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Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Sep 26, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.985 (38/10,127 LTDR)
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this whole thing strikes me as so ableist⌠although most glasses-needers wouldnât think to call ourselves disabled unless it was severe enough to be considered blindness, the idea that you can fix something thatâs going on with your body so you no longer need an aid to function, if youâre just willing to do the spiritual work???
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I met a woman once who told me that, based on a documentary she watched, my allergies are not real. She said it was all psychological and offered to send me a link to the documentary. She also said my diabetic friend should stop taking insulin and just do a "liver cleanse." (Nevermind that the pancreas makes insulin, not the liver.)
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Tip for everyone based on your eye trauma story at the beginning: if you ever have an eye injury, always go to an optometrist rather than the ER. An eye doctor's office should always have an on-call doctor and they are way better trained and equipped to handle eye injuries than an ER, including severe physical trauma.
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As an optometry student, this was so painful to watch. The amount of misconceptions around eye health and vision is always staggering. Thank you for calling these things out! And don't worry about time spent close to your computer "hurting" your eyes! You are using the muscle in your eye to see up close, so it is a good idea to look away and give the muscle a rest every 20 minutes or so, but near work will not make you more near-sighted!
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My biggest issue with snake oil salespeople is that I know that they prey on people who either can't afford medical help or people who have been abandoned by the medical field. I was turned away by doctors several times when I had legitimate PHYSICAL health issues because they assumed I just had anxiety. You know who doesn't turn away patients? People who really want your money.
It's just so depressing. I do believe some holistic stuff is good and the medical world needs to do some catching up in terms of how they treat patients, but overall I just wish this wasn't such a problem.
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When my daughter was a baby, my wife and I thought she might have autism spectrum disorder because she wouldn't look at people and really just loved to stare at the squiggles on her mobile. At age 2, she was much better than her twin sister at their favorite game: bucket girl. They would put buckets on their heads and walk around and one of my kids crashed into things less with the bucket than without it.
So we got her glasses. Poor kid can't see crap without them. She has strabismus and we got the glasses when we noticed her eye turning. Turned out, her eyeballs aren't quite the right shape and she was squeezing them into the right shape to see, which tired her muscles out, then her brain would just stop using that eye and then her eye would turn. With patching and glasses, that improved. 9 years later, her eye still turns when she takes the glasses off. But not she sees it more as a party trick. Look how I can make my eye go crossed! And her vision has now stabilized and even slightly improved in the last couple of years. Her vision still sucks, but it doesn't seem to be getting worse now.
By the way, glasses with 2 year old twins... oy givult. It took a lot of convincing for my daughter with good eyes to understand that her sisters glasses were NOT a toy. My daughter with glasses still has a small scar from the glasses being dragged over her face by her sister. Also, the ones insurance pays for do NOT hold up to a pair of toddlers. They lasted a couple of weeks. They paid for one replacement that also lasted a couple of weeks and then we had to pay hundreds of dollars for plastic ones we couldn't afford that actually handled the abuse.
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As someone with a -6 in both eyes, I cannot imagine just pretending I don't need glasses and hoping my problems would just go away. It would be a legitimate safety hazard to go out in public without my glasses, even without driving, because the distance I can see in front of me is severely shortened. Peripheral vision is just not a thing for me unless I wear contacts. I would have an easier time pretending to be completely blind.
Maybe it is different for people with a better prescription, but I can only imagine the harm this 'masterclass' would cause if it was universally accepted.
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My story is that i got glasses when i was 14 because⌠i didnt know i was supposed to see good. Nobody ever told me things were not blobs. But since my grades were always really good, and i would always sit in the front line in class, no one ever realized i didnt see shit. So one day i stole my best friend glasses i went: what the actual fuck is this (remember, ive been living in blurry world for 14 years) and she explained thats what the world really looked like. Fast forward, i got glasses and the first thing that i told my mom when i put them on was about how beautiful leaves in trees were and to this day she still feels bad about it đ
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My mom hasnât been wearing glasses since she lost them in 2019 and she never got another pair and let me tell you ⌠she came to my drama performances (last year) and told me it was good but we were all just blobs on stage. Yh, she still canât see. Also she didnât get a new pair purely because she canât afford to. So I donât think anti glasses makes sense.
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@svenleeuwen
7 months ago
I totally hate how they can always claim that you were not open minded enough if the masterclass doesn't deliver the promised results. Typical snake oil shenanigans.
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