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Everyone in my family said to me as a teen why aren't you wearing your glasses? You know your eyesight will get worse. Ten years later as a 27 year old I went

Everyone in my family said to me as a teen why aren't you wearing your glasses? You know your eyesight will get worse. Ten years later as a 27 year old I went to the opticians and they had got worse by .25 which my optician told me is so nelgigible that people drop by that in six months. I know this is hardly a scientific study but I do get suspicious sometimes the advice to wear glasses is coming from the opticians industry rather than hard facts, a bit like how dentists work

dizzystar 9y ago
I'm pretty sure eyesight, if already bad, degrades the quickest in your younger years and flattens when you get older. That's how it happened when I was growing up, and the doctors assured me that I wasn't going to go blind as my experience was "normal." I haven't had a significant change in eyesight for a while now. What's fascinating is how each doctor has a different interpretation of what a proper prescription is. Some like to give too strong, some too weak. I switched doctors a while ago, due to a move. The new doctor told me my prescription and I was a little surprised by the difference. I asked her why such a change and she showed me what the world would look like if I was using the prior prescription and it was like seeing a massive blur. She said she had no idea how I was able to see at all. I was using that prescription for one year, and I didn't have any problems seeing anything before. (I wear contacts and I sort of need to know my prescription so I know what box goes to what eye as my left and right are different. When I wore glasses, I had no clue what it was)
- rhinoceraptor 9y ago
  I think you just get used to the glasses you have. For example my current pair of glasses are a high index lens, and adjusting to them took two or three days of being slightly dizzy when walking around.
davidzweig 9y ago
It appears to me that there is a very peculiar vacuum of knowledge surrounding eyesight and glasses among the public, and what must surely be willful ignorance amongst opticians.
coldtea 9y ago
>Everyone in my family said to me as a teen why aren't you wearing your glasses? You know your eyesight will get worse. And, according to the studies referenced in the post, they were right -- and would have been more so if you were younger than a teen (ie. if you didn't wore then at 6-12 yo, you'd have worsened more).

dizzystar 9y ago

I'm pretty sure eyesight, if already bad, degrades the quickest in your younger years and flattens when you get older. That's how it happened when I was growing up, and the doctors assured me that I wasn't going to go blind as my experience was "normal." I haven't had a significant change in eyesight for a while now. What's fascinating is how each doctor has a different interpretation of what a proper prescription is. Some like to give too strong, some too weak. I switched doctors a while ago, due to a move. The new doctor told me my prescription and I was a little surprised by the difference. I asked her why such a change and she showed me what the world would look like if I was using the prior prescription and it was like seeing a massive blur. She said she had no idea how I was able to see at all. I was using that prescription for one year, and I didn't have any problems seeing anything before. (I wear contacts and I sort of need to know my prescription so I know what box goes to what eye as my left and right are different. When I wore glasses, I had no clue what it was)

rhinoceraptor 9y ago
I think you just get used to the glasses you have. For example my current pair of glasses are a high index lens, and adjusting to them took two or three days of being slightly dizzy when walking around.

davidzweig 9y ago

It appears to me that there is a very peculiar vacuum of knowledge surrounding eyesight and glasses among the public, and what must surely be willful ignorance amongst opticians.

coldtea 9y ago

>Everyone in my family said to me as a teen why aren't you wearing your glasses? You know your eyesight will get worse. And, according to the studies referenced in the post, they were right -- and would have been more so if you were younger than a teen (ie. if you didn't wore then at 6-12 yo, you'd have worsened more).