So.. not too long ago, my autistic son started wearing glasses. Doesn't he look so adorable? Well in the almost 4 months he has had them, I think he has lost them now more than 100 times. I've blogged about them being lost here and recovered here. Thanks to inexpensive online glasses e-tailors like Zenni and Goggles4u we have procured several sets of spare eyeglasses and prescription sunglasses without having to take out a house loan. But still, he loses them. He takes them off and just leaves them places. We use a 'sports-straps' and lanyards to keep them on but still.. we lose them. Our house isn't even all that big and still they get lost. I find them under the desk, in the bathroom, in his loft bed, and even in his sister's pink kitchen sink. Every day we go through a drill as we are about to leave. Where are Alex's glasses? Are they upstairs? No. Are they downstairs? No. Where are they today? Oh, they are in the case where they actually belong. Imagine that? Now, we are working on the skill that when they come off they need to go in the case, but this is a 7 year old we are talking about. And, a 7 year old with Autism to boot. I am getting more and more grey hairs over these darn glasses. So I got to thinking, I would love to have a 'glasses-tracker'. Some kind of gadget that would clip onto the temple arm that could send out a signal to a remote clicker. Kind of like pushing the 'page' button to find your missing cordless phone. I use that page button, almost every day.. mind you. Or like when you can't find your car in a crowded Costco parking lot and press your alarm to make it beep - been there and done that.. thanks to a serious lack of handicapped parking causing me to park far away out of desperation.
I thought.. surely - someone must have made my dream-gadget because I NEED this. No such luck so far in finding anything, but I did find a few patents pending.
Eyeglass locator system
Apparatus for locating a pair of eyeglasses
Eyeglass Locator System
Eyeglass Locator
Please.. I beg you..Hurry up! We need this before I go totally gray!
4 comments:
He looks nice in them. Good ideas. I am always worried that Matthew will pick up my glasses and bang them. Need for reading coupons and mags.
When Rocky was younger, we were at the glasses store so often that the entire staff knew us by first names. I feel your pain.
BTW, I've finally followed through with the Six Unspectacular Quirks meme you tagged me with. Tada.
Surely someone could invent something. I can only imagine if we had to keep up with glasses I would be undone.
Keeping up with shoes is almost impossible.
And I bought three pairs of sandals and keep two in the van at all times.
Still we never have shoes.
Wish I was more creative, I'd try to invent something!
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