>Luckily my mum is also short sighted and she noticed me straining to see things. My parents just kept scolding me for sitting too close to the TV. I had to as

>Luckily my mum is also short sighted and she noticed me straining to see things. My parents just kept scolding me for sitting too close to the TV. I had to ask for them on many occasions and eventually got them to get me tested. It had got so bad that I couldn't read anything written on the blackboard for a long while.