This might sound stupid, but will wearing glasses make my vision worse?!


Question:

This might sound stupid, but will wearing glasses make my vision worse?

I mean AFTER I take them off, obviously. I'm thinking that wearing glasses will make my vision weak, like how driving instead of walking would make your legs weak? Will NOT wearing glasses strengthen my vision? I don't wear my glasses all day, and only for things like watching TV or movies (I dont drive or anything, dont worry.) and I'm just wondering if it would really matter if i wore them all day or not.


Answers:

I don't understand why people are under the assumption that NOT wearing corrective lenses will IMPROVE their eyesight. That is a HUGE misconception.

I just answered this question from someone else:

Your eyes will continue to get worse, whether you wear the glasses/contacts or not. NOT wearing the glasses will cause you to squint, it will cause headaches, it will cause MORE eyestrain. Forcing your eyes to try to focus when they NEED help to focus, simply doesn't work. When you wear glasses your eyes adjust to seeing clearly - so when you take them off things seem blurry because your eyes actually PREFER to see clearly. Wearing corrective lenses does not make your eyes worse. Besides, what's so terrible about having to wear glasses or contacts? I can think of far less desirable things in life.

Some children who require glasses at a very early age, will often outgrow it...but will then need glasses again when as they get older. Children who have a lazy eye and if it is is caught early enough will often wear eye patches over their good eye in order to force the lazy eye to work properly. Or sometimes they will give the parents atropine drops to use which will dilate the good eye so they can't see as well out of it and the bad eye will be forced to work. There are also visual training exercises that can be done. The good eye winds up doing all the work, the bad eye gets lazy - hence the term "lazy eye". Sometimes surgery is required in order to correct it.

I mention this because a person posted an answer above me about her needing glasses as a child and then not needing them as she got older.




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