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[animal]

whyse everyone here got poor eyesight? is it cause of staring at computer screens for 12 hours a day? i think i should probably sit farther from the screen but then i wouldn't be able to read anything

[Ming]

Fricking computer screens man!

They take everything from us, but without them, we have NOTHING

[McJongJing]

whyse everyone here got poor eyesight? is it cause of staring at computer screens for 12 hours a day? i think i should probably sit farther from the screen but then i wouldn't be able to read anything

This would explain it. As a kid I would squint to read at night.

[Pleinair]

I had bad eyesight before getting computers or game consoles.

[landshark]

they said mine was genetic

my dad has pretty bad eyes

[Ming]

I was far-sighted as a kid and had glasses, but it went away in my early teens

[Kami_sama]

My dad had to wear very thick glasses due to his eyesight.

He never wore them. He bought them, decided they were too much of a bother and threw them away.

My eyesight is still ok but I think I'll end up with glasses when I hit 30.

[RQ]

whyse everyone here got poor eyesight? is it cause of staring at computer screens for 12 hours a day? i think i should probably sit farther from the screen but then i wouldn't be able to read anything

Looking at a screen doesn't cause near-nearsightedness, it's genetic


I wear glasses too but I feel like I need to get myself contacts as well
Hopefully I'll eventually be able to afford lasik

[McJongJing]

Made my first uni friend, going to see Star Wars next weekend
I now have two whole friends in the same country as me!

whyse everyone here got poor eyesight? is it cause of staring at computer screens for 12 hours a day? i think i should probably sit farther from the screen but then i wouldn't be able to read anything

Looking at a screen doesn't cause near-nearsightedness, it's genetic


I wear glasses too but I feel like I need to get myself contacts as well
Hopefully I'll eventually be able to afford lasik

Why do glasses people always end up being fucking NERDS then?

[Ming]

I read something about that several years ago (might've been on NewScientist).

Supposedly near sighted and similarly visually impaired babies tend to focus on what is nearby, and spend more time observing it.

As they grow they come to have a preference to be analytical and more focused, which is pretty much a requirement to be a nerd since you spend so much more time thinking about stuff normal people don't and grow attached to it.

Could just be bs, but it sounds plausible.

[Ollistar]

I have astigmatism butbthat basically works the same as near sighted tbh

[ScumbagSoldier]

The way my optometrist explained it, focusing on things that are too close weakens your eyes.

He basically said that I shouldn't be able to touch my screen with my arm without leaning foreward. Same with a book, my phone, etc.

I know I didn't need glasses before I was 16, so...

[Sarah]

It's partially genetic but exposure to bright light at young age (which nerds who just go on computer wouldn't have) has been linked to lower rates of myopia. There's a bunch of other explanations of why myopic people are such nerds but not with as good evidence I think.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20445123?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23462271?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg

[a worthless person]

I have ideas for themes I want to make videos about but not sure how to do it so for now i'll stick to making that CK2 LP for a while.

I wonder if anyone here still watches those

[Kami_sama]

Sorry