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Blind Without'Em

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Nobody who wears glasses in TV ever needs them for minor vision correction, except for reading glasses that are worn mainly to make the character look wise. Almost all TV characters with glasses have such bad vision that if they are deprived of their spectacles, they are practically blind -- usually hammered home by showing (briefly) the character's uselessly blurry point of view or the character making a Blind Mistake. Note: The legal term "legally blind" is with corrective lenses (per linked article). Saying you are "legally blind without your glasses" is absurd. See also Nerd Glasses.

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Nobody who wears glasses in TV ever needs them for minor vision correction, except for reading glasses that are worn mainly to make the character look wise. Almost all TV characters with glasses have such bad vision that if they are deprived of their spectacles, they are practically blind -- usually hammered home by showing (briefly) the character's uselessly blurry point of view or the character making a Blind Mistake. Naturally, these poor souls are almost always subject to Dropped Glasses. For some unfortunate Tropers, this is Truth in Television, though paradoxically a sign of technological improvement as people who would have found it difficult to function without a prescription of -9 can now be fully productive members of society (Though even then, it's nowhere near as bad...). In animation, when such a character's glasses are lost, their eyes shrink down to pinpoints, which indicates either that they are squinting to see, or to point out the jarring real life effect of seeing someone who has huge eyes when seen through heavily magnified glasses without their glasses. An anime variation on this is usually represented with the character's eyes being replaced by 3's or 3_3, which is another stylization of squinting. Oddly, when a character discards his/her glasses in order to look more attractive or more badass, that character invariably turns out not to be blind without 'em after all (unless it's a parody). Note: The legal term "legally blind" is with corrective lenses (per linked article). Saying you are "legally blind without your glasses" is absurd. Further note: because special lenses are needed to keep eyeglasses from flashing stage lights, and reflecting filming equipment, any time an actor wears glasses, it's a character choice, and the glasses are special stage glasses, which the actor may or may not need. If an actor needs corrective lenses, and it's deemed wrong for the character, the actor has to do without, or wear contacts. Truth in Television, albeit much rarer than it is in fiction. See also Nerd Glasses. Examples of Blind Without'Em include: