Playing and trying to make interactive fiction includes hours of reading from a screen. Having bought prescription glasses for the first time last year, I wonder if the majority of the forum members wear glasses or not.
There are lots of other reasons in addition to screen usage that weaken eye power, but I think long hours of screen usage certainly affects it.
I do have a prescription, but my vision problems later turned out to be ADHD-related, so I don’t really wear the glasses.
Yeah, really thick frames. I don’t wear contacts because it would be far more expensive to get them tailored to my prescription and astigmatism on an ongoing basis. (Also they are not lab safe.) My ophthalmologist says if it weren’t for my hemophilia, he would have suggested getting LASIK once my prescription settled as a part of the ageing process, but as it stands, that’s not really an option. I can’t function without my glasses, because I can’t see someone’s face if they’re sitting across from me, or words on a book page, and I have to shove my phone all the way into my face when I’m laying about in bed on it, etc.
We will see later where this leads, but now (with 8 voters) the rate is 88% wearing glasses, which is a high value.
I wear glasses since I am 7 or maybe even earlier. I am short-sighted (which means I need glasses for far things). Unfortunately some years ago I started to be far-sighted, too (needing glasses for near things). So I have two pairs of glasses. I know there are glasses with both near and far sight, but I never tried such.
I have mild vision problems (one eye is blurry/weak, the other one picks up the slack) and my optometrist recommended some “comfort glasses”, but I haven’t been able to get them yet! For now I can still function fine bare-eyed.
I used to wear glasses as a kid/teen, but don’t anymore, so neither poll option fits me!
(The eye doctor told me I’m essentially a one-eyed person, because my right eye is so weak that my brain relies almost entirely on my left eye. Glasses with a prescription for the right wouldn’t help because at this point my brain is trained to only use the left!)
I’m short-sighted, weak-ish prescription, but I can’t see small words on a wall 3m away from me. I all started when I’d read books for 30 minutes in dark lighting every day despite being told not to. 
Funny how many people here need glasses!
I’ve been horribly nearsighted since I was about 13 and have always worn glasses, except when I had Lasik, which gave me 10 years of perfect vision before reverting. I wouldn’t do it again.
Weirdly, my distance vision is improving while my close vision is going to shit. Last month the eye doc prescribed bifocals but I cannot express how much I hated them, so took them back in for regular lenses and I’m just going to have to be that person who switches glasses all the time. The Kindle really helps with reading because I can increase the font, and since my distance vision has been improving, I really only wear glasses now for driving or watching TV/movies.
10 years seems like good amount of time! Was it a real hassle to get done?
I can’t see well far, and even then I rarely use them anyway cause I don’t feel like it usually 
Exception being: driving, at the movies/watching TV, when the computer screen is too far from me…
I discovered that prescription eye values are not suitable for computer work. Like when you are 1-2 ft away from a screen. Instead you want correction for intermediate vision. I found by dropping about half a diopter from your eye prescription works quite well - for myopia .
It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life, with your eye in that clockwork-orange contraption and your head strapped down and a banging machine scraping your eyeball. Painless, but terrifying. Afterwards it was amazing except for the fact that it gave me 2 whole years of feeling like I had gravel in my eyes a couple of times a week. No drops helped. It was really unpleasant. It was really depressing when it reverted, but I just resigned myself to being shackled to glasses after that.
I got glasses when I was seven or eight and probably needed them well before that, given that when I got them I was shocked to realize that you were supposed to be able to make out individual leaves on trees and whatnot. So I don’t think screens are to blame in my case, although I believe there’s a link between nearsightedness in children and spending a lot of time indoors, which I certainly did.
Well damn. From now on I’ll always picture you as Malcolm McDowell. It’s disturbing.
They didn’t show me torture porn, but that’s about the most positive thing I can say about the experience.
My family and I never realized I was nearsighted until I mentioned not being able to read scoreboards, and they said that wasn’t normal. But I didn’t get glasses until my first year of college, when my father was going to a conference in Japan and I had the opportunity to go with. I don’t remember if there was actually any link between the timing of the glasses and the trip, but I do remember anxiously hoping they’d be done before we had to leave.
And that’s when I learned that people can actually see individual leaves on trees, and that stars actually do seem to have little points on them!
Same! It was eye-opening. I saw the world in a whole new way.
Stars have points?!
(I have lived in cities since I was… what, since forever I guess? And if I ever go stargazing in the forest it was either before I realised I needed glasses or I forgot my glasses, so… damn!)
I read with my left eye which is short range. Farther on, I use both eyes, but my right eye is having trouble seeing things too near.
But I remember the time where my vision worsen that I need glasses. It was when I was deep coding in computer lab at school that I spent 18 hours on it. Didn’t finished until 4 am. 2 days later, I started seeing blurry faraway things.
The one thing I learn later, is that I can train my eyes to focus at certain distance, so I habitually, purposely, practicing to look at near and far objects to retain flexibility of the eyes. Stretching the eyes, so to speak.
I wouldn’t do Lasik. You’re basically scarring the cornea where there’s no blood flow. No guarantee that it will heal perfectly. You may get lucky, or you may not. I wouldn’t wear contact lens, either. That’s basically putting on a piece of glass onto your eyeballs!
Well, maybe it’s better now, but I’m okay with eye glasses.
Yeah! There’s a reason people draw them that way, it turns out!