• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Do you even know what causes myopia at birth? The eyes aren’t properly spherical, they’re elongated. This doesn’t tend to change all that much over one’s lifetime either.

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      4 months ago

      You aren’t born with adult sized eyes. Your eyes grow as you grow, and their growth appears to be regulated by how they’re used. It’s covered in the article, maybe read it?

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        4 months ago

        No shit Watson. It’s still all about the shape and proportions of the eye, not the size. Anyone with myopia can literally push their eyes in gently via the eyelids and see a bit better.

        Your eyes don’t get longer from being indoors, you’re either born with longer than normal eyes or you aren’t. Some are even born with shorter eyes, called hyperopia (also better known as farsightedness).

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            4 months ago

            Yes, I do take that stance, and I always will. Those dumb fucks declared me deaf for the first 8 years of my life.

            I heard them just fine, I just couldn’t see their lips moving.

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            4 months ago

            And yes, I also have 42 years of actual real life experience with myopia. What the fuck a scientist gonna tell you if they haven’t literally lived and experienced bad nearsighted eyes?

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              Would you like some more actual life experience? I became more nearsighted over time as my eyes developed. Rather than concluding that it’s impossible for you to have it at birth (which is what I could reasonably conclude using a sample of me alone), I recognize that there are multiple possible ways for someone to become nearsighted. And scientists are finding that people who spend more time looking at screens are more likely to develop myopia after birth

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                4 months ago

                Yep. My first diagnosis was -3.5 for the left, -3.75 for the right. Yes it degrades over time. Very slowly though.

                These days, I find that my outdated lenses do better than my recent lenses, when I use my old left lens for my right eye.