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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.
Mine are more like crosses which leads me to ask, why are they different?
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.
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.