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With regards to the near-sighted/far-sighted distinction, do the rates of each vary by age? Common knowledge seems to indicate that many people develop far-sightedness later in life.

No kidding

It's probably only 50/50 if you include all the older people who became far-sighted during middle age. In terms of younger people, the vast majority are near-sighted.

Been wearing glasses since I was 12. Very nearsighted(cant see things that are farther away) in left eye 200/20 ( or is it 20/200?), 30/20 in the right. I am told my brain just ignored the left eye before i got glasses.

I'm getting new lenses soon. I like the frames i have now and really just need to go get the lenses replaced, i dropped them a year or so ago and they got a gash in them..

I'm extremely nearsighted and have worn corrective lenses of one type or another since I was seven years old.

Patricia

I have been wearing glasses for about 2 1/2 years now.

I'm nearsighted and have been wearing glasses for about ten years now. I need the glasses for distance vision, but can't wear them to read or do any kind of close-up work; it hurts my eyes and, according to the eye doctor, could possibly damage them So I take them on and off as I need them.

I wear glasses
I think it's due to this medication I took for 6 years...it's a side-affect!

I wear glasses, but I'm *hopefully* getting LASIK surgery this summer to fix my eyes (I hate contacts).

I, too, have the so-called "lazy" eye. (I say "so-called" because I don't believe eyes are truly "lazy" in the way we use that word in ordinary speech and writing. In my mind, the "laziness" is a difference in function, but does not correspond to what usually comes to my thoughts when I see or hear the word "lazy.")

I first started wearing glasses when I was a boy just 5 years old. During most of elementary and middle school, I was able to get by pretty easily without wearing them, though I did wear a patch for the "lazy" eye and the doctor recommended wearing the glasses, too, as a help for that condition. When I was in high school and my world expanded considerably, I needed to wear my glasses a lot more often and by the time I entered college, I wore them pretty much full time and have since then.

I wore soft contact lenses successfully for 5 years with no problem at all. However, when I started law school, my days started so early in the morning and ended so late in the evening that the lenses became uncomfortable for all-day wear. Also, right around that time, my seasonal allergies started getting worse, so unfortunately, I had to go back to glasses. I've worn contact lenses for a few short periods (about 6 months each) since then, but have kept going back to glasses for comfort reasons.

Oddly, though, I am now 44 years old and have no trouble whatsoever reading even the smallest print. That's a little strange, but it's certainly nothing to complain about!

I realize we're a self-selecting group here, but the prevalence of the "lazy" eye condition among us is startling. As a few of us have remarked, I am wondering if there is a connection between that phenomenon and Asperger's or autism spectrum.

Have to wear contacts. The refraction is so high that glasses give me headaches.
-11 diopter.
Snellen acuity scale doesn't really apply here... I'd be about 20/2000.

i have a severe atigmatism in my left eye (which is also my dominant eye)
I am very used to not wearing glasses..i don't like having something on my face and i rely alot on my periphrial vison....
I wear glasses, but currently, they are broken.

WOW, SMART DOCTOR! Most are like MY doctors and say you SHOULD wear them all the time. My vision went from 20/25 to one estimate of 20/200! Without glasses, I am actually LEGALLY BLIND, according to the dept of motor vehicles. They define blind as anything worse than 20/50. Each degredation came after the next pair of glasses. 28 years with NO glasses, and 3 pairs within the past 8 years!

MY theory, backed up by actual anecdotes and some studies, is that the eyes get relaxed and weaker and fail to focus. The eyeglasses THEN go from mere correction to compensating for a problem they created.

So I would say LISTEN to YOUR current doctor!

I have worn glasses since I was 4 years old and extremly long sighted I now where Contact Lenses which I prefer to wear.

Wearing glasses since I was 19.

I could always read the bottom row of letters perfectly as a child. My eyesight is still fine (I havent tested if I can still read the bottom row for years), but I wouldnt be surprised if it is gradually degenerating due to age and using microscopes and computers all the time. I guess I will probably need glasses to read with when I get old.