• marlowe221@lemmy.world
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    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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      Ooooh look at Mr. Fancy pants over there with his special astigmatism. Meanwhile we’re all stuck with the regular astigmatism.

      Joking aside, that’s pretty interesting.

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        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.