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Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas
Aging. Okay, perhaps if I were 50+, but I'm not, only 24. And when I say stronger prescription, I mean prescription lenses since I was not born with regular ol' 20/20 eye sight (far from it). Being a technology person (programmer), I spend a lot of my time on the computer. A aging person's eye sight will slowly deteriorate over time, but not at a rapid pace unless something's seriously or some other factor is at play (like backlit displays).
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It's worth noting (I'm not saying that this is your case, but it's still a point to consider) that myopia (also called short-sightedness) gets worse the more your body produces growth hormones. The human body has a peak in growth hormone production between age 17 and 23 (normally), so in that timespan if one suffers of myopia he is forced to change eyeglasses often, each time with stronger prescription. This happens independently from your reading habits and screen technology. Perhaps those things could make it a little worse, but it would happen even if a short-sighted person would never stare at a book or screen.
After age 23,
usually myopia stabilizes and sight degradation stops or at least slows down.
I don't know if other sight problems have the same behaviour, I know about myopia only because that's my own sight defect and my eye doctor explained this to me in detail.