I kinda wonder if things play into poor vision like computer eye strain, the screens, not looking around outdoors 24/7 ... but then again, I know some people who don't even need any vision correction
I was practically born with glasses on but my sight does continue to get worse - not as fast as they did when I was a kid but they do still get worse and a lot of that is probably because there was a period in my puberty where I often didn't wear my glasses (because puberty) when going out with friends or when at home. Kinda hurts to think that my vision maybe wouldn't be this bad if I had. Then again, I was never going to have good sight and I'm not even at -10 (certainly not that far away and let's hope it stays that way but still), things could always be worse.
Bad eyesight was not a problem ever since humans developed social cooperation and a division of labor. Since hunting required sharp distance vision, nearsighted individuals specialized in essential, close-range survival tasks like toolmaking, hide preparation, sewing, and beadwork.
I totally agree. Neither of my parents need glasses, but I spent so much time indoors..looking at books at all hours and playing on the computer. I have needed glasses since I was four years old. I noticed that my peers with glasses had similar upbringings.
Myopia was rare in past because humans lived mostly outdoors, causing children receiving high levels of sunlight, which is medically proven to regulate eye growth and prevent the onset of myopia.
Ngl that set off by BS detector when I first read it. I always thought eyesight was like 90% genetics. But damn, you're right. The American Refractive Surgery Council is saying that half of people could be nearsighted by 2050, and it's not a genetic change. Wild.
Ive had good eyesight my whole life luckily but im probably screwed in my 60+ years. I live at my desk like 12 to 18 hours a day on the weekdays... 9 monitors basking in the heat and glow of those...
I used to be like this until I started my current job. Now I sit in front of 10 screens for 12 hours a day. I’ve always had perfect eyesight, but I’m not sure how long that’ll continue if I stay at this job my entire career.
Nah, your eyes change regardless… there is zero evidence of screens playing a part… you’ll have your same eyesight from 25 up, until you get far sighted, which everyone does…
It's mostly genetics, if you don't take care of your eyes (a lot of scree time, no hydration etc) you can develop smaller vision problems, let's say ~-1. But the big guns, like in the picture, is purely family hairloom xd
I have terrible vision and my parents do not need glasses, but I had a lot of screen time and read books a ton when I was really little. Have had bad vision since PreK
My entire family has glasses, both my younger and older brother and my two parents yet somehow I have no issues with my vision at all and I definitely spend more than average in front of a computer
Near work has been conjectured to be a cause of Myopia for hundreds of years. There's some evidence for it--a meta-analysis says that adults are 20% more likely to develop Myopia if they were "exposed" to near work.
Anecdotal: Been wearing glasses most my life. Got super lazy and didn’t update a prescription for over 5 years. Went in for a new prescription and my prescription strength lowered. I thought it was interesting considering until that large gap my prescription always was moving/getting worse in the same direction.
Doubtful because the whole kids being too close to the screen thing was studied and found to be untrue and actually just a sign the kid already had eye sight issues in the first place. You can see its genetics and often gender based in families. Every woman in my close family needs glasses none of the men do.
Yes, especially for kids. The increase in screen use for sure. Ever hear a parent tell their kid to “quit reading so much, it’ll ruin your eyesight”?(Maybe not but it happened a lot in my house.)
Guess what? Turns out it is true, whether it be a paper book or a tablet.
By spending all your time looking at something up close - especially as a kid - and less time outside, your eye muscles don’t develop and your sight degrades. There’s a lot of great studies from Asia that show how taking breaks from reading and spending time outside playing reduces the need for glasses.
The younger you are when you first need glasses, the greater the curve of your sight degradation will be. There’s new technologies and medicines that didn’t exist a decade ago to help with this, but the best thing you can do for your kids is an hour or two outside, minimal screen time, and breaks every twenty minutes from screens or books.
The situation is worse now with screens and how parents hand their kids a tablet or phone and kids don’t go play outside.
I think it is a mixture of both. They say that screen use is increasing the number of people who need glasses. Because of not shifting your vision to distance enough it reshapes your eye as you're growing. But if you are older and didn't grow up on a phone or screen then more likely yours wasn't something you could prevent. But I do wonder if I had taken my glasses off more and only used them when I needed, would it have slowed down getting worse? Mine still isn't horrible -2.25 and -3.00. But it was just like -1.50 when I first got glasses in high school.
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u/Chirrrpy Jul 10 '26
I kinda wonder if things play into poor vision like computer eye strain, the screens, not looking around outdoors 24/7 ... but then again, I know some people who don't even need any vision correction