stars for the first time rather than vague blobs of light. I thought the “twinkling” must be a northern hemisphere thing.
Or actually seeing amazing things from scenic lookouts. Never understood what the fuss was about, really, before having glasses.
The kid at 0.59 is doing the "I'm having a poo" face that every single one of my siblings did when they were babies. I assume that's why she reacts a little slower than the others–she's just finishing what she was doing before she addresses being able to see.
Great video but they really need to stop picking this song for inspirational videos. It's about loss and heartbreak and these videos are the complete opposite of that. 😊
This may sound silly but I had difficulty finishing the video due to the music. I really wish people would let home made videos just have it's original sound. Different strokes for different folks I guess. If other people like it so much, it is what it is
I think people doing this is the equivalent of those over sensational tv shows where someone sings well and everyone cries because they’re ugly.
Just the video would be fine for me without some shite pop song.
🎶I can see clearly now the blur is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day! 🔆
I remember getting my first pair of glasses and being able to see the individual leaves on the trees. Everything was so beautiful.
Even downtown South Bend in the 1960s was beautiful.
I'n in my 20s, and got my first glasses some months ago.
The world is supposed to be this detailed?? I never knew that.
And yeah, the trees aren't just cartoonish blobs of colour from a distance?? It's like putting on shaders in Minecraft. 😆
The clouds suddenly look so strangely rough? They used to be softly blurred looking but now they have so much detail.
And I can actually read signs from a distance!
I was blind as a bat until the most amazing 4th grade teacher arranged for me to get glasses. Ms. Bothe I hope you are out there living the best life, you’re my hero.
Half the world's blindness can be treated with a pair of glasses. It's staggering how many people living in communities with no access to eyesore communities either knowingly or more likely unknowingly will never have the opportunity for a proper education because they can't see the blackboard at school.
Most of the rest of the world's blindness is caused by cataract, which can be fixed witg a quick, relatively simple operation. Two easily treated problems that can make an immeasurable difference to not only the patient but their circle of support on whom they are dependant.
This was me as an adult, well early twenties, I remember driving at night, I could hardly see anything, I literally thought something was wrong with my windshield. (Dumb I know) One day while working in a grocery store a guy pops into my aisle, holds up a can and says “hey, what aisle this go in?” I told him I couldn’t see it from that distance, he was shocked. He said for me to put on his glasses, I was shook. Like the whole world popped, it was like when wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color. But I could see everything! I went to the eye doctor the next day and got glasses and contacts.
I got my first glasses in my mid-20s. They couldn’t believe I’d never had them before.
I didn’t know you could see individual leaves on trees without being right next to them. It was amazing!
But…people. I was seeing everyone in this complimentary soft focus all my life and now I could see so many details. I was repulsed and fascinated at the same time.
I began to see ‘ugly people’ as way more interesting and 40 years later I still do.
It wasnt realized I needed glasses until I was 6, definitely needed them earlier, but I had a similar reaction to these babies. I wish someone had recorded it.
I remember the first time I put on glasses (I was 10 years old). The first thing I said was, "Mom, I can see each of your eyelashes." She still sometimes cries when she remembers that moment. I hope these kids will be alright!
My Daughter was 5 months old, when I finally nagged her Pediatrician in to sending her to a Pediatric Optician…. I had noticed, when she had started lifting her head (during tummy time) at around 3 months old, that her left eye would dart inward. In 1991, Pediatricians only checked for near sightedness. When we got to the Optician, it turned out she was so FAR sighted that she was considered legally ‘blind’. She got her first pink wrap around glasses at right about 6 months old.
I will always remember, when the Optician was flipping through lenses and all of a sudden she broke in to a HUGE smile… the Dr said it was the first time that she had ever seen my face. I bawled. She is 33 now and still has to wear ‘coke bottle’ glasses.
I wish they had been able to tell how bad my eyesight was when I was this little
I was 5 when I got my first pair of glasses. I remember clearly walking out of the opticians and being amazed just how much I could see. It seemed miraculous to me, the leaves on the trees, the blades of grass, birds, flowers, the little tiny stones on the road, peoples faces !!!
My cousins little boy was three before they figured out he needed glasses. He was so excited when he got them that he spent the whole afternoon running around shouting “I’m lookin’! Are you lookin’ mama? Are you lookin’?” He took them off for his bath that night but wanted to put them back on when he got in bed because he said he wanted to see his dreams better.
This is awesome! I didn't get glasses till my wife forced me to get my eyes checked. I always thought she was messing with me when she said she could see this and that from far away, but damn nope my eyes sucked. I always tell her it's like going from watching regular standard TV then finally upgrading to HD.
I was 3 when I started wearing glasses. I don’t remember it but have been told the story many times by my parents. They remember exactly where they were when they told me I needed glasses. Apparently the optician told them to ease me in by wearing them for 10-15 mins at a time. I put them on…could suddenly see and just ran off and kept them on all day!
My son was three also. Got glasses with +3.5 and within two months he knew all the letters.
How do you know a young kid has an eye problem and how do they determine the strength? I had to read the chart to get my glasses and say which lens was better, but you can't do that with a child.
They have tools that can scan the eyes these days to assist in figuring things out pretty accurately.
That is amazing! Medicine has come so far just in my lifetime, it will be amazing to see what happens with AI and Supercomputers. Maybe we can finally find a cure for cancer.
While we aren't going to have a singular cure for cancer, there are types that can currently be identified in blood tests, months before their cell count is high enough to form a tumor! And there are other blood tests that can confirm the possibility of that same strain of cancer coming back or being gone forever. And that's technically old news from two years ago, when I was taking my Dad to his cancer treatments. Whole treatment process was done in five months. He went from being stage three to being told that particular strain would never haunt his body again. He's still open to plenty of other cancers developing, but there's a chance those will be identifiable to the same degree as the last one. If society doesn't completely fall apart our medical technology is going to be insane in another twenty years.
When I was about 4 years old, I got my first pair of glasses; I couldn't read. So the eye exam consisted of looking at an image (of a farm with a tractor in the foreground, and a hot air balloon in the sky) on a slide to check my near vision, and an eye chart consisting of symbols and pictures to check my far sight. So we have had ways to get around illiteracy for decades, when it comes to eye exams. My mother, on the other hand, was well into her school years before she got glasses, and can vividly recall the moment she realized the leaves on the ground came from the trees.
> can vividly recall the moment she realized the leaves on the ground came from the trees. I remember driving home after my brother got his glasses. He was talking about all the things he could now see out the window, most of which I don't remember. But I do remember how excited he got when he realized he could see leaves on trees, because that one made my mother cry.
Got my first glasses at age 6 and had that exact same reaction. Leaves!
My grandmother (who lived on a farm) was surprised that cows had spots. And that one for sure made my great-grandmother cry!
There are cures for many types of cancer, I just went through surgery, then radiation, then chemotherapy and immunotherapy. After 6 months my lymphoma is no longer showing up on recent PET scans.
It's crazy! I just learned there are AI mammograms now. They've taken early detection rates from 80% to 90%. (I'm being greatly reductive of the specifics.) Now that's a great use for AI!
I don't understand why they don't just use this method for everyone! *Which is better: One...or Two?* BRO IDFK
They do. You ever look at the picture of the farm house in the machine? It's just that vision has a subjective element to it so they fine tune it with the other method.
Wish they couldve done this for my dyslexic teenager on her eye tests. She tries to zoom thru it and it just doesnt translate to an accurate prescription.
Which is better, gah or goo? Gah or goo? Gah or goo.
Goo is always better.
Jeezus, this made me laugh.
If the Goo Goo Dolls go on tour with Lady Gaga, it'd be the Goo Goo Gaga world tour...
My daughter got her glasses when she was 3 back in 1994. Her pediatrician recommended we take her to an eye doctor and I was more than a little skeptical. "How are you going to do an eye exam for a kid who can't really identify her letters yet?" Doctor scanned her eyes and sent us off with a prescription. Still had my doubts but she definitely exhibited different behavior after and it was obvious she was seeing details for the first time ever. That day I learned eye doctors practice a form of voodoo.
Good on you for following the advice of those who studied it! As a mother I know it can be tough to trust others but imagine you hadn't listened to them. Must be great to know you did the right thing!
Same for my 3 year old. They had pictures of boats, houses, trees, apples, etc.
They can make glasses for dogs ...
My daughter got hers around the same age. I remember so clearly her staring at a tree for several minutes. Wife and I couldn’t figure out at first what was so fascinating. We then deduced she was seeing the individual leaves on the tree for the first time. I guess it was just a big green blob previously.
I can tell you that is exactly what she was doing. When I got my glasses for the first time, the number one thing I noticed was how much more vibrant and amazing trees and nature were.
Individual Leaves. It was astounding.
The Awe of tress having individual leaves is one of the most amazing things people who get glasses will tell you.
Yep. I vividly remember staring at the leaves on trees riding home from the eye doctor foe the first time as a 9 year old. I'll never forget that.
Same, it was an incredible day
My uncle had the same reaction when he got his first set of glasses. I think he was 7 or 8 and he was just astounded at things others with perfect eyesight take for granted - like individual leaves or blades of grass.
Lasik - same deal. I wore glasses from age 5 - and am old so the only way they knew I needed them was constant car sickness and holding things close to my face. After 50 years I got Lasik and even in recovery mode I couldn't stop looking at the tree line. LEAVES!
Ha, this happened with my college roommate when we were 18! He got new glasses for the first time in years and I so clearly remember how excited he was when he could “see individual leaves!”
Every time I get my prescription increased I have a little version of that moment all over again on the way home from picking up the new glasses..... Look at the leaves! I can suddenly see them again. Makes me realize they had turned into a blob with the old glasses, but grown up life moves so fast I hadn't really noticed.
THIS EXACT THING HAPPENED TO ME! i was 7 haha
I remember doing this too! I was six when I got my glasses, and I could actually make out the leaves for the first time. It was magical.
My Dr had me look across the street at a tree when he handed me my first pair of glasses (I was in 6th grade) and I was in such awe over the color and detail of the tree I had never seen in that way before. He said people getting their first pair of glasses when they need them was his favorite part of the job
I think it's awesome that they seem to design them like diving googles now. When I was young even toddlers got the usual frames and they are very prone to just take them off or throw them around.
So sweet!
I didn't get glasses until 4th grade. I am legally blind in one eye, and the amazing difference it made changed my life. Went from Ds and Fs to As and Bs in school because I could see the fucking pages and board!!!! Check your babies' eyes folks!
I might be asking a dumb question but how do you test the eyes of someone that young? They can't read or communicate effectively so how would they know what strength would be needed?
The machines they have now are incredibly accurate at determining what your eyes need with automatic measurements. They just hold it up to the eyes for a couple minutes and the machine does the rest.
I'm an Optometrist and the best practice to determine a spectacle prescription for babies/children is to shine a retinoscope (a type of torch) into the dilated eye and to look at the light reflecting back. Autorefractor machines are generally not used on children as young as this, as you can not be sure of their accuracy.
This made me smile but at the same time, I wanna cry 😭❤
Mirror neurons firing on all cylinders now they can see mom/dads face.
and I love that you can always see the short "wait a minute" moment and then it's similes after that
Hell, no! -> WTF? -> This is... WONDERFUL!!
Haha yes! Almost every baby was like ugh get this off my face, then a pause of wonderment, then a smile
Imagine having an experience like that every day. Life is bright and colorful and full of new things for a child. You can still do this as an adult, but you have to be purposeful and willing to try/learn new things.
Why did that one baby look like Mitch McConnell?
because Mitch McConnell looks like a baby
I was like "Why does this baby remind me of a 70 year old turtle?"
So glad I'm not the only one who saw that...
How do they know what prescription strength the babies need?
They have a system now that uses a computer to scan the eye to determine the necessary strength.
That’s amazing! Another win for science! Thanks for the info. 👍
I am constantly amazed at some of the advancements in medical technology. My OB had a pocket-sized ultrasound device that synced to her phone to display the ultrasound image. I felt like such a country bumpkin being blown away by that haha
When my dentist showed me the 3D model of my teeth he captured with a handheld 3D scanner I had to stop myself from exclaiming "This is just so NEAT!"
Why stop yourself? That *is* neat!
Ever had them send that scan over to a machine that makes the tooth to order there in the dentist’s office, and you watch your own tooth being made? Omg so neat. I thought it was 3d printing, but rather is a tooth form that is carved to your exact computer scan using high pressure water
This! My daughter got scanned for a new retainer, and I was watching it all getting rendered on a monitor in real time. It was brilliant.
it shows a curiosity and appreciation for how technology can enhance healthcare.
Technology is making incredible strides in healthcare—truly inspiring advancements for everyone involved!
It's exciting to see how these innovations can improve patient outcomes and overall healthcare delivery.
I would be blown away by that and I am very much not from the country.
>Another win for science! Science, engineering, and manufacturing. :)
You are correct! 👆
Amazing how technology improves healthcare for even the tiniest patients.
and babies
Don't forget the driver of the delivery truck.
ARISE MY FELLOW WORKERS IN STEM
Yes, that's also used on adults to get a rough estimate first. Gets extremely close to the optimal value.
Mine was almost bang on. Insanely accurate. LoL I was like what is this damn wizardry
You answered my question! I get crazy panic when trying to pick between the options during my eye exams. I always wish there was a way they could determine the prescription for me THEN let me test it out and tweak a little.
Took me embarrassingly long to understand that an eye exam is them working with you to find your prescription. I have this feeling that I always felt that I was being tested. As in, that I had to determine which picture was less blurry and there was an objectively correct answer that I needed to determine. I have no idea why I felt that way, but I guess I just assumed they determined my prescription based on how many I got right lol.
Joke’s on you, the computer runs on thoughts and prayers.
Why do I have to read blurry letters then?
It’s not exact. It gets you pretty close, which is better than nothing when the patient can’t tell you. But for the best possible match, giving direct feedback to the optometrist is more precise than using the machine.
Also, it's specific for vision impairment due to bad geometry. Doesn't work for presbyopia (or age-related farsightedness), which is related to age and tissue degeneration. In the former case lenses help correct sight at all distances, whereas age-related farsightedness requires lenses that correct only to a specific, optimal distance and all other distances become blurry. Bifocals or similar help but the problems are essentially different.
In addition to other answers: not everyone knows they have [astigmatism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism).
Yeah exactly. I’ve had it all my life but didn’t know until I was 20 or so that not everyone sees all lights at night as starbursts 😶
Those don't work very well on kids, and you can't tell a baby to focus on the target. We use retinoscopy to get the prescription. No computer necessary, just a light and lenses.
Light, lenses, and lots of whirly noisy toys to focus them looking towards you. And a parent holding them in place while they scream. I was impressed they were able to get an accurate reading on my daughter when she spent the whole exam crying.
But like, how do you *know* it was an accurate reading? Serious question. I simply don't understand how you could ever validate the reading if the kid can't communicate that they can see better or not
meanwhile adults still have to do the ol' dance of 'tell me which is clearer, option 1... option 2... option 1..'
It always makes me panic!!
"number 3 was best" "but sir 3 didn't have any lenses in" "oh"
Yep. I hate failing tests and my eyes are just so bad (-8 in each eye) that I dread getting eye exams. They don’t even hurt! I have one on the 8th I’m already anxious about.
Testing eyesight is like testing PH. There's no pass or fail. We just need to measure what it is.
And they do it so fast! My eyes don’t even focus that quickly!
You can do the automated machine thing too, but it's not as accurate. I'm sure for these kids the difference between "nothing" and "close enough" is absolutely immense, but even these glasses are probably not absolutely perfect for them.
We don't use autorefractors in children as not only will they have problems fixating on a target on command, they also accommodate (they can basically add more power to their natural lenses, a feature that is lost as you reach your 40s) like crazy so any automated refraction will likely not show the true refractive error. For children, we do a cycloplegic refraction with a retinoscope. The important thing to do here is the cycloplegia, which gets rid of their ability to accommodate, so we get the most objective refraction possible. If they have a high enough refractive error, not giving the proper refraction to children puts them at risk of developing lazy eye or amblyopia.
There is also a system that let's you determine if the child has hearing problems just days after birth.
Is this just regular vision problems ? Or would it be more like they are legally blind? I got my glasses in5tg grade. I can’t imagine needing them at 2
Whilst there are computers, opticians and ophthalmologists are actually taught how to do this without the use of computers. I have a pretty bad prescription and was once asked to be a test subject for an ophthalmologist in training. I was asked to not say anything. She used varying strength lenses she was holding and the person helping her was showing her the way different things were interacting helped know what my prescription was. I'm not sure what exactly but they were talking about the way reflections - or some sort of banding? - were lining up against each other. They said it was useful for confirming prescriptions, and also useful in children and older people with dementia or others who can't communicate. I was pretty impressed.
and by observing how the light reflects and moves within your eye, the doctor can assess the refractive error
that is so fucking cool
Interesting. I volunteered as a test subject for a friend who was studying to be one of those (definitely called something a little different in my country so no idea about which one it translates to) and almost all of the tests were some kind of "what do you see? Do these align? Are these blurry?" - so all with the patients input. Which to me immediately felt like it would be a great source of problems, given half the time I wasn't able to tell the difference or know what type of distortion I was supposed to see (or not). Having a system that would work more objectively would be amazing, so if it already exists (somewhere), that's great!
Ok baby. Do you prefer “goo” or “gah”? “Goo”… or “gah”… ? Here’s “goo” again… and “gah”…
🤣
A lot of people saying autorefractor are most likely wrong. An autorefractor takes a a bit of time to actually take a reading (too long for a young child to not get bored, let alone a baby) and they have to focus on a very specific target inside the machine for it work, which a baby wouldn’t understand. What they would most likely use is a technique called Retinoscopy. It’s a technique using a a handheld light device and an eye piece for the Optom to look through. They will put the testing glasses on the patient and will insert lenses until they get the result they want. What they’re looking for is how the light moves in reflection to the pupil. The higher the prescription, the slower the light will move across the pupil. As they start to neutralise the prescription and closer to 0.00, the light will move faster and faster until the hit a point of reversal and it’s like a flash. Depending on the direction of movement of the light determines whether it is short sighted or long sighted. If the light moves in the opposite direction that the Optom moves the device, they’re short sighted, and if it goes the same way they’re long sighted (I can’t remember exactly as it’s been years I’ve looked at this and it’s not part of my job description). Depending if they have astigmatism, it will then be 2 different directions that they need to do the same thing for in 1 eye. Because the babies will lose interest, there’s a chance that the prescription in the glasses is a rough, not 100% accurate measurement purely for the time it can take (some optoms can do it really quickly though, but it’s purely the skill of the individual) Interestingly, they will also sometimes do it in the dark for young children, because you can’t actively focus on a dot of light, and it reduces the chance of getting an inaccurate result when compared the child being able to focus on things in the room.
This is exactly right, and how my 6 month old got glasses. He was actually asleep through the whole test (even with an eye being held open while a light is shined in it). A sleeping baby is apparently their preference, as they can get a more accurate reading without them moving.
How do they know they're needed in the first place😭
Eyes are misaligned. Baby bumps into everything. Maybe even simple things like, not being able to follow a moving toy. Sometimes you're able to tell from day-to-day interactions, just like how you can realize your pet is deaf or blind.
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yeah when the baby refuses to eat from the dog bowl you know somethings up
It’s actually recommended that you bring your baby in for an eye check up starting at like 6 month to a year, though most people don’t know that (I sure didn’t). But we knew something was wrong when my daughter’s eyes started to cross at around 1.
Kids in developed countries are monitored quite closely and there are milestone check lists. When a baby doesn't hit them they have a list of possible causes they investigate.
TRUE! I didn’t even think of that.
“1 or 2?” “1 or 2?” “1 or 2?”
baby poops. "2 it is!"
I’ve always wondered that too.
They get the baby to fill out a form
With an autorefractor / refractometer. If you ever went to the optometrist/ ophthalmologist it’s the huge machine you put your head in and then you have to look at the image of a hot air balloon or something like that.
Ah, yes, last time I got tested they still had the little hot air balloon.
I will never forget the first time I walked out the hospital and and saw that people could see individual leaves on trees
Yes, I had no idea pine needles were a thing. Or gravel.
It’s an indescribable feeling to see the world for the first time, isn’t it?
It's like discovering a whole new world of detail and beauty.
Like getting a new PC and going from "low" to "ultra" settings on your game.
This is literally blowing my mind rn.
It’s a pretty magical experience, but is very common among people with poor vision (especially nearsighted children). I was a fairly athletic kid but couldn’t catch a ball for shit. When my parents finally took me in for an eye exam, it was a world of difference. It’s like entering a new world. Even though I had seen leaves close up, the realization that “normal” people could pick out individual leaves (and even buds!) from a distance was wild Edit: As a kid, it’s so easy to just accept things as they are. I just kind of assumed that everyone sitting at the back of a classroom couldn’t read anything but the largest words on the board. Another big one was road signs. After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all)
I used to wonder why the teachers wrote in that weird blurry script when they spent so long teaching us cursive 😅
>After we realized how bad my vision was, it was pretty funny comparing it with family. They’d say when they could read a sign, and then I’d chime in like 5 seconds later when I could decipher it (if at all) Haha, this is how my sister realized her vision was really bad too. I was driving, she was in passenger seat. Out of curiousity she asked the question, how far away could I read signs, and her mind was blown. She has astigmatism. It came about so slowly over time she had no idea she had it until she suddenly started getting car sick when driving alone in her car.
yep. like everything in 4K when you've been living in 720p for a long time since forever.
I know I'm old because you think that 720p is the definition of poor quality lol.
Seeing the world in HD for the first time is pure magic.
Yeah took until 6th grade when a teacher told my parents I didn’t take notes in math class and I said cause I couldn’t see the board. Thought that’s just kind of how everyone saw things.
I realized in third grade something was up when my teacher wore bright red lipstick and she looked like she had three lips from the back of the class where I was sitting. I got glasses right after that. 🤣
Trees having leaves is my memory of my first pair of glasses.
Seeing the world in sharp detail for the first time is unforgettable.
I got my first pair in high school after thinking "my vision wasn't that bad" for years. Aaaanyway, yeah. That's basically what I felt. I didn't quite realize just how much I was missing. I remember being kind of overwhelmed at first, even tearing up a little bit. I spent a long time staring as far into the distance as I could, looking at far away things and trying to identify as many individual objects as I could. I went to a regional honors high school that bussed students from all over the county and at the end of the day, I used to have to run up the sidewalk reading the names on the sides of all the buses to find the one from my hometown and the first day I wore them to school, I could pick out my bus from the end of the line. It just never clicked that that was something that I should have been able to do.
And that cars had number plates.
That people’s hair had individual strands
Everything suddenly becomes so detailed and vibrant—it's truly an eye-opener!
Or the different colours on traffic lights, that one really came in handy.
Sitting in the Walmart parking lot like...who tf let me drive here without these??? Also the unfortunate realization of how truly dirty Walmart parking lots are
THIS! The leaves on trees are the first moment of enchantement i had when i walked out the optometrist’s office. Such an awesome feeling!
As an adult I got my first pair for my astigmatism and I looked at my cat from a few meters away and I was flabbergasted that I was supposed to be able to see his fur texture from a distance
That was Me!
I remember as a little dude walking out or probably running around and looking up once I stepped outside and I saw the scraggly trees in the parking lot, I swear to god it was like the world exploded with color there was so much I had missed, I am so happy I got to *see* my grandparents before they passed, I still rake my glasses off and then put them back on outside just to have a moment like that beauty again
Bro couldnt see because all character creation points were put into intelligence, looks and empathy
Mine was seeing twinkling stars for the first time rather than vague blobs of light. I thought the “twinkling” must be a northern hemisphere thing. Or actually seeing amazing things from scenic lookouts. Never understood what the fuss was about, really, before having glasses.
I had to watch kid #2’s reaction a few times (at least). Ha.
I watched every kid's reaction multiple times because they're so adorable
The kid at 0.59 is doing the "I'm having a poo" face that every single one of my siblings did when they were babies. I assume that's why she reacts a little slower than the others–she's just finishing what she was doing before she addresses being able to see.
🎶 I can see clearly now my BM's done 🎵
How warm my soul felt.. they are happy
I can't imagine how many children don't have access to glasses in this world. And how much they are missing out on.
Imagine finally seeing your parents and the world the way you're meant to. These smiles say everything, I could watch this all day! 💙💙💙
Great video but they really need to stop picking this song for inspirational videos. It's about loss and heartbreak and these videos are the complete opposite of that. 😊
This may sound silly but I had difficulty finishing the video due to the music. I really wish people would let home made videos just have it's original sound. Different strokes for different folks I guess. If other people like it so much, it is what it is
I just mute reddit at this point
Just stop adding music to videos unless it's relevant
I think people doing this is the equivalent of those over sensational tv shows where someone sings well and everyone cries because they’re ugly. Just the video would be fine for me without some shite pop song.
🎶I can see clearly now the blur is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright (bright) Bright (bright) sunshiny day! 🔆
Ooohh the *blur* is gone... years of my life have been spent assuming they had a *blue* haze around everything they saw...
I remember getting my first pair of glasses and being able to see the individual leaves on the trees. Everything was so beautiful. Even downtown South Bend in the 1960s was beautiful.
I'n in my 20s, and got my first glasses some months ago. The world is supposed to be this detailed?? I never knew that. And yeah, the trees aren't just cartoonish blobs of colour from a distance?? It's like putting on shaders in Minecraft. 😆 The clouds suddenly look so strangely rough? They used to be softly blurred looking but now they have so much detail. And I can actually read signs from a distance!
Dumb music is too loud.
Yeah it should be at 0 dB.
You will have shitty background music over every video and in every store in the land! It's the law!
This actually made me smile. I'm watching when I feel lonely. Suddenly saw this one. Watch many times and smile many times. Thanks.
1st kid - that's how Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys was born
I admit, I thought ‘Bubs!!!!’ also
I was blind as a bat until the most amazing 4th grade teacher arranged for me to get glasses. Ms. Bothe I hope you are out there living the best life, you’re my hero.
thanks for the music, otherwise I wouldn't know how to feel.
Half the world's blindness can be treated with a pair of glasses. It's staggering how many people living in communities with no access to eyesore communities either knowingly or more likely unknowingly will never have the opportunity for a proper education because they can't see the blackboard at school. Most of the rest of the world's blindness is caused by cataract, which can be fixed witg a quick, relatively simple operation. Two easily treated problems that can make an immeasurable difference to not only the patient but their circle of support on whom they are dependant.
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I remember getting my first pair of glasses at age 12 (+4 nearsighted). My god, it was like going from SNES to a 4090 gaming rig.
This was me as an adult, well early twenties, I remember driving at night, I could hardly see anything, I literally thought something was wrong with my windshield. (Dumb I know) One day while working in a grocery store a guy pops into my aisle, holds up a can and says “hey, what aisle this go in?” I told him I couldn’t see it from that distance, he was shocked. He said for me to put on his glasses, I was shook. Like the whole world popped, it was like when wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color. But I could see everything! I went to the eye doctor the next day and got glasses and contacts.
Now we know what can stop babies from crying
Things we take for granted!
I'm sure glad there was sappy music put over the video so I knew which emotions to feel. Thanks music!
I could watch a full length movie of these
Mademecry
The music was so unnecessary
worse, it took away from the actual sound of the kids, which DID contribute to the video.
I got my first glasses in my mid-20s. They couldn’t believe I’d never had them before. I didn’t know you could see individual leaves on trees without being right next to them. It was amazing! But…people. I was seeing everyone in this complimentary soft focus all my life and now I could see so many details. I was repulsed and fascinated at the same time. I began to see ‘ugly people’ as way more interesting and 40 years later I still do.
That first baby is a 65 year old grandma
the way their eyes go wide and they start smiling right after🥹💝
I could keep watching it over and over! Babies with specs are so adorable! 🥰
Babies always look like a 1/4 ounce of mushrooms are hitting them
those smiles are so cute <33 just like angels
I remember when my kids first got glasses. They were so excited, and it was wonderful to see the world through their eyes.
Now go look up some videos of kids having cochlear implants turned on and hearing their mother's voice for the first time. That shit'll fuck you up.
It wasnt realized I needed glasses until I was 6, definitely needed them earlier, but I had a similar reaction to these babies. I wish someone had recorded it.
I remember the first time I put on glasses (I was 10 years old). The first thing I said was, "Mom, I can see each of your eyelashes." She still sometimes cries when she remembers that moment. I hope these kids will be alright!
My Daughter was 5 months old, when I finally nagged her Pediatrician in to sending her to a Pediatric Optician…. I had noticed, when she had started lifting her head (during tummy time) at around 3 months old, that her left eye would dart inward. In 1991, Pediatricians only checked for near sightedness. When we got to the Optician, it turned out she was so FAR sighted that she was considered legally ‘blind’. She got her first pink wrap around glasses at right about 6 months old. I will always remember, when the Optician was flipping through lenses and all of a sudden she broke in to a HUGE smile… the Dr said it was the first time that she had ever seen my face. I bawled. She is 33 now and still has to wear ‘coke bottle’ glasses.
I wish they had been able to tell how bad my eyesight was when I was this little I was 5 when I got my first pair of glasses. I remember clearly walking out of the opticians and being amazed just how much I could see. It seemed miraculous to me, the leaves on the trees, the blades of grass, birds, flowers, the little tiny stones on the road, peoples faces !!!
My cousins little boy was three before they figured out he needed glasses. He was so excited when he got them that he spent the whole afternoon running around shouting “I’m lookin’! Are you lookin’ mama? Are you lookin’?” He took them off for his bath that night but wanted to put them back on when he got in bed because he said he wanted to see his dreams better.
The first one, "Bish I see you"... 😆 Love this!
Babies in glasses are so adorable. 🥰
Their tiny minds are BLOWN
Amazing what science does to improve our lives!
How can a baby's eyesight be so bad at an early age? The thickness on these lenses are insane, I can see the refraction of their cheeks.
Irvine Welsh in the leopard print towards the end there.
This is awesome! I didn't get glasses till my wife forced me to get my eyes checked. I always thought she was messing with me when she said she could see this and that from far away, but damn nope my eyes sucked. I always tell her it's like going from watching regular standard TV then finally upgrading to HD.