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Prior to my late teens (I'm 34 now) my screen time was extremely limited yet I have quite high prescription glasses which I've worn since the age of 8/9. My pre
by alimbada 8y ago
Prior to my late teens (I'm 34 now) my screen time was extremely limited yet I have quite high prescription glasses which I've worn since the age of 8/9. My prescription has changed very little since my early 20s.
It's convinced me that my nearsightedness has come about due to the nights I spent reading books by the light of the streetlight outside my bedroom or a torch when I was a kid (after I was supposed to have gone to bed).
So IMO, what you really want to do is to avoid sitting in a dark room with a bright screen glaring in your face or straining to watch long movies and binge watching TV on your tiny 6 inch phone screen or read books without the aid of at least a lamp next to you. In general, use common sense and don't take things to the extreme. Anything that accelerates fatiguing the eyes should be avoided. That's not to say don't sit in front of a screen all day; that's pretty much all I do, but in a well lit room and with regular breaks my eyes never experience fatigue. Also, as someone else posted, having the right prescription for your glasses is also important.
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- StavrosK 8y agoI've been in front of a screen mostly all day for the past twenty years, and still have 20/10 vision. It's better than anyone else's that I know. There seems to be more to the story than just habit.
- baby 8y agoI've been in front of screens a huge number of my time during most of my youth and still had 20/20 for both eyes. At 25 my sight started decreasing and now I need glasses if I want to look at something in the distance. I have two theories about this, it's either my genes, or it's the fact that I started using a macbook pro with full luminosity at all time (even during the night) when I was 25.
- CoolGuySteve 8y agoLet’s not share anecdata or come to conclusions based on those anecdotes. As a community, we should be smarter than that, this is how shit like vaccine-denial starts. And the following anecdote-laden discussion of “nun uh, not me” and “me too” is just so uninteresting.