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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4015018, member: 27832&quot;]Cause and effect are a little muddy here, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started reading at age 2 or 3, and spent a whole lot of my childhood with my nose buried in books. I&#039;ve seen <i>claims</i> that you don&#039;t get nearsighted from spending too much time in close-focus, but from what I know about how eyes develop, it seems you&#039;d almost <i>have</i> to.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, do we gravitate to things like coin collecting because we&#039;re nearsighted? Are we nearsighted because we gravitate to things like coin collecting? <b>Maybe both</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do know <i>one</i> causal relationship: when laser corrective vision surgery started to become reliable and affordable, I thought long and hard about getting it. The idea of 20/15 or better vision without glasses was tempting. But did I want perfect vision for anything <i>far enough away</i> (which would get further away as I got older), or did I want perfect vision for <i>something I was holding in my hand</i>? I <b>decided</b> I&#039;d rather stay nearsighted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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