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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mine doesn’t look exactly like the image on the left. It’s more of an X pattern.

And that’s WITH glasses or contacts.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mine are more like crosses which leads me to ask, why are they different?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    I’m not an eye doctor - just a guy with astigmatism in both eyes… But my understanding is that astigmatism can happen in multiple ways because it is due to the eye being non-spherical, etc.

    Meanwhile, there are limits to what glasses or contacts can do to correct this. Only so many ways a lens can bend light at one time.

    I think that’s what leads to people seeing different things, even with glasses on, when it comes to visual distortions like starburst patterns around lights.

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