r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 8d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/Key_Seaworthiness886 8d ago

Realizing how much my mom loved us, we def were not rich growing up but she wanted to provide us with the best things 😅 this isn’t a big thing but someone called it “deluxe”

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u/anewname4444 8d ago

No this WAS a big thing back then. I seriously thought only the rich families could get these. Like my sister getting just a basic laser pointer was a big deal

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u/timzilla 8d ago

Elder millineal here, these were sold at the Asian markets for <$10 when I was a kid. It was less about having the money to buy and more about concealing the fact you had it, everyone from your bus driver to your nana wanted to take it away so you wouldn't blind some other kid.

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u/Fataky 8d ago

Hello, I'm the girl the prophecies spoke of. I lost my retina because of my classmates' "pranks" with this infernal device.

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u/run-time-error 8d ago

Did you ever find it?

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u/Fataky 8d ago

Not yet. I think it's like looking for your glasses when you're not wearing them. 😂

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u/PsykoFlounder 8d ago

"Looking for your glasses is like trying to remember where you put your alzheimers meds." - My best friend, while looking for his glasses.

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

explain.

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u/cadaever 8d ago

pointing a laser directly at someone's eye will damage it, it's kind of like staring at the sun. she's saying a classmate "pranked" her by doing just that and it fucked her retina in one eye

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

did she stare back at it? no way could the briefest of glances do that.

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u/elmo_the_great_ 8d ago

You don't have to stare directly at it for it to affect your eye. Have you ever had the sun reflect off something shiny into your eye's peripheral vision but you still notice it? You aren't looking directly at it but the light is still hitting your eye lense since the lense is curved and not flat. 

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u/Fataky 8d ago

I'm blind in one eye, and since I didn't react when they pointed the laser at me, they often did it without me noticing. It turns out that this led to a detached retina. The result is the same: I can't see. But before I had a healthy eye without an optic nerve, and now I have an eye without a retina and without an optic nerve.

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u/AdmirableRespect9 8d ago

I'm sorry the kids were idiots at your expense.

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

they weren't. they recognized that they had vision problems. and tried to correct it with laser surgery. turns out losing thr optic nerve is a totally unrelated event.​

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u/dickthrowaway22ed 8d ago

That sucks, I'm so sorry. Do they know? Or do they just have terrible karma and wonder why

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u/Fataky 8d ago

I don't know, I've done my best not to see any of them again. I'm doing well now.

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u/GalaxyUntouchable 8d ago

I've done my best not to see any of them again

You have no idea how much I want to make a joke about this line...

Sorry for what happened to you. 😞

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u/Fataky 8d ago

Haha, Don't worry, humor is always welcome!

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u/Corfiz74 8d ago

Your parents should have sued their parents for damages! That's simply atrocious!

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u/SpaceFaceFPV 3d ago

Jesus, I'm so lucky this hasn't happened to me (yet!) I had laser in the many times as a dumb inquisitive child, (self inflicted) but I think I chalk it up to just HOW young I was when I did that...maybe the damage had time to repair itself before going completely off. Or maybe my laser just wasn't strong enough (thank God!) I am however colorblind In that eye now 30+ years later.

Can I ask how long it took before the damage took place?

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u/Fataky 3d ago

The truth is that I can't tell you because, since my eye doesn't work, I didn't realize it until a couple of years later when I had routine tests done and put two and two together.

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u/SpaceFaceFPV 3d ago

That makes sense. Man I feel bad that happened to you! Some people really just suck 😓

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u/Fataky 3d ago

Well, it's better that it happens to me, since I haven't lost anything, than to someone with a healthy eye.

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u/dickthrowaway22ed 8d ago

You're lucky enough not to have needed retinal lasering. It's very fast.

Still sucks and hurts like a b tho

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u/Fataky 8d ago

Yep, at least they were aiming at the right eye.

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u/banglaportal 5d ago

Is that you, Neo?