Ah yes, a visit to the optometrist. Or as I call it, OCD Hell. “This one? *flick* Or this one? *flick* This one? *flick* Or this one? *flick* This one? *flick* Or this one? This one? *flick* Or this one?. . . ” - ThreadSky

bebeneuwirth.bsky.social • 6 hours ago

Ah yes, a visit to the optometrist. Or as I call it, OCD Hell.
“This one? *flick* Or this one? *flick* This one? *flick* Or this one? *flick* This one? *flick* Or this one? This one? *flick* Or this one?. . . ”

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8blackdiamond8.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They are all the same! They want you to think they're not!

avallette.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I end up with responses like “the O & T are better with 1 but the A & F are better with 2”.

ethelredbusybody.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Indeed. I know I annoyed the poor guy with my "1 has better contrast, but is somehow blurrier, and 2 has less contrast, but surprisingly more clarity..."

rick-geyer.bsky.social•6 hours ago

No worries.
“Interesting Choices” is your brand.

freakanatcha.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This will never not be funny
https://youtu.be/xLdsBY4I_ok?t=98

laynev.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It took me 35 years to work up the courage to ask the optometrist if they had good idea what the right one was if I wasn't sure.

dogdadguy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Please repeat those.

Um.

One more time?

saffronsfloof.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I recall my favorite: “Now read the smallest row you can”. Unamused I replied “E. Top line. But I should point out that’s because it is common knowledge, not because I can discern the difference.”

blagueplague.bsky.social•6 hours ago

😸

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I always think I'm guessing wrong.

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•5 hours ago

*eyes watering*

blueidiotbackagain.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Aren't you supposed to be some sort of psychiatrist or something?

laura-ryan.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I broke my optometrist by refusing to budge from, “Neither is better. They’re different.” Winning!

soonerrf.bsky.social•5 hours ago

lol

theaterbear.com•4 hours ago

maybe you'll meet a nice librarian. I mean, if Ilona can meet a nice optometrist at the library...

jld4.bsky.social•6 hours ago

ADHD hell. “Which vision do I like better?” Don’t give me choices.

spikecat.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yes! Especially when it looks exactly the same

jmcrapola.bsky.social•6 hours ago

And the result will be the same as last time.

laynie427.bsky.social•6 hours ago

omg, me too!!

5tephenk.bsky.social•6 hours ago

And then that little puffy thing in your eye. The worst.

federation-skum.bsky.social•6 hours ago

That triggered a memory.

fusche.bsky.social•6 hours ago

OMG ! I feel this in my bones. EVERY. TIME.

bginchi.bsky.social•6 hours ago

One of the flicks could at least show a tiger charging at you or something.

claude-mcdonald.bsky.social•6 hours ago

🙂
I find that they switch so quickly my eyes don’t have time to focus.

cj1995.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Same!

jimgoodale.bsky.social•6 hours ago

jeffthompson48.bsky.social•5 hours ago

🤣🤣🤣
Better or Worse. Better or Worse. Better or Worse...

rock-rex.bsky.social•4 hours ago

kuratowa.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I hate it. I’m always torn. I always feel there are some letters that more I focus and others that are not on the same slide.

writerwithcats.bsky.social•6 hours ago

He does it too fast, I can never tell!
They both look the same to me! 😭

booktweeting.bsky.social•6 hours ago

you may already know this, but for anyone who doesn’t—if they look the same, say that! that’s actually useful diagnostic information

writerwithcats.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Oh, I do.

I just worry it'll affect my prescription. 😢

booktweeting.bsky.social•6 hours ago

it should, though, for the better! my ophthalmologist explained this to me the first time I saw him; a lot of people overthink it and try to find differences they don’t perceive, but it’s actually a useful datapoint when someone doesn’t see a difference where the average person does

writerwithcats.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I'll have to remember that, Julie.

You're such a sweetie. 🥰

booktweeting.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I pay a lot for my fancy health care so I want to share as many of the informational benefits as I can! feels like I’m getting more value

morganalafee.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I hear ya…..got the same song….. sigh ……

jeffemeral.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nowhere in my life do I ever say “…bout the same” more than I do in that chair

berfield.com•6 hours ago

I don't wear glasses anymore, but that used to drive me crazy

kitagain.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I feel your pain!

hedgy78.bsky.social•6 hours ago

No. That one!

sdrose.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Had mine this morning too. “The light is going to be pretty bright” as she shines what seems like a laser on my eyeball.

I’ve had some of those chart letters memorized since I was a kid.
OFLCT

crewless.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Seriously.

asta77.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yep. And often two choices seem to be identical. Then I get my glasses and wonder if I picked incorrectly!

wendyinneverland.bsky.social•6 hours ago

That and the peripheral test, looking for little fuzzy boxes. Both make me question my very sanity.

alwayscoffee.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I *always* feel like I'm failing a test I should've studied for? Like, the weird PRESSURE of picking which is best? Ugh.

grsnyder.bsky.social•4 hours ago

..it is when the doctor switches mid-stream and "this one" becomes "that one" and I want to scream out, "no, that's #1, not #2"...

booktweeting.bsky.social•6 hours ago

who is it who tells that great joke about why she broke up with her optometrist boyfriend (“do you like it like THIS or like THIS? like THIS? or like THIS?”)

Laura Kightlinger? Jackie Kashian?

mikenjd.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Better heeeeeeeere…or better here?

Better One…or better Two?

deannaraybourn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Bebe, nooooooooo

bebeneuwirth.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Happily, the guy was SO nice, and SO patient, and SO kind.

cj1995.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I never know the right answer and feel like I’m failing a test. They often don’t look different and I ask to see it again and again. It doesn’t help that they do it so fast and my eyes don’t have enough time to focus. They always think I’m crazy when I tell them I can feel my eyes focusing.

amandagapp.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The disks make me flinch cause they brush my eyelashes, which I dislike. That feels reasonable though.

amandagapp.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I'm starting to suspect the little machines just don't go high enough for my eyes. After enough "no difference" or "they're the same" eventually they just give up.

busrules.bsky.social•6 hours ago

That perfectionist 6 year old terrified of making a mistake comes out every time. I have a pair of glasses that is fine except when seated at a laptop on a desk. The surface slopes. I gave the wrong answer, one eye astigmatism rx higher than the other 💁🏻‍♀️

jgattipetito.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nailed it!

susan-nextchapter.bsky.social•6 hours ago

OMG! Just came from my annual check up eye exam. They look exactly alike! Am I the only one who keeps saying over and over… “really close”?

babssignal.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Ugh, I NEVER know and then I think about it for years!

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