I was diagnosed as being near-sighted at age nine, and had to wear glasses. At about 14yo I switched to contact lenses. Why? Two reasons: first I was tired of my glasses always getting knocked off my face during physical activity like playing or sports. Second, I wanted to look better to be more attractive to girls. 10 years later I had eye surgery.

So there are 3 options for near sightedness: glasses, contacts, and surgery. It's a choice.

There's the image of the brainy kid wearing glasses. But why is it? Plenty of articles on Google, but the TLDR is that brainy kids exascerbate the condition by choosing to do many "close up" things like reading and tinkering which apparently does not exercise the eye muscles as much as the not-as-brainy kids who are outdoors looking for things at a further distance.

So does anyone here think wearing eyeglasses is percieved as a beta behavior? Are eyeglasses one of the most obvious tell-tale signs of being "beta"?

I mean (and I'm not claiming to be an alpha) look at my own reasons for choosing to not wear them: physical activity and chasing girls. That's more alpha than beta. And add to it that brainy kids usually tend to have social issues because to them the persuit of knowledge is often more stimulating than the persuit of social relationships. The result is that they might not care at how they look wearing glasses. Beta marker?