I started wearing glasses this May, and I have a problem with hitting myself in the face (not as bad as it sounds). I keep going to push my hair behind my ears and smacking my hand into my frames. Am I gonna get used to the itty bitty face windshields or am I doomed to perpetually look like an idiot who's losing the game of "stop hitting yourself"? Maybe I should just have a middle schooler follow me around to chant that so I remember...
Contacts?
Only reason I wear glasses during the week is it seems to be easier on my eyes than to look at a computer screen all day.
I'm nearly legally blind without vision correction.
Came in expecting this:
Curse you Latest Topics button!
As for the OP, sorry Katie, I don't have glasses. "Mini face windshields" made me crack up though. 
I would, but I'm near sighted so I take my glasses off to do some things (crocheting, sketching, cooking) and I don't think I could do contacts anyway. I used to wear colored ones (for fun) and I ended losing one in my eye for about twenty minutes. It was terrifying.
Try this exercise to imprint the new face obstacle in your brain. Put glasses on. Close eyes. Do a version of the field sobriety test where you hold your arms out and try to touch your nose with your index finger, but instead of aiming for your nose, try to touch just the outside edge of the glasses. Hold arms at different angles and repeat. You will have to clean the fingerprints off your glasses afterwards, but I find this helps me. Sounds goofy, LOOKS goofy as all hell, but it works for me. 
You'll get used to them. I switch between glasses and contacts, and from time to time I find myself itching my eye by reaching under lenses that aren't there. A few weeks from now you'll stop hitting yourself and a few months from now you won't notice the glasses and a few months from that it'll be weird when you don't have them on.
But you did give me a chance to link to my favorite Married to the Sea comic:
from: http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=012710
In reply to dculberson:
That comic is excellent
All 4 of us wear vision correction, all have contacts with glasses for backup. Our correction ranges from mild to severe: -2.5 (DD#2) to -12.0 (DD#1)! My wife and I are in between. We actually have to have custom contacts made for my elder daughter, and her glasses are like the proverbial coke bottles. If she was farsighted instead of myopic, she'd look like Professor Trelawney. She wants to get lasic, but her eyes still haven't stabilized enough.
I prefer contacts, though I have a weird mismatched setup that effectively operates like bifocals. It used to work really really well - like 20/15 long vision, plus the ability to read miniscule text. Over the last couple years my macro ability has slipped a little. If I really need to do close work, I go four-eyed.
You'll get used to them in a couple months. The biggest issue I have is switching to glasses after wearing contacts for a while - everything is distorted for a few minutes until my visual cortex flattens it out again.
To stop hitting yourself, attach hat pins to the glasses, facing outward. Your brain will remember not to do it a 2nd time.
Been wearing glasses since grade school, 55 now.
Just be glad they have flex frames now. Back in the day frames would bend w/ the least impact and you'd never get them adjusted correctly again, they'd rub your nose and ears, drive ya crazy.
Similar here. Near sited and anything closer than the TV I don't wear them. It does take some getting used to.
I was the last hold out in my family to get them at 21.
neon4891 wrote: I was the last hold out in my family to get them at 21.
Yep! Everyone needs them and this winter, Tom got them. I was thinking, wow, I really got lucky. Then I started noticing a distinct and terrifying inability to read street signs. Now some of the people at the office mistake me for Margie if I've got my hair up, haha
You get used to them.
Don't give up on contacts though, I'd guess that the colored ones weren't exactly high quality. Might be worth a shot.
I berkeleying hate glasses for that very reason, plus they always get dirty, cleaning lenses 4x a day sucks, they slide down my nose, and i have the choice between looking like Urkel and seeing everywhere, or looking fly as a motherberkeleyer and having huge blind blurry spots around my lenses.
Plus, the perception is way different with contacts vs. glasses. Everything looks tiny and far away with glasses.
So, yeah? I guess i'm a four-eyed fellow? But i got dragged in kicking and screaming, and only a couple times a week.
Five years from now you'll have the opposite problem. You'll be not wearing them and constantly moving your hand up to your face to adjust them.
You get used to it. I started about a year before you did. Broke my first two pair within six months. Been pretty good about them since then.
You'll get used to it. I've had glasses since the 3rd grade. Tried contacts for a while. Didn't like them. PITA. And, I kinda like having an extra barrier between my eyeballs and the nasty world of grease, oil, flying bits of steel and aluminum oxide, etc. Better the plastic lens takes the hit than my eyeball.
Swank Force One wrote: Plus, the perception is way different with contacts vs. glasses. Everything looks tiny and far away with glasses.
Your prescription is wrong then.
I got my first glasses when I was 8 months old.
Tried contacts for a year and I just went back. I didn't look like myself.
You'll get used to it, and I go through it every time I switch back to glasses
30+ years with glasses here. I'd love to get contacts, but I have a really bad bluffer's spasm and it took three sets of hands to keep my eye open long enough to get a contact in.
I ordered bifocals last week. Joy. And I'm finally going to just buy extra pairs of glasses for all the different things I do: safety glasses, cycling glasses, goggle-glasses that'll hopefully work with my DH helmet...
You will get used to it.
I went from nothing to bifocals in highschool, that took a few weeks to get used to.
I have a bunch of different ones. Distanced for driving, sun glasses for the bike, computer length (one to leave at work, one to leave at home), reading length, bifocal. If my prescription changes, I just bring all the frames down to Sams and tell them to replace all the lenses. Cost me about three bills last time, which isn't bad for 5 or 6 glasses.
as everyone else says... you'll get used to it... just be thankful you aren't a grade school boy with em... I got mine in 4th grade, my son got his between 2nd and 3rd... he has the same problem that I did... he's a boy... he likes to rough house and needs replacements every 6-8 months at minimum... while I was a kid I found the super geeky croakies helped (those straps that hold them onto your face) but that didn't stop them having mismatched legs or being glued and taped together before the year was up.
with time you just get used to them... I think it may have been easier with somewhat larger frames (similar to the larger hipster style old school frames like in your avatar pic) vs the more modern skinnier frames as they cover more of the vision than the modern frames
I went to contacts between 6th and 7th grade and went back and forth a bit in middle school based on weather (dry, cold winter was difficult in contacts) for the last 15 years or so I rarely use my glasses, in fact I think my current glasses are at least 4 years old and several prescriptions behind... i'm blind at around -6 in both eyes but can see enough to get to and from the bathroom without glasses lol.
I will say that the type and brand of contacts even today make a HUGE difference... yes it was difficult at first adjusting, and some people never seem to adjust properly to them (dry eyes) although I think some of those people just refuse to be uncomfortable long enough to train the body to get used to them (like my father in law)... my biggest issue for a long time was just getting them out, it took years before I was comfortable at getting them out without looking in a mirror although that may have been due to a pretty serious eye injury I had as a kid making me nervous...
I got my first pair ~40 years ago, tried going to contacts ~20 years ago...didn't work so well - I kept bumping my face into things and/hitting myself in the eye.
I'm just too used to them to ever go without.
mtn wrote:Swank Force One wrote: Plus, the perception is way different with contacts vs. glasses. Everything looks tiny and far away with glasses.Your prescription is wrong then.
Same prescription for both. I get both written on the same day. Glasses have always made things look smaller/farther away for me since well.... 2nd grade?
The effect is lessened with Urkel-sized lenses.
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