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12232
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Posted - 2010.01.13 04:31:00 -
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I'm 17 and wear glasses, I have done since I was about 10 years old. After several trips to the opticians over the past few years my eyesight has seriously deteriated and for those who know what I'm talking about my subscriptions are -6.5 in my left eye and -7.0 in my right eye.
The optician was so concerned with the rapid deteriation of my eyesight I had to be tested for diabetes type 2, which I was given the all clear for.
Whenever I am at the opticians after I come home with the results I always get the same nagging off my mother 'You need to stop playing computer games' 'You are stuck in front of that screen day and night' yata yata yata.
The optician said that computer monitors and playing computer games shouldn't have that much of an effect on the eyes, but does anything beg to differ? Curious on your guys' opinions.
Cheers
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Oventoasted
Fleetworks Primary.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 05:15:00 -
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I have been playing video games since I was 7 and I still have 20/15 vision in both eyes at 23. Also, I have a few friends that could say the same thing as far as there vision not getting any worse since they have been a child.
Sorry that your vision is getting worse dude. Eat more carrots maybe?
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.01.13 05:30:00 -
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I am 18, i wear glasses.. never in public though, only contacts.... er anyyway; my eyes are only -1.5 (both sides), and ive been on a computer for the last 8ish years straight.
I only recently got them though, 3 years ago. eyes have been steadily getting worse since then... OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY! Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Zaxana
The Edge Foundation Zenith Affinity
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Posted - 2010.01.13 05:39:00 -
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Do the following: 1. Maintain 1 meter distance from your eyes to your monitor. 2. Blink at least 15 times every minute. 3. Every 30 minutes, remove glasses, look away from your computer outside a window or some far off object/place in the vicinity. Try squinting your eyes to get a clearer vision of the far off object.
This should keep your eyes healthy.
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.01.13 06:59:00 -
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Originally by: Zaxana Do the following: 1. Maintain 1 meter distance from your eyes to your monitor. 2. Blink at least 15 times every minute. 3. Every 30 minutes, remove glasses, look away from your computer outside a window or some far off object/place in the vicinity. Try squinting your eyes to get a clearer vision of the far off object.
This should keep your eyes healthy.
1 meter? what? I could hardly reach my keyboard from that far away.
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Akita T
Caldari Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.01.13 07:26:00 -
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Edited by: Akita T on 13/01/2010 07:34:25 _
I'm 32+, I sit "dangerously" close to monitors whenever I use them and always have (30-50 cm away usually, depending on how big the monitor is), have been staring at computer monitors or TV screens for longer than the OP has been alive, and I've been doing that for most of the day. I do my work on PCs, I get my entertainment on PCs, I'm basically using a PC from the moment I get up until I go to sleep, and on average it is very likely I have spent over 12 hours a day in front of a computer monitor for the past 15 years or so, and before that, a lot of time in front of a TV (where I also preferred to be relatively close). If you tally it all up, PC monitors (plus TV screens and whatnot earlier), you probably won't get a 100k hours total, but it will be pretty damn close to that.
I have excellent vision (probably better than most other people I know, even much younger people) up to around 2-3 meters or so, but beyond that it starts to get ever so slightly blurry, and at much longer distances I can also have trouble seeing a single image instead of two images very close to eachother (which makes the slight blurriness a bit worse). A strong squint however removes the blur and double image at long range completely and without problems.
I still DON'T need glasses to drive... actually, I don't need glasses for anything yet. Both my parents need glasses however (pretty strong ones too) both for short and long range, and have been using them for quite a long while... so you can't pin this on genetics alone either.
Long story short, whoever claims that simply staring at a computer monitor has any significant effect on eyesight is full of bull.
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Asuka Smith
Gallente Noir.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 07:51:00 -
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Long story short, 60hz will **** up your vision but 75hz+ will do nothing.
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Martin Mckenna
D00M. Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 09:46:00 -
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I took a dump in my eyes. Ever since then I can see ****. ---------------------
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Deviana Sevidon
Gallente Panta-Rhei Butterfly Effect Alliance
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Posted - 2010.01.13 10:07:00 -
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Interesting time for this thread. Are you trying to get evidence on other people getting blind after playing Video Games?
Linkage
Quote: Disclaimer: All mentioned above contains my opinion and is therefore an absolute truth (for me anyway, my universe, muhahaha.....ok, done
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Karma
Vortex Incorporated
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Posted - 2010.01.13 11:09:00 -
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I've been wearing glasses since I was 5... got my first computer when I was 8 (atari 520st) ... the last time I went to the optician, my eyesight had actually improved from the second to last visit...
and I've done basically nothing but game the last ten years (been working in a gaming-store, getting to know the merchandise).
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Benco97
Gallente Shadow Veil Industrial
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Posted - 2010.01.13 11:47:00 -
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The first computer I owned was an Amstrad CPC464, the first model. I had the green phosphor monitor which I used for a great amount of time until I upgraded to the full colour monitor a good while later. Moved onto an IBM 486 DX with XGA CRT monitor at 60hz, used for several years no problems.
These days I use a "normal" desktop computer and have an iZ3d stereoscopic monitor, still no eye problems.
Perhaps I'm just lucky, who knows. ______________________________________________
Originally by: P'uck
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Clone 1
Ministry of Mojo
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Posted - 2010.01.13 11:52:00 -
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28years of computer geekness and still no glasses needed. All my family wear glasses.
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Blane Xero
Amarr The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2010.01.13 13:10:00 -
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17 years old. Been gaming on consoles since I was around about 4 or 5 (When I got my Nintendo Entertainment System [NES version] which to this day I still own.)
Now on computers I've been gaming for, say, 5 years? I always sit relatively close (Closer than a meter anyway) And in all this time, my eyesight is no worse than it was when I was playing duckhunt (FFFFFIN DOG) back in 95/96 (Which even then was 10 years or so into its legacy )
Also on an unrelated note, I must now go celebrate my NES's 25th birthday. Christ my console is older than me. _____________________________________ Haruhiist since December 2008
Originally by: CCP Fallout :facepalm:
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Gariuys
Evil Strangers Inc.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 13:27:00 -
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Originally by: 12232 I'm 17 and wear glasses, I have done since I was about 10 years old. After several trips to the opticians over the past few years my eyesight has seriously deteriated and for those who know what I'm talking about my subscriptions are -6.5 in my left eye and -7.0 in my right eye.
The optician was so concerned with the rapid deteriation of my eyesight I had to be tested for diabetes type 2, which I was given the all clear for.
Whenever I am at the opticians after I come home with the results I always get the same nagging off my mother 'You need to stop playing computer games' 'You are stuck in front of that screen day and night' yata yata yata.
The optician said that computer monitors and playing computer games shouldn't have that much of an effect on the eyes, but does anything beg to differ? Curious on your guys' opinions.
Cheers
It's quite normal ( for the shortsighted anyway ) to have really big jumps. I'm pretty stable now ( 28 years old ) at about -9.0 last new glasses I got my eyes had actually improved a little again. But I've had huge jumps in very short time periods had a jump of -2 in less then a year. You really have start worrying if you go over -10, or when it continues after you turn 18/19.
But if you're really worried about, lenses can have a positive effect. I used them for several months before I got fed up with all the hassle. But it did improve my eyes by 0.5
I really don't understand why people think that there would be any difference in watching a monitor vs anything else. And it's got crap all to do with refresh rate either. The only thing refresh rate can affect is your brain, and then pretty much only if you're sensitive to it.
What is kinda important is the distance between you and the object you spend a lot of time looking at. If you spend all day, every day looking at stuff 20 centimers from your face, your eyes are gonna improve in looking at that distance at the cost of other distances. ( which is the same thing as being short sighted ).
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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 15:16:00 -
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Originally by: 12232 I'm 17 and wear glasses, I have done since I was about 10 years old. After several trips to the opticians over the past few years my eyesight has seriously deteriated and for those who know what I'm talking about my subscriptions are -6.5 in my left eye and -7.0 in my right eye.
The optician was so concerned with the rapid deteriation of my eyesight I had to be tested for diabetes type 2, which I was given the all clear for.
Whenever I am at the opticians after I come home with the results I always get the same nagging off my mother 'You need to stop playing computer games' 'You are stuck in front of that screen day and night' yata yata yata.
The optician said that computer monitors and playing computer games shouldn't have that much of an effect on the eyes, but does anything beg to differ? Curious on your guys' opinions.
Cheers
I think that as everyone's eyes are different, you should not take any risks.
Eye-strain is real.
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Calvin Firenze
Minmatar Nex Exercitus IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.01.13 18:45:00 -
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I'm 25 and I've had to wear glasses since I was 14. I've been around computers and playing video games most of my life. My first computer was a Tandy something or other when I was 7. (DOS and monochrome green screen ftw) I got a Nintendo for Christmas when I was 6.
I can't blame video games though, everyone in my family is nearsighted. The thing that sucks for me though, is even on my 24" monitor, I can't read the chat windows in eve without my glasses. They get a little too blurry.
Chances are its genetic even if your parents have perfect eyesight, they both might have had the recessive gene for your bad eyesight and when they had you it brought the recessive genes together to make it dominant.
Originally by: Xanos Blackpaw some people need to have the stupid beaten out of them
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Jago Kain
Amarr Ramm's RDI Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2010.01.13 18:58:00 -
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I think possibly that you are looking in the wrong direction, if you'll pardon the pun, or even coming at this from the wrong perspective if you will.
I can't help noticing that the deterioration in your eyesight started realtively recently and as everyone know, there is one habit that teenage males like to indulge in that can lead to loss of eyesight. Honestly; a bloke down the pub said it was true.
Now, with the advent of easily available internet **** (no more sneaking about trying to look taller and older in the Newsagents whilst trying to purchase Escort's "Reader's Wives Special") both computer monitors and spanking the monkey can be combined.
However, there is an easy test to work out which one is killing your eyesight. Have you checked you palms for hair yet?
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Elora Danzik
Caldari Idiots In Spaceships Psychotic Tendencies.
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Posted - 2010.01.13 19:57:00 -
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seeing as how I discovered I was "legally" blind in 3rd grade(20+) years ago. I don't know what its like not to have corrective lenes of some type.
I do know that contacts "wear out" my eyes faster then glasses when working on computers constantly. Probably do to decreases in blink rate and contacts drying out.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2010.01.13 20:44:00 -
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I have had glasses for quite a while, didn't really need them ended up getting contacts about 4 years later, been wearing them for the last 10 years now.
I had slight declines every so often, then my eyesight was amazingly stable for like 4 years, and went down a bit recently.
so well who knows
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Chilton Haynes
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Posted - 2010.01.14 05:19:00 -
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linkage |
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Akita T
Caldari Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.01.14 11:37:00 -
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Originally by: Chilton Haynes http://www.natural-vision.co.uk/faq.htmlinkage
You mean, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method Linkage ? Meh...
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente Azteca Transportation Unlimited Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.01.14 20:57:00 -
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Originally by: 12232 I'm 17 and wear glasses, I have done since I was about 10 years old. After several trips to the opticians over the past few years my eyesight has seriously deteriated and for those who know what I'm talking about my subscriptions are -6.5 in my left eye and -7.0 in my right eye.
The optician was so concerned with the rapid deteriation of my eyesight I had to be tested for diabetes type 2, which I was given the all clear for.
Whenever I am at the opticians after I come home with the results I always get the same nagging off my mother 'You need to stop playing computer games' 'You are stuck in front of that screen day and night' yata yata yata.
The optician said that computer monitors and playing computer games shouldn't have that much of an effect on the eyes, but does anything beg to differ? Curious on your guys' opinions.
Cheers
Myopia
As for what you're describing, I had the same thing, during puberty growth-spurts I went from around -3.5 to -7 (both eyes) in a little over a year.
Little to do with watching lots of TV/Computer screens (at least in my case, I didn't do much of either at that age), and more with the structure of your eyes and lenses. Basically the lens is to strong or the eyeball is to long, and I believe that both effects are increased when you grow. Hence in a period of rapid growth, the decline speeds up dramatically.
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Renagaide Tempest
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Posted - 2010.01.15 00:03:00 -
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i had a wreck crushed my right eye slid on the pavement at 70mph busted my right cheekbone off and ground off a bunch of my face had a orbital floor blowout, so the structure that supports my eye, doesn't. so i see double when i see. it varies from day to day. ground off my finger tips, and a bunch of my leg. Busted a few of my teeth when my skull hit the pavement and chomped through my lips and tongue.
but after reading your troubles i feel so much better. lifes hard man.....but it's good. fears way worse than any reality see if she'll let you get a motorcycle.....
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Koro Sarum
Amarr PURE.
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Posted - 2010.01.15 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: Renagaide Tempest i had a wreck crushed my right eye slid on the pavement at 70mph busted my right cheekbone off and ground off a bunch of my face had a orbital floor blowout, so the structure that supports my eye, doesn't. so i see double when i see. it varies from day to day. ground off my finger tips, and a bunch of my leg. Busted a few of my teeth when my skull hit the pavement and chomped through my lips and tongue.
but after reading your troubles i feel so much better. lifes hard man.....but it's good. fears way worse than any reality see if she'll let you get a motorcycle.....
Well Im very sorry for you but if you really have to be such a jackass that when someone tells you about there problems and asks for help you tell them how much worse your life is and then tell them to go out and hurt themselves you truly deserve what happened (or didnt ) happen to you
or your trolling in which case 0.5/10
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Zakarazor
Amarr Inadeptus Mechanicus
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Posted - 2010.01.15 09:28:00 -
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I raise your -6,5 and -7 with my -13 and -15,5.
And no, games don't affect eyesight in that way. It's purely genetic.
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente Azteca Transportation Unlimited Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.01.15 16:33:00 -
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Originally by: Zakarazor I raise your -6,5 and -7 with my -13 and -15,5.
And no, games don't affect eyesight in that way. It's purely genetic.
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There is some evidence for environmental factors, but those tend to be minor.
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Drunk Driver
Gallente Aliastra
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Posted - 2010.01.15 16:36:00 -
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i'v e beeenn plaalaying viddoe gamkels for overr 30 yearss and ny eyesigghte is jusj fine.
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Blane Xero
Amarr The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2010.01.15 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Drunk Driver
i'v e beeenn plaalaying viddoe gamkels for overr 30 yearss and ny eyesigghte is jusj fine.
Your fingers on the other hand are slightly worse for ware. _____________________________________ Haruhiist since December 2008
Originally by: CCP Fallout :facepalm:
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Arestan
Rising Sun Inc.
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Posted - 2010.01.15 18:21:00 -
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The same story. I "lost" my eyesight when I started school and by age 9, I had -2 glasses. Then by grade 9 or 15 years of age, I had -6. That was before I had a PC or any real access to one. Has to be genetic, I guess. Went up to -8 four years ago and now at 26, just got new glasses and I am back to -5 and doctor made it clear that I need to make a new appointment in one year as the minus is decreasing at a rapid pace.
Go figure.
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Renagaide Tempest
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Posted - 2010.01.16 02:29:00 -
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I'd like to apologise for my post. I often forget that in posting, the voice or tone I imagine I'm replying in....well theres only the text, and you can't pick up what I think I've put between the lines. I am sorry to make light of your problem 12232. And hope you feel no anomousity towards me.
Honestly nearsightedness progresses pretty fast during the teen years, its generally genetic and your habits playing video games can have no lasting long term effects, now if you were TIG welding with a inadequate protective lens that would be another story, but my optical surgeon says that video games are not the cause of myopia or however you spell the fancy word for nearsightedness.
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