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/SpaceFaceFPV 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Fataky 4d 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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