Short sighted and myopia are two different things. Short sighted is physical, myopia is mental/emotional. Another word for myopia is tunnel vision (which can also be neurological, I have had tunnel vision when sleep deprived.
But a myopic person, does not see the periphery, other facts, phenomenon, a new word for it is laser focused, but not on problem solving, but on observing.
As an example, I encounter people who see racism as the problem, the only problem, the problem to be solved, and get angry when it is mentioned that it is a subset of classism which in itself a subset of patriarchalim under which falls genderism, classism, sexism and the whole swath of social ills.
I was easily the most outdoor active of my school friends- walking, riding, just being in the outside. From Easter til October I was nearly always outside. I was also the most short sighted of them all.
Interesting. I had wondered if the trend was also possibly related to the increase in physical growth of humans as diets improved, maybe somehow outpacing evolutionary adaption in the last century? So eyeballs growing too big for their boots(!) and distorting vision.
Re screen time were we not also poring over the written word, often in poor light, for much longer than screens until very recently? But that's perhaps when this all started and smartphones are now accelerating the trend at scale.
It's a topic close to my heart having been shortsighted since age 10/11, an avid reader and now scientist (lots of screen time at work and play from teens as a young computer enthusiast). Then unfortunately a retinal detachment at age 49. Thankfully the emergency surgery was completely successful (to reassure if you are unlucky) and I recovered to 20-20 vision once more, with a simple cataract procedure to follow 3 years later.
Short sighted and myopia are two different things. Short sighted is physical, myopia is mental/emotional. Another word for myopia is tunnel vision (which can also be neurological, I have had tunnel vision when sleep deprived.
But a myopic person, does not see the periphery, other facts, phenomenon, a new word for it is laser focused, but not on problem solving, but on observing.
As an example, I encounter people who see racism as the problem, the only problem, the problem to be solved, and get angry when it is mentioned that it is a subset of classism which in itself a subset of patriarchalim under which falls genderism, classism, sexism and the whole swath of social ills.
I was easily the most outdoor active of my school friends- walking, riding, just being in the outside. From Easter til October I was nearly always outside. I was also the most short sighted of them all.
Interesting. I had wondered if the trend was also possibly related to the increase in physical growth of humans as diets improved, maybe somehow outpacing evolutionary adaption in the last century? So eyeballs growing too big for their boots(!) and distorting vision.
Re screen time were we not also poring over the written word, often in poor light, for much longer than screens until very recently? But that's perhaps when this all started and smartphones are now accelerating the trend at scale.
It's a topic close to my heart having been shortsighted since age 10/11, an avid reader and now scientist (lots of screen time at work and play from teens as a young computer enthusiast). Then unfortunately a retinal detachment at age 49. Thankfully the emergency surgery was completely successful (to reassure if you are unlucky) and I recovered to 20-20 vision once more, with a simple cataract procedure to follow 3 years later.
Fascinating