Ha! My parents also thought this was the case, I was a child before the internet and phones, my favourite hobby was playing around in the trees next to our soviet commie block.
I had an incredible childhood with building hidden dwellings in the woods, unsupervised fires and bicycle journeys, football, building ice castles etc, swimming and martial arts lessons. My parents even limited my TV time to 2h a day.
But I still had —1 myopia for every grade until 7th.
My analysis is that by that time I got into reading books - both science and fantasy, and then boom my eyesight was fucked.
>My analysis is that by that time I got into reading books - both science and fantasy, and then boom my eyesight was fucked.
When I became a heavy reader I speedran long sighted to short sighted. I think 4th grade I got my long sighted diagnosis. 5th grade I started lifting heavier books. By the end of 7th I had more or less the prescription for Myopia I have now.
I had an incredible childhood with building hidden dwellings in the woods, unsupervised fires and bicycle journeys, football, building ice castles etc, swimming and martial arts lessons. My parents even limited my TV time to 2h a day.
But I still had —1 myopia for every grade until 7th.
My analysis is that by that time I got into reading books - both science and fantasy, and then boom my eyesight was fucked.
Thank god for LASIK.