by Bobby Laurel
It has been a year since I started wearing glasses over contact lenses full time. The power the lenses in my glasses is minus 20 dptr, the over of the contacts is plus 9 dptr. Saying fulltime I really mean I put my contacts in the morning and wear the strong glasses till the late evening. I wear the glasses every day, everywhere I go. I do all my activities with the glasses on.
First I must say I got used to wearing the combination so much that I feel quite uneasy whenever I wear glasses with my normal prescription, which is only minus 7 dptr. The vision I have when I am wearing GOC has become my real normal vision. The image is slightly smaller than with my official glasses, of course. The lenses in the glasses are blended myodiscs or superlenti, which means that the carrier lens makes about 5 mm wide outer zones at the edges of the lenses. The do not provide anything but blurred and distorted image of the outer world. Anytime I glance sideways and try to look through those parts of the lenses I have the good feeling that my glasses are really strong. I enjoy that. Also, anytime I look at myself in a mirror I can see the circles round my small eyes and the distorted image of my skin behind the outer parts of the lenses. It is cool, nice, and very pleasant.
As I have said I got used to wearing the GOC combination so much that it is becoming pretty normal for me to look like a person with severe myopia or even a visually impaired person. I am not sure what people who notice the strength of my glasses think, as only very few people ask about my glasses. Some people give me „a look“, although not too many. Those who often see me, like shop assistants in the neighborhood, my clients and neighbors do not ask and they probably stopped wondering. I notice, that whenever I speak with unknown people, they look at my glasses. It is quite obvious when a person you are talking to stops looking into my eyes and starts looking at the glasses. Well, it is not always that pleasant. I do not like men doing so, while I quite enjoy women viewing my glasses. I should say lenses not glasses as my frames are very usual, smallish oval silver wire thing; they are not any kinky or so.
Some people asked during the first weeks after I had started wearing the GOC full time. (See Trying to go full time.) The questions stopped after some time. Now, nobody asks, somebody looks, scarcely anybody shows any emotion. Sometimes I miss the feeling I used to have when I saw the reaction in the faces of people who looked at my strong glasses. This often happened, when I occasionally wore my old glasses fitted with spherical mineral-glass lenses which are 18 mm thick at the outer edges. I wear the old glasses very scarcely now, as they are really heavy and eccentric. I take them on only when my soul craves for the reaction „OMG, what a horrible visual impairment“. I do not need to do it very often.
My girl friend knows about my GOC. I explained her everything very soon after we started dating. Her first reaction was curious. She asked many questions and really tried to understand. I think she can understand that it is an issue of identity, self-identification, and also a little of sexual feeling. She is very supportive. She even said she would like to try what it is like to wear GOC. She is a great person, isn’t she?
What next? Nothing, I will continue wearing the –20s because I like it as much as I liked it the year ago. The good feeling has not worn off at all.
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A funny thing happened today, just before I started uploading this text and the morphs of Adel2660:
I ran out of cigarettes. As I really wanted to have a smoke while working with the PC I put my shoes on and opened the door. Suddenly I realized I was wearing the „wrong glasses“, actually my prescribed –7s. I went back and put my GOC on, as I could not imagine going outside without my –20s. So, is anybody able to to tell me which of my glasses - or which of my looks – are the right ones?
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