Getting them out is even more fun
You basically shallow-pinch them between thumb and index finger
Just don't think too much about the fact that you're basically pinching your eyeball
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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One time one of mine fell out but I thought it was just sitting wrong and first poked at it to rotate it, then tried to pinch it off for a bit before realizing it wasn't even there and I had just been poking and pinching just my eye for a few minutes.
You do? I've been wearing contacts for 25 years. All I do is grab them with my index finger.
At least for me that never worked
Although I always had soft contacts, so maybe the handling is different
I've never worn them (in my case, they'd be the cosmetic kind anyway) but I can imagine. My brother wears contacts and says you don't even feel them and I have to wonder if its just because you get used to it or what. Because even a single spec of dust in my eye bugs the hella outta me. 🤣
the speck of dust hasn't been engineered to be comfortable on the surface of the eye like a contact lens. a contact lens can be felt, but not the same way a spec of dust can. they're medical devices. they're made to be on your eye comfortably.
they don't feel strange or irritating when you blink. and after a few days wearing them, most people don't notice them. i typically only notice mine if I haven't blinked in a long time and they kinda can feel a bit dry or cold. or I notice them if I'm very tired and have been wearing them all day.
Also annoying to clean, and people sometimes forget them and they get nasty infections of life acanthomoeba keratitis
I started wearing them again after about 20 years of only using glasses, though I had used contacts for several years back then.
"Oh yeah, I know how to get them in and out!"... Cue finding a YouTube video to remind me. Lol.
I mainly use them for cycling and driving (long drives, not every time I get in a car).
But once they're in, I basically forget about them.
I used to wear extended wear soft contacts, but I'm a trash goblin and I'd leave them in for a month at a time, only cleaning them by vigorously squirting my eyes with saline when they would bother me.
I cut that shit out years ago when one pretty much glued itself to my eye and I spent an hour aggressively pinching my eye to extract it.
I never got good at putting them in/taking them out. I'm jealous of people in instructional videos that can just pop them in/out in seconds.
Your brother is trolling you. I've been wearing contacts for over two decades now; you definitely feel them. After 6-8 hours they become unbearably irritating and I have to go back to glasses for the rest of the day.
I can't wear contacts because apparently you can't make them in my prescription, but I did have some for a Halloween costume and those things felt really weird. I can't imagine putting up with them being in your eye all day.
I thought there was shady admin stuff going on in Risa and that’s why this community exists?
This is a new Risa which is totally different from old Risa. Honestly the worst part of Federation is multiple similar community names.
Point is .. it's Risa all the way down.
The other way around: there's a sexist and transphobic mod/admin/someone of "power" on Lemmy.world