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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/3E7hjBM.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I am approximately blind without my contacts/glasses, so I sort of understand this - losing your vision (esp in a dangerous situation) is a more tangible helplessness to me than being stabbed to death or something.

[sparklywalls]

I get upset too because as someone who is highly myopic and so has to wear contact lenses or glasses every waking minute...I know I'd be screwed in a post-apocalyptic world. So I wince with sympathy when someone's glasses are destroyed.

I always hated that scene in The Mummy where one of the explorers crunches his own glasses until my mum pointed out that Imhotep was taking someone's short-sighted eyes and "what use is that?" Then it became sort of funny after that! But I still don't really like it.

[silvereriena]

I hated that scene too.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. "Time Enough At Last" was far worse IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, that one scene has always hit me hard - even before I wore glasses [probably because breaking glasses has always somehow come across as a very symbolic thing so...yeah.]

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I think that's totally understandable, OP. A lot of us wouldn't be able to survive without glasses/contacts -- especially if around a killer or something!

BTW, you probably shouldn't watch that one Twilight Zone episode...

[queerwolf]

That episode is one of the few that really made an impact on me.

[tabaqui]

Oh, gods, yes. That episode made me *rage* and cry and just be horrified the first time i saw it. I think i was a teen...but yeah. MY WORST NIGHTMARE.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah you start of kind of hating Burgess Meredith's character, with a "get off my side" vibe. Then it all goes sideways at the end.

[lotesse]

I had my glasses broken a few months ago and had to survive for nearly a week. it was terrifying and isolating and disorienting, and all the more weird because people kept forgetting that I couldn't effing SEE. I have a feeling that I will be sharing your reaction from here on out.

[(Anonymous)]

I always keep my old glasses for backup. (And had to just recently, as one lens decided to ... fall out randomly ... IDEK, man.) You might not be able to see WELL, but at least it's better than wandering around like an extra in a zombie apocalypse.

[(Anonymous)]

When I am wearing my glasses my fear of falling triples because 1) if my glasses break the glass will hurt my face and eyes and 2) these cost £200.

[(Anonymous)]

Got screws/sharp corners on your frames? Sliced my temple open, once. (I have secondary vestibular disorder. Am also blind as a bat. Haven't figured out the echolocation yet.) Cost me a visit to a walk-in and a tetanus shot. :-P

[elaminator]

I can handle a lot in the horror genre (not that I often do, but I can) but eyes are fucking precious and the thought of losing my eyesight is one of my worst nightmares. I have good vision, don't even wear glasses, but I completely understand why this is a thing that freaks you out.

[toshi_hakari]

I love you for using that icon <3333

[(Anonymous)]

I read a book once about a Jewish girl who lived in Japan for awhile with her husband while he was there for work. One of the things she talked about was how at both the Hiroshima museum there and the Holocaust museum, the thing that got her the most were the glasses. Especially at the Holocaust museum, it really effected her to know that someone could just take her glasses away and make her blind because they wanted to.

[(Anonymous)]

Echoing everyone here, I feel your pain. I'm not blind without my glasses but so near-sighted that it poses a major problem. What really scares me about being without my glasses is that it's like my field of awareness gets shrunken down to the inches directly around me. I start bumping into walls and people like a cartoon character, because I can't concentrate on what's coming. Similarly, I'm way more likely to get hit in the head by a ball because I won't notice it coming.

I'm the first person in my family to have eye problems from youth, but my parents are getting older and needing reading glasses. And when they say thing like, "I have no idea where I put my glasses" or "oh of course I can't read this, I'm not wearing glasses!" a part of me thinks HOW DO YOU LIVE?!

Ugh, not to mention that they let thumbprints and water spots on their glasses all the time. It took me several years to train the people around me to know that if it rains, I either have to have my head down or my glasses off, so no, I can't concentrate on what you're saying because I'm just trying to get to the nearest dry area without hurting myself.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my God, I get this too. That moment when the person is helpless to see the danger or protect themselves, and instead of running or going for protection that have to live in that horrible vulnerable moment of going for their glasses, maximizing their helplessness until they can see again and the real horror dawns on them, and then of course it's too late for them to escape; if only they hadn't had to take the time to go for their glasses...it's like an embarrassment squick, isn't it? It really gets to me.

(I don't wear glasses. Go figure.)

[gondremark]

I get where you're coming from. My vision is pretty much useless without my glasses, and so not being able to have lenses to look through would be about as debilitating as losing the use of a limb, and so when a fictional character, who's in peril anyway, gets his glasses broken or destroyed or lost, yeah, that's just a extension of my eye-squick.

[mautradutor]

You wear glasses and have bad eyesight, OP? Maybe that's what makes you react that way? I have glasses, and if I drop or am without them for some other reason, it can feel really overwhelming. I could understand the intense emotion inspiring from that.

[bur]

I had an eye corrective surgery last year and was one of the lucky people who go legally blind for a couple days afterwards. My eyes, when they weren't swollen shut, could only just barely see vague shadows of what was around me. It ratcheted up my empathy towards these situations all too well. I can't help but full-body cringe when someone has their sight messed with in movies.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's less to do with fear, but more like sudden empathy? If characters do really stupid shit and get themselves killed, it's hard to feel sorry for them. I've even rooted for some characters to die because it's frustrating how much of a dumb-ass they are. But if a character accidentally breaks their glasses in a horror movie, you know they're dead, and it's kind of sad. The character isn't stupid, they just had an accident. They didn't do anything to deserve their death. So yeah, I always cringe at those scenes too.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see this as being a fear, for sure. Without your vision, it's going to be pretty damn tough to fight off whatever's after you.

I had corrective eye surgery a few months ago, and I still find myself reaching for my glasses in the morning even though I don't need them anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I get you, OP. It makes me wince both because...well. Yeah, I need glasses. I'd probably be able survive semi-okay since my perscription is weird and one eye is decent and makes up for the one that's borderline legally blind. But also because glasses being broken has always been symbolic for all hope being lost - at least to me.

So it's a kind of one-two punch for me there, and I hate it.