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I've spent most of my life indoors, looking at objects very close to my eyes (books and computer screens), in low light conditions. Everybody kept telling me I
by magoghm 11y ago
I've spent most of my life indoors, looking at objects very close to my eyes (books and computer screens), in low light conditions. Everybody kept telling me I would become nearsighted if I kept on doing it.
I'm now 55 years old, and I don't think I will ever be nearsighted. Actually, for the last 5 years I've been using reading glasses when I need to read books with small print as I can't focus anymore on objects which are very close to my eyes (that's presbyopia which comes from my age and is like the opposite of nearsightedness).
- rntz 11y agoPresbyopia and myopia are not opposite; in fact, you can have both at once! My mother has to wear bifocals for precisely this reason.
- metasean 11y agoI too have extreme myopia, but am old enough to be suffering from presbyopia also, and frustratingly have the bifocals to prove it. While presbyopia is not technically the opposite of myopia, it is functionally the opposite. > Presbyopia (from Greek presbys (πρέσβυς) = old man + ops (ὤψ) = see like, sight > meaning literally trying to see as old men do[1]) is a condition associated with aging in which the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia
- metasean 11y agoIronically, I spent most of my childhood outside and still developed nasty myopia.