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Getting Glasses at age 15

Black Rose

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I ware glasses and I got them at age 15. I do not know if I needed them sooner but if I did need them sooner I wonder how this effected my development negatively?
 

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I ware glasses and I got them at age 15. I do not know if I needed them sooner but if I did need them sooner I wonder how this effected my development negatively?

Well, when you can't see where you're going or can't read the board, etc., it can have an isolating effect compared to people who can see. People might attribute your lack of response / understanding due to visual impairment to something else entirely and then start treating you differently, etc. I can imagine various impacts.

As far as does it change your brain somehow? I don't know, at that age for humans. There are studies with some animals (I think cats) where if they are raised from birth for a few months in rooms without both horizontal and vertical lines in their perception field, it can screw up their visual acuity for life. i.e., there are animals who learn how to interpret their space in a certain window, just like we learn how to speak certain sounds (and forget others) within a certain window of time, and if you don't have that input, it can disrupt/limit your processing.

Is there a reason you are asking? What's your hypothesis here / what issue are you trying to explain?
 

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Is there a reason you are asking? What's your hypothesis here / what issue are you trying to explain?

I was thinking that my vision got worse because after I got them I would read with them on. Before when I would look at the white board I guess that the teachers wrote at the size I could see but when I got the glasses I noticed I could see the leaves on the trees well riding in the car. Letters never got that small on the white board and so I am thinking that now I cannot even see letters the size I would see them when I was 15. I would guess that maybe when I was 12 I would see the leaves, I do not remember. Does vision get that bad in only 3 years? Or must it happen in childhood? I think that if you cannot see well you have a harder time building up neural models of your environment. And I think this would be a reason I do not play fast video games well along with my low dexterity. I cannot type, I hen peck and I would think this would also be a developmental handicap with vision if the analogy holds. I never spent that much time on my sensory modalities, I read lots of books.
 

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I was thinking that my vision got worse because after I got them I would read with them on. Before when I would look at the white board I guess that the teachers wrote at the size I could see but when I got the glasses I noticed I could see the leaves on the trees well riding in the car. Letters never got that small on the white board and so I am thinking that now I cannot even see letters the size I would see them when I was 15. I would guess that maybe when I was 12 I would see the leaves, I do not remember. Does vision get that bad in only 3 years? Or must it happen in childhood? I think that if you cannot see well you have a harder time building up neural models of your environment. And I think this would be a reason I do not play fast video games well along with my low dexterity. I cannot type, I hen peck and I would think this would also be a developmental handicap with vision if the analogy holds. I never spent that much time on my sensory modalities, I read lots of books.

I haven't really studied vision extensively, you can probably Google to get some basic info.

At any point where your eyes begin to change shape and light doesn't focus on the right spot, your vision would deteriorate. This can happen for various reasons. The old stories about not eating enough carrots or reading at night doesn't really impact vision when you're young; that's my understanding.

I'm to the point now where my vision seems clear, yet at the same time can become blurry (it's hard to explain), some of it is improved when I blink my eyes a lot (so they could be drying out, maybe connected to my LASIK some years back?); I think it's also possibly the onset of older age deterioration, mostly caused by strain in the eye muscles (I think) and the eye can't adjust / focus on things as easily. But I wouldn't think you'd be getting that yet.

Anyway, there are also potential eye issues that you'd need a doctor to check for you.

as far as being bad at video games -- you're talking about a lot of interacting body systems at that point, I can't really guess whether it's due to eyesight, or simply not having fast reflexes, or thinking/processing versus just reacting to things you are seeing, etc. i.e., a lot of potential variables I could see contributing to that. What are your normal reflexes like? Are you capable of playing sports, throwing/catching balls, etc.? Can you juggle? Do you find it easy to drive a car, if you do? What about bike riding? Can you respond quickly to things and with coordination?
 

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as far as being bad at video games -- you're talking about a lot of interacting body systems at that point, I can't really guess whether it's due to eyesight, or simply not having fast reflexes, or thinking/processing versus just reacting to things you are seeing, etc. i.e., a lot of potential variables I could see contributing to that. What are your normal reflexes like? Are you capable of playing sports, throwing/catching balls, etc.? Can you juggle? Do you find it easy to drive a car, if you do? What about bike riding? Can you respond quickly to things and with coordination?

I can ride a bike fine and play sports but I can not juggle and I do not drive. Mostly it is because I have bad dexterity, I am fine at psychological games and games on the wii because those games require the whole body. I have had really bad anxiety in the past and when I try to comprehend some situation my peripheral vision focus lessens, both have become better recently.
 

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If i had a bit more money i'd just buy new glasses that are slightly weaker, get used to them, repeat ... it's only 40 bucks online.

We don't have to be slaves to the doctor's prescription. You can easily adapt to glasses that are slightly off from the prescription. If they prescribe really fancy stuff like zylinders or whatever, you might just be able do without them. I mean look through reading glasses from the supermarket and see how you feel about them. They are super shitty. But can give you an impression of how much your eyes may be able to adapt.

Think about how fast a person looses their muscles when they sit in a wheelchair. It's not at all surprising, that you loose the adaptive powers of your eyes, when you wear glasses all of the time. Even i am gradually loosing over the years, even though i only wear my glasses at the computer. I only sit at the computer all day long ... I am far sighted. Far sighted people have stronger adaptive abilities due to how the muscle simply has to contract the lense or so i recall reading once. I'm not sure if near sighted people can adapt at all?
 

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I started wearing glasses (I wear them on and off depending on the activity) when I was around 17, probably due to too much time on the computer. I did move a bit so the computer was the only identity anchor I had at the time. I do remember my eyes being better when I was younger though, I definitely noticed they were getting worse as I did more solitary activities.

I don't think wearing glasses affect development, it's probably more likely that development led you into wearing glasses.

And speaking of eyes improving, my eyes did become stronger when I was away from the computer for a long time during the military, so I'm inclined to think that it's like a muscle that needs exercise in order for it to improve. I think a little more Se activities and less Ti/Si/I stuff would help.
 
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