[ SECRET POST #2331 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2331 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[2NE1, AoA (Ace Of Angels), Wonder Girls and Sistar]


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[Community]


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[The Rap Critic]


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[Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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[Hannibal]


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[Resident Evil]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Eurovision]


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[Rodrigo y Gabriela]


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[Shingeki no Kyojin]


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[Hannibal]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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[requiem for a dream]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree and then I don't. Generally speaking if you start reading from a young age (which implies that you're gifted), your eyesight is going to suffer from it. Hell, I started reading at four and my eyesight was crap by 14 (and it's now been 10 years since I've started wearing glasses). While I do agree that the whole trope of glasses on a pretty girl being shorthand for her being a nerd (I would not call Bernie a geek, btw) is stupid and played out, I think it's got a realistic basis.

[(Anonymous)]

And there, incidentally, a correlative link between IQ and myopia. http://www.iovs.org/content/45/9/2943.full

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading at 2.5, have read actively my entire life, and don't need any form of vision correction.

[(Anonymous)]

Well thank got you set us all straight. I can throw away the glasses I've worn all my life now!

[(Anonymous)]

Uhh, sorry if I offended you for some reason? I just wanted to correct your generalized statement.

[(Anonymous)]

The beauty of general statements is that they apply to some general population. Not just you.

[(Anonymous)]

exactly, which is why that person is reminding you it's not true for everyone??

you kinda mad about someone on the internet saying they don't wear glasses.

[(Anonymous)]

oh nm nm i missed the part where you said you're gifted if you read young and you read at four, but other person read at two and a half, so now you mad bc you ain't special. carry on.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, 'scuse me, but I'm the OP of the original comment, and I have not been the anon answering you. It is kind of hilarious that you're accusing a random person of jealousy because they started reading at four and not 2.5. For all you know, that person was in fact reading as a fetus.

Anyway, I said "generally speaking" of this fact because of course I know there are exceptions. My mother started reading at four and hasn't had to wear classes until now, in her early fifties. Doesn't change the fact that reading voraciously from a young age is not that good for your eyes.

[(Anonymous)]

You're the exception, actually. Reading, no matter how voraciously, does not damage your eyes.

[(Anonymous)]

I get a little bit irked when someone makes a statement saying "A lot of people are this way..." and then someone else comes along and says "I'M NOT THO!" as if that renders person #1's argument invalid.

No one gives a fuck if you don't wear glasses even though you started reading in utero. For a lot of people, there's a correlation.

TNA

[(Anonymous)]

That only pisses me off when it's something like a group of black people saying "white people are horrible" when a white person has continued the white tradition of shitting on black people, and some white person comes along and says "I'm white and we're not all like that!!!" In this case, someone has made a statement that actually isn't an argument - it's just an incorrect statement with no scientific merit. If someone comes on FS and says "the world is flat," sorry, not going to cater to them.

[(Anonymous)]

And you don't think that outliers might mean your hypothesis is wrong? I've yet to find a study that shows a link between reading and eye trouble. You are making a preposterous statement backed up by very little fact and expecting people who are in direct contradiction to your broad statement to just accept your generalization because you and some nebulous "everybody" knows it to be true.

[(Anonymous)]

I have had optometrists tell me there is a correlation and I myself found that I stopped needing to get stronger glasses as soon as I finished school.

[(Anonymous)]

I think when people do that, it's not because they're trying to be different or anything. It's just that someone has made a generalized statement about something that applies to them, and they're chiming in because something about it is different for them.

Contradicting something doesn't necessarily mean that they're trying to disprove it or render it invalid. A knee-jerk reaction contradiction seems more detrimental than someone potentially being a special snowflake, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Not everyone who reads early is gifted.
2. Not everyone who is gifted reads early.
3. Reading doesn't cause myopia.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/01/myopia.causes/index.html

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

+2 Yeah, reading a lot and watching tv affecting eyesight is a myth.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, someone already said what I was going to say.

(Also, why would anyone assume that reading was bad for the eyes after a childhood of early and voracious reading?! I say that as someone who had that childhood AND has worn glasses since she was 14. After all, I could observe others not conforming to that trend.)

+1

[(Anonymous)]

spent the vast majority of my childhood devouring books and i still have 20/20 vision.

[(Anonymous)]

did you regularly read just after waking up, in dim light, etc.? because, just reading shouldn't damage your eyes if you're taking good care of them (unless you have something genetic, not getting a certain nutrient, etc.)

[(Anonymous)]

No, reading close and watching tv sitting close doesn't affect your eyesight. That's a myth.

[(Anonymous)]

Citation seriously needed. Google provided me with no studies backing that statement up that early reading age = glasses, and my personal experience directly contradicts that statement.
I hypothesize that your eye sight would have gone bad no matter how much or how early you started reading and you're mistaking coincidence with causation.

[(Anonymous)]

dude I started reading long before kindergarten and longed for glasses to the extent that I used to read in the dark as a child and I still have 20/10 vision.

[(Anonymous)]

I read obsessively all my childhood and didn't need glasses.

Once I started doing a computing degree, that's when my eyesight turned to shit.