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How long ago were you told that? I was told that years ago, but as I said I've been wearing toric contacts for about three years.

In fact, both my optometrist and ophthamologist have told me that contacts are better at correcting astigmatism than glasses are, since astigmatism is caused by the shape of your eye and contact lenses sit directly on the eye and will actually fix an astigmatism over time (rigid gas-permeable lenses are best at this, but can leave you unable to wear glasses, which is why I have soft ones—not wearing my glasses at least part of the time is not an option!) . My vision is a bit better with the contacts than with the glasses, and it's only since the invention of those automatic refraction test machines that they can get an accurate reading of my glasses prescription at all, meaning that until then my vision with glasses was abominable—20/50 in the right eye and 20/120 in the left.

I'm jealous, btw ... my vision in both eyes without glasses is off the charts, literally. (Once you get worse than 20/400, or better than 20/10 for that matter, you need to get up and walk towards the chart and they do math based on how close you have to get before the 20/400 line comes into focus. My optometrist, however, decided that getting an actual number was pointless—"Once your vision gets that bad, it doesn't really matter what the actual number is"—and just decided I was 20/700 in the left eye and 20/800 in the right.) In any case, my point was that I'm far more used to 20/100 and 20/120 being measurements with correction than without.