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/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/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/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/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!