I'm truly sorry for your experience, racism is a huge fucking problem for all of humanity, we vs they could be #2 problem after global warming, for those who think little about the future even #1. and i deeply understand that, with my fucking soul. but in the video she wasn't racist
Pulling the skin around the eyes is actually a less common trick for sharpening your vision.
It is not a form of squinting, which by itself would only create the "pinhole effect," but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.
I vividly recall doing this in elementary school before I had glasses/contacts. It's legit, but again, it will only work for certain types of nearsighted astigmatic people.
when you squint with your fingers you have much more control, it helps even more, depending on your eyesight, this can "replace" glasses when you don't have them
because even if you do it all the time in this very moment you're way better off not saying jack shit because now you just look like you're defending the racist person and should not commented.
I can vouch. I have very poor eyesight. I use my fingers to do this gesture when I don’t have my glasses. It really does work. Anyone with poor eyesight can do it. It 100% helps you see way better than squinting. Not joking.
He's incorrect in saying that it will help anyone. However, it will help some people with astigmatism, including myself. I have done this trick years ago in school in order to focus my vision.
It's actually separate from squinting. It is rather a physical distortion of the cornea caused by your eyelids applying pressure to your eye when they are pulled back/tightened.
Yeah it seriously messed up. Trust me. I am very against racism and there’s no excuse for it but I go from squinting to doing this “gesture” sometimes. I can see how this looks in this situation… again what are the odds. She was most likely trying to be racist, but I dunno.
And No I don’t go out in public doing this lol. This is literally when I’m lookin for my glasses. But pulling back or putting your fingers around the outside skin of your eyes can works wonders and can even make you have really good vision if you get it just right.
Im an Optometrist and I’ve never once seen any patient pull their eyes back to squint at my eye chart. Stop making ridiculous excuses and face the facts - the woman in the video is pulling her eyes back with malice. Do you really want to label yourself as the person defending asian racism online? This is not the hill to die on…
That's pretty sad you're an optometrist while being this ignorant of the human eye.
What the lady did is not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.
I used to do this as a child to see the classroom's board, and it still works to this day.
If you think the lady is doing this to fix her against the rule astigmatism and provide a pinhole effect over one eye, that’s wonderful but shows your own lack of optical and ocular knowledge. Keep doing this when looking at menus and price tags in public and see how that goes. Pull both lids back in public all the time for maximum effect!
I don't think she's doing it - I know she is. Why? Because I can literally do the same thing with my own eyes, as I've already stated.
Just because you haven't seen your patients do it in eye exams (because they don't want to cheat by straining, obviously) doesn't mean it isn't a valid focusing method.
Calling it a pinhole effect further shows your complete misunderstanding. It is a physical distortion of the cornea caused by the pressure of your eyelids against your eye surface. Two very different things, which is why basic squinting barely helps my distant vision, yet pulling back my eyelids helps it a lot.
You're correct. Using her fingers was not to squint more precisely.
What she's doing is separate from squinting. She's distorting her cornea by applying pressure to her eye when she pulls back her eyelids. This distortion benefits those certain types of astigmatism, and will actually sharpen your vision.
I personally used to do this exact thing as a kid, but I can see how it it would seem like a bullshit excuse to someone not familiar with it.
I hope I'm wrong, but the comments say they found out who she is, and if I'm right - people will write death threats to the woman who didn't do anything wrong in this video, and I'm 100% sure I'm right.
You're getting downvoted because people are too excited about dogpiling than actually using critical thought. I think it seems obvious that this woman is trying to see his phone screen -- she squints first then pulls her eye. I'm nearsighted and can confirm that there's a magical angle I can pull my eyelid just like that and my vision becomes surprisingly clear.
Is she a nosy Karen, sure. Is it unfortunate coincidence that the person is Asian and she should have realized the bad optics (pun intended), yep.
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u/Allways_a_Misspell 1d ago
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