I was outside a lot and still got myopia :3

My eyes have been terrible since 1st grade. My prescription got as high as 9s.

Then I got cataract surgery on one eye, and I can see nearly perfectly without glasses for the first time in my life. This summer, I'm getting the other one done, and I won't have to wear glasses anymore, for the first time in my life.

Anyway, the point is: As I was talking to the eye surgeon, and mentioned my bad eyesight, he told me why: I have the eyeballs of a man who is 7'2" tall, jammed into my 5'11" skull. Apparently, I have enormous eyes, which nobody has ever mentioned to me, other than one brief girlfriend who used to comment on my gigantic green eyes.

If I had to get something big from a 7'2" inch man, why did it have to be eyeballs?

Hold up now. I grew up in the 80s when we spent the whole day outside, and I wore thick ass lenses all through grade school.

If you get this type of short sight vision, you can train your eyes to get the vision back as this is caused by the eyes strength.

But if you have the type that has to do with your eye shape going outside will do nothing, and you can exercise it away

Near-sightedness

I spent 90% of my early childhood outdoors. Didn't work.

Is this really causation though? Could it not just be that kids that spend less time looking at screens are less likely to be short-sighted AND more likely to spend time outside?

I'm farsighted, so I can only conclude that I spent too much time outdoors as a kid. See Mom!?

One hour of outdoor time per day is not a modest increase

I was outside a ton when I was younger and I still have myopia. These things happen.

well, i can concur. my eyes have trouble adjusting to looking into the distance when i have spent hours in front of the screen. they adapt after a few minutes to hours though.

did not seem to help me. I guess I got the bad side of the coin flip.

but my electronic image generator makes bam bam noise, must spend more money for more RAM

YSK: The word is 'spent' not 'spend'.

"Also, while various theories such as increased light exposure, release of dopamine from retina, increased depth of field have been suggested to explain the protective effect of outdoor time, the mechanism remains to be elucidated"

Correlation is not causation.

LMFAO

My mom blamed us (me and my older brother) for "sitting too close to the TV"

She kept us mostly locked indoors in an apartment (besides going to school) from the beginning of my memory up till 8 years old.

Then we moved to the US and from 8 to 12 I was in school from morning (like 7 AM maybe? forgot the exact time) till like 6PM cuz she signed me up afterschool programs cuz she wanted to use it as free babysitting essentially so she can work longer...

And we cant go outside alone without adults.

In China it was "a lot of kidnappers on the street thay will traffic you and sell your organs"

In the US it was "if you go outside without an adult, CPS will take you away and you can't see mama again" (idk why mom spoke in 3rd person sometimes lol)

Yay! so... from birth to 12 I was indoors, either in school or at home, most of the time...

outdoor time was rare and only when parents have a day off or like the 15 minutes of recess in school...

that's basically our outside time...

In China we had maternal grandma that sometimes took us outside...

In the US, it was just mom, dad, older brother, and me (cuz grandma can't come yet, no visa yet)... So we had even less outside time... like parenrs had to work all the time...

But of course its always "too much screens!" to be blamed lmao

From 8 to 12 was when my nearsightedness really developed a lot.

I didn't understand why I had nearsigntedness at the time, but now looking back and analyzing my life, now it's so obvious why lol..

My older brother has like -9.00 or -10.00 in the nearsightedness thing. Its funny my parents called it like 900 or 1000 "degrees".... like it sounds so much scarier when they drop the decimal point and literally say: "you're about to have ONE THOUSAND DEGREES IN NEARSIGHTEDNESS! You're gonna GO BLIND!"