Coloured glasses lenses- why people stare?

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Hi everyone, I have been wearing prescribed tinted lenses for almost a year. They are a dark green in colour. As the weather gets dimmer and summer goes away people are, once again beginning to blatantly stare at me. I understand that many people thought they were sunglasses and perhaps wonder why I am wearing them indoors.
I have also had people, many, react as though I can’t see them. However when I ask various groups of strangers (in Facebook groups I am part of or whatever) people say they wouldn’t presume I have a sight impairment due to my glasses. So is it just that geeky people (most of those I socialise with online) are more aware that being sight impaired and wearing dark glasses all the time are not the same thing? Or are people staring for some other reason and I’m not getting the social ques...
does anyone else wear prescription tinted glasses - especially dark ones - do you get a similar response, thanks for your thoughts.

I know a highly trendy NT who wears her prescription sunglasses all year round, and she doesn't seem to get stared at or judged, and she is, like, the perfect role model for the latest fashion and trends, so I know that if sunglasses looked weird in non-summer months, she wouldn't wear them, only in summer. She does have normal prescription glasses too, but she prefers her sunglasses.

I think people are stupid to stare at you for wearing sunglasses. I mean, you still get bright, sunny days in the winter, so why do people think you should only wear sunglasses during hot weather? I've been stared at for wearing my sunglasses indoors (and in non-summer months) too. It's not that I'm sensitive to lights or anything. It's just one time when it was a summer's day and I was just quickly getting one or two items in a shop so couldn't be bothered to take my sunglasses off, plus they weren't that dark, and I caught two girls staring as they passed me.

People stare for all sorts of strange reasons. If only me and you had the courage to actually go up to a staring stranger and ask what they're staring at. But sadly I don't think we would get an answer. They'd probably just see us as antagonisers or something.

I think you and/or your glasses look good which is why others stare. Most sunglasses are tinted black and lesser used colours like green maybe stand out more.

Someone I know was wearing blue tinted glasses.

Depends. Other than the usual eye contact or face spotting...

Glasses can stand out in some way; sunglasses are less common or out of place to some.
Certain frames may give one a profile like label around said frames -- times one would assume around why wear any sunglasses at all.

And sometimes some people are rude -- if the eyes stood out more than the sunglasses that hides it.

Glasses that tinted in colors other than gray, black, brown or shades of yellow stood out more. It'll likely get commented as some fashion statement.



I myself wear this dark reddish brown tinted glasses.
I also wear glasses with photochromic lenses that transitions to brown.

The former does stood out more whether or not the latter got darker under sunlight.

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Maybe you look like a celebrity and people were trying to guess who you really are.

Is staring that bad? I thought people want others to look at them. Think about it that way. If you're drab and unattractive, a pair of glasses will not make people stare at you very much. You must look pretty cute.

I wear Irlen lenses and they're tinted blue. They are also prescription lenses, can't see very well without them.

I've had precisely two people ask me why I'm wearing blue lenses. A nurse asked when I was in a hospital visiting a friend. She wanted to know where I got them because a cousin of hers also wore coloured lenses.

I've also been asked by another volunteer at the Salvos. We recently moved to a new store and I brought up the fact that one of the lights was flickering. She asked did my lenses help me to see that there was something wrong with the light. I said no, not really, I'm just sensitive to light.

Can't say I've been stared at by strangers much. But then to know people are staring I'd have to look at them, wouldn't I? I keep to myself so if people are staring I wouldn't have a clue.

I've been wearing coloured lenses since about 2006. They first started off as dark grey, then I wore purple lenses for a few years, now I have blue. The different colours seemed to occur with changes in medication. Last time was 2013, so I've been wearing blue lenses since then.