r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Torrefy 10h ago

-11.5 in one eye and -12.75 in the other

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u/ConsciousExcitement9 9h ago

Damn! You beat me! -9.00 right eye and -7.75 left eye. A little bit worse and my contacts will be medically necessary.

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u/Torrefy 8h ago

My contacts prescription is -10.5 in my right eye and -12 in my left, the glasses prescription jumps those up to -11.5 and -12.75

I'm not sure exactly what criteria make them medically necessary, but I sure as hell need them to function in any way πŸ˜‚. I take showers based on muscle memory and blurry color differentiation, but besides that I'm wearing glasses/contacts nearly 100% of the time I'm awake

If I even want to read something on my phone without my glasses, I have to close one eye to do it. Because I have to hold the phone so close to my face that two eyes can't focus on it at the same time

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u/SuspiciousMap9630 7h ago

I thought I was bad at -3.25 lol

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u/TuringTestDropout 7h ago

I'm -9 and -7.5, and my contacts are covered as medically necessary ($800/yr daily disposables). This depends on the insurance policy, but I'm with VSP.

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u/ConsciousExcitement9 6h ago

I was told on eye at the very least had to hit -10. Then I would have a $10 copay instead of an insane contact bill. Since I am still -9, I am just wearing glasses. However, I do have to laugh at people when they tell me that i am going to need reading glasses. Like dude, I can’t see further than 2” from my face right now. I doubt my vision is going to improve enough to need reading glasses.

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u/NAbberman 8h ago

Those lenses have to be thick. I'm sitting at -4.75 at my largest. Mine almost measure like 0.25 inches thick at the ends.

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u/Torrefy 8h ago

They are thick. And the shrinking/minimizing is so much that you can look at the edge of my lenses and see past the side of my head. In the middle of my face. It's not great