Eyewear designed around attention.
An optician corrects how well you see. ADHD opticals address something different: how much of what you see gets a vote on where your attention goes.
Why the category exists
Standard glasses are built for acuity. They sharpen the 30 degrees or so of vision your work occupies and do nothing about the other 170, which is where distraction arrives. Movement in peripheral vision captures attention involuntarily; that is one of the most replicated findings in visual attention research. For many people with ADHD the capture happens more often, and each capture is a break in concentration they did not choose.
ADHD opticals start from that problem. Instead of changing the lens, they change the field: integrated side shields narrow what reaches the eye so that movement at the edges never gets the chance to interrupt. The principle is centuries old (blinkers on a horse, the falconer's hood, the study carrel). The category exists because nobody had built it into eyewear an adult would wear to work.
What they are and are not
They are a tool that changes your surroundings, not your neurology. They do not treat ADHD and they do not replace the strategies, support or medication that already work for you. They are also not tinted lenses, which address light sensitivity rather than distraction. Some frames offer both, but it is the shields that do the distraction blocking.
Where it started
Focus Frames by GOGHINI: matte black frames with integrated side shields, clear or tinted lenses, prescription lenses available. Designed in Brighton by a founder with ADHD and autism who made them for his own use.
See Focus Frames at goghini.com →