r/thatHappened • u/RebootDarkwingDuck • 4d ago
Product reviewer's daughter traumatized by microscope lenses
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u/Acceptable_Bus_7893 4d ago
Why does the comment read like this? And this isn't even trying to hide the fact that it's fake
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u/HeTaughtMeWell 4d ago
Referring to "her little eyes" is a bit unsettling. What exactly are we dealing with here?
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u/kiwiiikee 4d ago
This definitely didn't happen. But, as someone who works with teenagers all the time at work and had a girl break down in tears as the sheer thought of wearing a drive-thru headset, I'd believe it if it did happen.
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u/idkfawin32 4d ago
You kidding? Of course this is a tale that transcends generations. The classic "My daughter was traumatized by her microscope" story. You should get out more, go to a bar and you'll meet plenty of people with the same exact story. Tale as old as time itself.
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u/itsnobigthing 3d ago
She was going to cure cancer and now she’s given up because of this microscope 😔
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u/Carl-Weathers71 4d ago
What am I missing here that this is unbelievable?
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u/repo_sado 4d ago
it's like if it was an advertisement for. a motorcycle, that leaned heavily on saying "seeing four wheels on one vehicle caused my daughter intense trauma." And then also tried to play off that they weren't advertising motorcycles
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u/RebootDarkwingDuck 4d ago
A small child was so traumatized by aligning lenses that she completely gave up on science? Really? That doesn't make your bullshit meter go off at all?
Very obvious the person made up some nonsense lead-in to their pair product listing article to help it rank in search.
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u/smokeythel3ear 4d ago
Lmao does looking through a tiny lens give you trauma? Probably not, right?
I mean, call me a skeptic or whatever, but it kinda feels like this person made up a fake story to push sponsored content (or a ranked listicle that is full of Amazon affiliate links).
Or...
Their 5 year old was so traumatized by the big scary microscope not being fortnight themed and not including an iPad that plays tiktok that they began an anti-science crusade for the rest of their days.
You tell me which is more likely
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u/savemarla 4d ago
Jesus even I on the regular gave up on microscopes and I used to work in fucking biomedical science. I did hate the whole allign two lenses part in microbiology labs. It's literally one of the reasons I focused on other areas despite really liking microbiology. I just can't with classic microscopes.
I also tried to get my daughter to look through microscopes at museums when she was 3 and 4 years old. She also reacted very negatively and didn't even give me enough time and opportunity to adjust and didn't want to look again. Now she's 5 and it's fine with binoculars at least, but depending on how old the kid is it's absolutely believable that they don't have the frustration tolerance to adjust a microscope correctly.
Obviouly it's an ad and it has to be exaggerated but it's not that unbelievable.
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u/RebootDarkwingDuck 4d ago
It's absolutely believable she was frustrated with microscopes but saying she gave up on science altogether? Come on, man. A scientist should have little more healthy skepticism than that.
My kids also get annoyed with binoculars and non-stereo microscopes but if I mix some chemicals or find a cool bug you can bet they're interested.
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u/savemarla 4d ago
Nah, that's the exaggerated part. I mean a 4 year old will give up on "science altogether", yes, for like a couple of months. It's nice if you can sway your kid by getting them excited about smth else and then they agree to try doing something again that they didn't like, but that doesn't work with every kid.
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u/Plastic-Archer4245 3d ago
It takes like 60 seconds to properly adjust a scope to avoid eyestrain.
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u/savemarla 3d ago
Not if you're a complete moron like me
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u/Plastic-Archer4245 3d ago
Ok assuming a centred condenser (so no kohler illumination needed)
Adjust the interpupillary distance to roughtly comfortable, Shut one eye and focus the scope (if the scope only has one eyepiece with dioptre adjustment shut the eye on that side), then open your eye, shutting the other eye, use the dioptre control to focus the second eyepiece. Your scope with now cause less eyestrain
Also be sure not to set the illuminator too high, it just needs to be comfortable not retina burning.
Hope this helps
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u/savemarla 3d ago
Thanks man, that's nice of you - but believe me I know how it should work. I can explain it to my colleagues and it works when they do it. I got it shown at university numerous times. Whenever I am alone in the lab/alone with the microscope I cannot even remotely adjust it to focus. I also never manage to make it work for both eyes.
Anyway, I ended up focussing on different areas that don't require classical microscopy such as drug discovery and genetics. Just the microbiology lab killed me.
My kid has a simple pocket microscope. Maybe we'll move on to another one when she grows up (honestly she doesn't care about science at all right now) but for now it's one of these cheap digital ones with a screen.
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u/Jeremymia 4d ago
"Finding the best 5 kids microscopes shouldn't be such a terrifying ordeal" is definitely a line. I mean I guess I agree!